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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1995
Jonathan Brandon Allen, Mountainside, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., Middletown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A 'loudness balance' procedure is used to determine the amount of dynamic range for syllabic compression loss in an individual's cochlea. In particular, an individual is asked to adjust a set of tone volumes, which are played to them, until the tone volumes sound equally loud. Based on the adjustments performed by the individual, a compression ratio is determined for that individual over at least one frequency band. The determined compression ratio is then subsequently used by a telecommunications system to provide an individual-specific sound enhancement in a telephone call. As a result, the individual-specific sound enhancement particularly compensates for an amount of hearing loss unique to that individual.