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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Applicant:
Med-el Elektromedizinische Geraete Gmbh, Innsbruck, AT;
Inventors:
Stefan Strahl, Innsbruck, AT;
Cornelia Falch, Rum, AT;
Assignee:
MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH, Innsbruck, AT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 1/36032 (2013.01); H04R 25/505 (2013.01); H04S 2420/03 (2013.01);
Abstract
An audio-cochlear implant processor device for a hearing impaired listener is described. An input signal decoder decodes an audio input data signal into a corresponding multi-channel audio signal representing multiple audio objects. An audio processor adjusts the multi-channel audio output based on user-specific hearing impairment characteristics to produce a processed audio output to a cochlear implant audio processor with auditory scene analysis (ASA) cues for the hearing impaired listener.