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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2007
Applicants:
Fan-gang Zeng, Irvine, CA (US);
Hongbin Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Fan-Gang Zeng, Irvine, CA (US);
Hongbin Chen, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Cochlear implant performance is improved by extracting pitch information and encoding such pitch information into the processor of a cochlear implant. One embodiment of the invention is to explicitly extract the pitch and deliver it to the cochlear implant by co-varying the stimulated site and rate. Another embodiment of the invention is to implicitly encode the pitch information via a code book that serves as the carrier of stimulation in the cochlear implant.