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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2006
Gozde Unal, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Gozde Unal, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Tong Fang, Morganville, NJ (US);
Siemens Corporation, Iselin, NJ (US);
Abstract
An improved method of designing hearing aid molds is disclosed whereby regions of an ear impression model are identified as a function of a geodesic distance measure. According to a first embodiment, a canal point of an ear impression model is identified as that point having a maximum normalized geodesic distance as compared to all other points on the surface of the ear impression model. According to a second embodiment, a helix point of the ear impression model is identified as that point having a maximum normalized geodesic distance as compared to all points except those points in the canal region of the ear impression model. Finally, in accordance with another embodiment, a geodesic distance between a canal point and a helix point of an ear impression model is identified and a percentage threshold, illustratively 65%, is applied to that geodesic distance to identify a crus region.