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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2006
Evert Dijkstra, Fontaines, CH;
Francois Marquis, Oron-le-Chatel, CH;
Evert Dijkstra, Fontaines, CH;
Francois Marquis, Oron-le-Chatel, CH;
Phonak Communications AG, Murten, CH;
Abstract
There is provided a method for providing hearing assistance to a user (), comprising capturing audio signals by a microphone arrangement () and transmitting the audio signals by a transmission unit () via a wireless audio link () to a receiver unit (), analyzing the audio signals by a classification unit () prior to being transmitted in order to determine a present auditory scene category from a plurality of auditory scene categories, setting by a gain control unit () located in the receiver unit () the gain applied to the audio signals according to the present auditory scene category determined by the classification unit, and stimulating the user's hearing by stimulating means () worn at or in a user's ear according to the audio signals from the gain control unit ().