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Method of operating a hearing instrument based on an estimation of present cognitive load of a user and a hearing aid system

  • US 9,313,585 B2
  • Filed: 12/18/2009
  • Issued: 04/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A hearing aid system for obtaining an ambulatory electroencephalogram, EEG, comprising two hearing instruments and two or more electric terminals in the surface of a hearing instrument shell of the hearing instruments where the shell contacts the skin inside or outside the ear canal of a user;

  • the hearing instruments comprising;

    an input transducer for converting an input sound to en electric input signal, a signal processing unit for processing the input signal based on the obtained EEG to provide an input signal according to a user'"'"'s needs and providing a processed output signal, and an output transducer for converting the processed output signal to an output sound, the two hearing instruments adapted to communicate EEG signals by wireless transmission of the EEG signal from one of the two hearing instruments in one ear of the user to the other of the two hearing instruments in the other ear of the user.

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