Equipment for fitting a hearing and to the specific needs of a hearing impaired individual and software for use in a fitting equipment for fitting a hearing aid

• US 20070172088A1
• Filed: 03/09/2005
• Published: 07/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oticon A/S (William Demant Fonden)
• Original Assignee: Oticon A/S (William Demant Fonden)
• Inventors: Flynn, Mark, Olsen, Jes
• Granted Patent: US 7,664,279 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/70 Adaptation of deaf aid to hearing loss, e.g. initial electronic fitting

Abstract

The invention relates to equipment for fitting a hearing aid to the specific needs of a hearing impaired individual. The equipment comprising a computer or similar device with soft-ware, where the device has display means for visual display of data, data entry means for entering hearing aid programming data into the device, data storing means, and data output means for outputting programming data to the hearing aid. According to the invention means are provided for selecting simultaneous settings relating to two or more different parameters relating to the processing of sound in the hearing aid to be programmed.

Claims

1. Equipment for fitting a hearing aid to the specific needs of a hearing impaired individual, comprising a computer or similar device with soft-ware, where the device has display means for visual display of data, data entry means for entering hearing aid programming data into the device, data storing means, and data output means for outputting programming data to the hearing aid, wherein further means are provided for simultaneously selecting two or more different parameters relating to the processing of sound in the hearing aid to be programmed.

2. Equipment as claimed in claim 1, wherein the two or more different parameters of the hearing aid to be programmed which are simultaneously selected comprises a rationale and one or more of the following:

time constants of the compression, settings relating to vividness of automatic program shifts, settings relating to noise management and settings relating to adaptive directionality.

3. A software for use in a fitting equipment for fitting a hearing aid, the equipment comprising a computer having a display, where the software is adapted for controlling parameters of the hearing aid upon control of indicators in the software, where the indicators are visible on the display, wherein an indicator is provided for simultaneous control of two or more different parameters of the hearing aid.

4. A software as claimed in claim 3 wherein the parameters which are simultaneously controlled relates to a rationale and one or more of the following:

time constants of the compression, settings relating to vividness of automatic program shifts, settings relating to noise management and settings relating to adaptive directionality.