Automated method of classifying and suppressing noise in hearing devices

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9364669
APP PUB NO 20130022223A1
SERIAL NO

13358377

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The claimed invention is directed to a real-time noise classification and tuning system for cochlear implant and other hearing device applications. The system is capable of automatically selecting the optimized parameters of a noise suppression algorithm in response to different noisy environments. The feature vector and the classifier deployed in the system to automatically identify the background noise environment are selected so that the computation burden is kept low to achieve a real-time throughput. The results reported herein indicate improvement in speech enhancement when using this intelligent real-time hearing device system.

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THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM210 WEST 7TH STREET AUSTIN TX 78701

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Gopalakrishna, Vanishree Bijadi Redmond, US 1 21
Kehtarnavaz, Nasser Plano, US 9 193
Loizou, Philipos C Plano, US 3 34

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