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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2013
Advanced Bionics Ag, Staefa, CH;
Stefan Fredelake, Hannover, DE;
Advanced Bionics AG, Staefa, CH;
Abstract
An exemplary system includes a sound processor associated with a patient and a microphone (). The microphone is configured to detect an audio signal presented to the patient and output an output signal () representative of the audio signal. The sound processor is configured to 1) receive the output signal, 2) identify at least one temporal portion of the output signal that has a classification attribute associated with a reference signal, 3) determine () a signal characteristic value () associated with the at least one temporal portion, 4) determine () that a difference () between the signal characteristic value associated with the at least one temporal portion and a reference signal characteristic value () associated with the reference signal meets a threshold condition, the meeting of the threshold condition indicating that a quality level of the microphone is below an acceptable level and 5) perform a predetermined action associated with the quality level of the microphone.