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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Inventors:
Ivo Merks, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
John Ellison, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Assignee:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/40 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); H04R 25/43 (2013.01); H04R 25/505 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02166 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01); H04R 2410/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described herein is a technique by which a hearing may automatically switch between a directional microphone mode and an omnidirectional microphone mode base upon an estimate of the noise floor as derived from the input signal. A minimum statistics estimator may be used to estimate the noise floor.