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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Advanced Bionics Ag, Staefa, CH;
Inventors:
Abhijit Kulkarni, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Leonid M. Litvak, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Aniket Saoji, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Bionics AG, Staefa, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 19/02 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2013.01); A61N 1/36032 (2013.01); G10L 19/0212 (2013.01); H04R 2225/025 (2013.01); H04R 2225/67 (2013.01);
Abstract
Among other things, enhancing spectral contrast for a cochlear implant listener includes detecting a time domain signal. A first transformation is applied to the detected time domain signal to convert the time domain signal to a frequency domain signal. A second transformation is applied to the frequency domain signal to express the frequency domain signal as a sum of two or more components. A sensitivity of the cochlear implant listener to detect modulation of each component is obtained.