US 11,812,223 B2
Electronic device using a compound metric for sound enhancement
Joao Felipe Santos, Montreal (CA); Tao Zhang, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Yan Zhao, Columbus, OH (US); Buye Xu, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Ritwik Giri, Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Assigned to STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed by STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/834,288.
Application 17/834,288 is a continuation of application No. 17/074,144, filed on Oct. 19, 2020, granted, now 11,363,390.
Application 17/074,144 is a continuation of application No. 16/170,858, filed on Oct. 25, 2018, granted, now 10,812,915, issued on Oct. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/577,903, filed on Oct. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0369046 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/50 (2013.01) [G10L 15/16 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01); G10L 25/84 (2013.01); H04R 25/507 (2013.01); A61N 1/36039 (2017.08); H04R 25/407 (2013.01); H04R 2225/41 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
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1. A system, comprising:
an electronic device configured to receive at least one sound, the electronic device comprising an ear-worn electronic device or a mobile communication device;
at least one sensor communicatively coupled to the electronic device, the at least one sensor configured to sense an input from at least one user of the electronic device in response to the received at least one sound; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the electronic device configured to enhance the at least one sound for the at least one user based on a compound metric using a neural network defining a compound metric model, the compound metric calculated using a perceptual metric and at least one sound metric selected from an engineering metric and a physiological metric, the engineering metric comprising a difference between an output signal and a desired signal.