Sound processing based on a confidence measure
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1. A sound signal processing method, comprising:
- generating an electrical representation of a received sound signal;
determining a plurality of noise-component estimates for the received sound signal;
determining one or more confidence measures, wherein each of the one or more confidence measures is associated with at least one of the plurality of noise-component estimates and provides an indication of a reliability of the corresponding at least one noise-component estimate;
calculating a weighted sum of the plurality of noise-component estimates on the basis of the one or more confidence measures;
based on the weighted sum of the plurality of noise-component estimates, processing the electrical representation to provide a control signal; and
using the control signal to cause a stimulator component of a stimulating prosthesis to provide a stimulus to a recipient of the stimulating prosthesis.
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Abstract
A method for processing sound that includes, generating one or more noise component estimates relating to an electrical representation of the sound and generating an associated confidence measure for the one or more noise component estimates. The method further comprises processing, based on the confidence measure, the sound.
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19 Claims
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1. A sound signal processing method, comprising:
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generating an electrical representation of a received sound signal; determining a plurality of noise-component estimates for the received sound signal; determining one or more confidence measures, wherein each of the one or more confidence measures is associated with at least one of the plurality of noise-component estimates and provides an indication of a reliability of the corresponding at least one noise-component estimate; calculating a weighted sum of the plurality of noise-component estimates on the basis of the one or more confidence measures; based on the weighted sum of the plurality of noise-component estimates, processing the electrical representation to provide a control signal; and using the control signal to cause a stimulator component of a stimulating prosthesis to provide a stimulus to a recipient of the stimulating prosthesis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A sound signal processing method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of input signals, wherein each of the plurality of input signal represents one of a plurality of spectral components of a sound signal; for each of the plurality of input signals, determining (i) an energy of the input signal over a non-zero time period, (ii) a psychoacoustic importance of a spectral component represented by the input signal, (iii) one or more noise estimates, and (iv) at least one confidence measure, wherein each confidence measure provides an indication of a reliability of at least one of the one or more noise estimates, and wherein a high-value confidence measure is indicative of a more reliable noise estimate than is a low-value confidence measure; at least one of selecting or scaling a subset of the plurality of input signals based on at least (i) the energy of each of the plurality spectral components, (ii) the psychoacoustic importance of each of the plurality of input signals, and (iii) the at least one confidence measure for each of the plurality of input signals; based on the subset of the plurality input signals, generating one or more stimuli; and causing, with a hearing prosthesis, delivery of the one or more stimuli to a recipient. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A sound signal processing method, comprising:
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generating an electrical representation of a received sound signal; determining one or more noise-component estimates for the received sound signal; determining one or more confidence measures, wherein each of the one or more confidence measures is based on a standard deviation of a plurality of differences, during a non-zero time period, between the energy of the received sound signal and one of the one or more noise-component estimates, and wherein each of the one or more confidence measures provides an indication of a reliability of one of the one or more noise-component estimates, based on at least one of the one or more confidence measures, processing the electrical representation to provide a control signal; and using the control signal to cause a stimulator component of a stimulating prosthesis to provide a stimulus to a recipient of the stimulating prosthesis. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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