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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Inventor:
Jon S. Kindred, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/505 (2013.01); H04R 25/305 (2013.01); H04R 25/554 (2013.01); H04R 25/453 (2013.01); H04R 25/552 (2013.01); H04R 2225/39 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01); H04R 2225/61 (2013.01); H04R 2460/03 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hearing assistance device for use by a listener includes a microphone, a receiver, and a processing circuit including a plurality of functional modules to process the sounds received by the microphone for producing output sounds to be delivered to the listener using the receiver. The processing circuit detects one or more auditory conditions demanding one or more functional modules of the plurality of functional modules to each performed at a certain level, and dynamically allocates computational resources for the plurality of functional modules based on one or more auditory conditions.