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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroshi Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Gen Engineering Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
381 71 ; 1791 / ;
Abstract
A hearing aid in which input signals picked up through a microphone are divided to those of two or more frequency bands by means of a frequency division means, signal outputs of frequency band(s) in which noise signals are included are saturated or reduced by a compensating means such as compression or saturation amplifier, and mixed with signals of other signal of frequency band(s) which are not compensated, whereby ambient noises can be removed from voice sounds.