Hearing aid or hearing aid system with an operating device

• US 20050281424A1
• Filed: 05/26/2005
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH (Siemens AG)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH (Siemens AG)
• Inventors: Rass, Uwe
• Granted Patent: US 7,664,280 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/41 Detection or adaptation of hearing aid parameters or programs to listening situation, e.g. pub, forest
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/61 Aspects relating to mechanical or electronic switches or control elements, e.g. functioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/70 Adaptation of deaf aid to hearing loss, e.g. initial electronic fitting

Abstract

The operation of a hearing aid (10) or bearing aid system (10, 11) is to be improved. It is proposed here that the acoustic auditory environment in which the hearing aid (10) or hearing aid system (10, 11) is found is analyzed and one of the adjustment functions dependent on the relevant auditory situation is assigned to at least one control element (7; 12-15) as a function of the auditory situation detected in this way. The adjustment possibility of the hearing aid (10) is thereby restricted to the adjustment possibilities which are meaningful to the relevant auditory situation.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A hearing aid, comprising:

an input converter for acquiring an input signal and converting the input signal into an electrical signal;

a signal processing unit for processing the electrical signal;

an output converter for outputting an output signal;

an operating device having at least one control element for adjusting a parameter having an impact on at least one signal processing feature implemented in the signal processing unit; and

an analysis unit for performing a signal analysis on the input signal, wherein the control element is adapted to adjust a plurality of signal processing features based on the signal analysis.

8. The hearing aid according to claim 7, further comprising a memory unit for storing a plurality of parameters having an impact on a plurality of signal processing features implemented in the signal processing unit, the plurality of signal processing features related to a plurality of auditory situations, wherein

a subset of parameters is pre-selected from the parameters and retrieved from the memory unit based on the signal analysis, and

the control element is configured to only adjust such parameter included in the pre-selected subset of parameters.

9. The hearing aid according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of parameters related to one of the auditory situations is stored in the memory unit.

10. The hearing aid according to claim 9, wherein the one auditory situation is determined based on the signal analysis, and the pre-selected subset of parameters only includes the parameters related to the determined one auditory situation.

11. A hearing aid according to claim 7, wherein the operating device is a remote control.

12. The hearing aid system according to claim 11, wherein the analysis unit is included in the remote control.