US 11,792,576 B2
Estimating a battery life of a hearing instrument
Brantly Sturgeon, Burnsville, MN (US); and Dustin Degen, Waconia, MN (US)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed by Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/443,739.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/058,158, filed on Jul. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038827 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/396 (2019.01); G01R 31/3835 (2019.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/30 (2013.01) [G01R 31/3835 (2019.01); G01R 31/396 (2019.01); H04R 25/558 (2013.01); H04R 25/602 (2013.01); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H04R 2225/39 (2013.01); H04R 2225/55 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
determining, by a processing system, based on a set of input datapoints, a present state of charge (SOC) of a battery of a hearing instrument;
determining, by the processing system, a predicted agenda for the hearing instrument, wherein the predicted agenda comprises one or more future time segments and each of the future time segments corresponds to a device state of the hearing instrument in a plurality of possible device states; and
estimating, by the processing system, based on the present SOC and the predicted agenda, an amount of time remaining until a future SOC of the battery of the hearing instrument reaches a threshold.