METHOD FOR DETERMINING A FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF A HEARING APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED HEARING APPARATUS

• US 20100316227A1
• Filed: 06/10/2010
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Original Assignee: Siemens Medical Instruments Pte Ltd (WS Audiology A/S)
• Inventors: Schmid, Christoph Konrad
• Application Number:
  US12/813,033
• Publication Number:
  US 20100316227A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2205/041 Adaptation of stereophonic signal reproduction for the hearing impaired
• 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 25/505 using digital signal processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/70 Adaptation of deaf aid to hearing loss, e.g. initial electronic fitting

Abstract

A method determines a frequency response of a hearing apparatus in any acoustic environment situation as well as an associated hearing apparatus. Here the frequency response of the hearing apparatus is determined in dependence on at least one preset, user-independent frequency response and at least one user-dependent frequency response. As a result, a frequency response is advantageously prespecified to the user of the hearing apparatus in any acoustic environment situation, said frequency response being individually matched to said wearer.

Claims

1. A method for determining a frequency response of a hearing apparatus in any acoustic environment situation, which comprises the step of:

determining the frequency response of the hearing apparatus in dependence on at least one preset, user-independent frequency response and at least one user-dependent frequency response.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a user is a wearer of the hearing apparatus.

3. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises determining the user-dependent frequency response by means of audiological tests.

4. The method according to claim 3, which further comprises restricting a quantity of parameter settings offered during the audiological tests in order to determine the user-dependent frequency response in accordance with predeterminable criteria.

5. The method according to claim 3, which further comprises storing the user-dependent frequency response in the hearing apparatus.

6. The method according to claim 5, which further comprises storing the preset, user-independent frequency response in the hearing apparatus.

7. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises determining the frequency response of the hearing apparatus via a total of the preset, user-independent frequency response and a difference, weighted with a predeterminable weighting factor, between the user-dependent frequency response and the preset, user-independent frequency response.

8. A hearing apparatus for determining a frequency response in any acoustic environment situation, the hearing apparatus comprising:

a frequency response determination unit for changing the frequency response of the hearing apparatus in dependence on at least one preset, user-independent frequency response and at least one user-dependent frequency response.

9. The hearing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a storage unit for storing the preset, user-independent frequency responses and the user-dependent frequency responses, said storage unit connected to said frequency response determination unit.

10. The hearing apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a data input unit connected to said storage unit.

11. The hearing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a setting device for changing a predeterminable weighting factor by a wearer of the hearing apparatus, with the frequency response of the hearing apparatus being determined by way of a total of the preset, user-independent frequency response and a difference, weighted with the predefinable weighting factor, between the user-dependent frequency response and the preset, user-independent frequency response.

12. The hearing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the hearing apparatus is a hearing device.