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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Inventors:
Kelly Fitz, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Brent Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/70 (2013.01); H04R 25/552 (2013.01); H04R 29/008 (2013.01); H04R 2225/41 (2013.01); H04R 2225/55 (2013.01); H04R 2460/07 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hearing assistance system for delivering sounds to a listener provides for subjective, listener-driven programming of a hearing assistance device, such as a hearing aid, using a perceptual model. The system produces a distribution of presets using a perceptual model selected for the listener and allows the listener to navigate through the distribution to adjust parameters of a signal processing algorithm for processing the sounds. The use of the perceptual model increases the potential of fine tuning of the hearing assistance device available to the listener.