US 12,231,857 B2
System and method for personalized sound modification
King Chung, Lisle, IL (US)
Assigned to Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL (US)
Filed by King Chung, Lisle, IL (US)
Filed on May 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/738,264.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/201,643, filed on May 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0369054 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/70 (2013.01) [H04R 25/502 (2013.01); H04R 2225/39 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for personalized sound modification, with a personal sound system having; (i) a user device which includes a processor, and computer readable medium; (ii) a microphone, connected to the user device; and (iii) a sound output device, connected to the user device; the method for personalized sound modification comprising: providing a user hearing profile including lower and upper limits of the user's auditory dynamic range at a plurality of sound frequencies, wherein the user hearing profile was prepared with the user device and the sound output device of the personal sound system; receiving a sound signal from the microphone of the personal sound system; separating the sound signal into a plurality of frequency channels with the user device of the personal sound system; amplifying or attenuating sound at frequencies in the sound signal which have a volume level outside the lower or upper limits of the user's auditory dynamic range from the user hearing profile, respectively, and forming with the user device of the personal sound system a modified sound signal with which the sound output device will produce sounds within the user's auditory dynamic range; and providing the modified sound signal to the sound output device of the personal sound system.