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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2012
Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Plano, TX (US);
Vanishree Bijadi Gopalakrishna, Redmond, WA (US);
Philipos C. Loizou, Plano, TX (US);
Nasser Kehtarnavaz, Plano, TX (US);
Vanishree Bijadi Gopalakrishna, Redmond, WA (US);
Philipos C. Loizou, Plano, TX (US);
The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The claimed invention is directed to a real-time noise classification and tuning system for cochlear implant and other hearing device applications. The system is capable of automatically selecting the optimized parameters of a noise suppression algorithm in response to different noisy environments. The feature vector and the classifier deployed in the system to automatically identify the background noise environment are selected so that the computation burden is kept low to achieve a real-time throughput. The results reported herein indicate improvement in speech enhancement when using this intelligent real-time hearing device system.