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Hearing Agent and a Related Method

  • US 20090010466A1
  • Filed: 02/03/2006
  • Published: 01/08/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2006
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A portable hearing agent comprisingan audio sensor for transforming an acoustic signal into a representative electric signal,a processing unit configured, while in a training mode, to associate the sensed signal with a predetermined response, and, while in a recognition mode, to activate the predetermined response,an output module for alerting a user of the agent and indicating the acoustic signal via the predetermined response,an auditory feature extractor for determining auditory feature values of the sensed signal, said auditory feature values indicating presence or non-presence of predetermined auditory features, andan associative matrix configured to store, while in said training mode, weight values representing an association between said auditory feature values and a predetermined matrix output signal linked with the predetermined response, andwherein said processing unit is configured to input, while in said recognition mode, said auditory feature values to the matrix so as to evoke a predetermined matrix output signal that is an associatively best match, according to a predetermined criterion applying the weight values, to said input auditory feature values.

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