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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2014
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Harikrishna P. Natarajan, Shakopee, MN (US);
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for allocating feedback cancellation resources for improved acoustic feedback cancellation for hearing assistance devices. In various embodiments, a hearing assistance device includes a microphone and a processor configured to receive signals from the microphone and process them according to a plurality of processing blocks. The processor is adapted to include an event detector that can provide detection of an event and an output to adjust one or more processing blocks of the overall process to more efficiently use resources of the processor for the event detected, in various embodiments.