Potential benefits and limitations of three types of directional processing in hearing aids

EM Picou, E Aspell, TA Ricketts - Ear and hearing, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate hearing aid users' performance on four
tasks across three types of directional processing implemented by the same pair of …

The effects of directional processing on objective and subjective listening effort

EM Picou, TM Moore, TA Ricketts - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2017 - ASHA
Purpose The purposes of this investigation were (a) to evaluate the effects of hearing aid
directional processing on subjective and objective listening effort and (b) to investigate the …

Method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance system using monaural audio signals

B Edwards - US Patent 8,208,642, 2012 - Google Patents
The present application provides method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance
system using a monaural audio signal input. The system, in various examples, provides …

Wireless system for hearing communication devices providing wireless stereo reception modes

JP Solum - US Patent 8,041,066, 2011 - Google Patents
The present subject matter relates to the wireless stereo reception of first and second audio
information by wireless hearing communication devices. One type of device which may …

Method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance system using monaural audio signals

B Edwards - US Patent 10,469,960, 2019 - Google Patents
The present application provides method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance
system using a monaural audio signal input. The system, in various examples, provides …

Wireless system for hearing communication devices providing wireless stereo reception modes

JP Solum - US Patent 8,515,114, 2013 - Google Patents
The present subject matter relates to the wireless stereo reception of first and second audio
information by wireless hearing communication devices. One type of device which may …

Quantization-aware binaural MWF based noise reduction incorporating external wireless devices

J Zhang, C Li - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For hearing-impaired listeners, both ambient noise suppression and binaural cues
preservation of directional sources are required, such that a complete spatial awareness of …

Method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance system using monaural audio signals

B Edwards - US Patent 9,036,823, 2015 - Google Patents
The present application provides method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance
system using a monaural audio signal input. The system, in various examples, provides …

Hearing assistance device ear-to-ear communication using an intermediate device

JP Solum, SP Flood - US Patent 9,774,961, 2017 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for relaying wireless
communication from ear-to ear for hearing assistance devices using an intermediate device …

Noise reduction system for hearing assistance devices

WS Woods - US Patent 8,737,653, 2014 - Google Patents
Disclosed herein is a system for binaural noise reduction for hearing assistance devices
using information generated at a first hearing assistance device and information received …