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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
May. 29, 2012
Applicants:
Yun-seo Ku, Seoul, KR;
Jong-keun Song, Yongin-si, KR;
Dong-wook Kim, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/12 (2006.01); A61B 5/0484 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/125 (2013.01); A61B 5/04845 (2013.01); A61B 5/6817 (2013.01); H04R 25/305 (2013.01); H04R 25/70 (2013.01); H04R 2225/39 (2013.01); H04R 2225/41 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to a hearing ability and a hearing aid using the same are described. The hearing aid outputs a sound to test a hearing ability of a user, to detect an electrical signal generated in a body of the user as a result of the output sound, amplifies the electrical signal detected by an electrode unit, and to determine an amplification ratio of a surrounding sound detected by the hearing aid based on characteristics of peaks of waveforms of the amplified signal.