US 12,262,181 B2
Apparatus and method for reverberation mitigation in a hearing device
Paul Reinhart, Minneapolis, MN (US); Tim Schoof, Minneapolis, MN (US); and Jingjing Xu, Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed by Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/099,471.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/301,528, filed on Jan. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0239634 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/505 (2013.01) [H04R 25/453 (2013.01); H04R 2225/41 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
detecting a reverberation condition affecting an electronic hearing device that receives sound from a microphone and provides amplified sound to an in-ear receiver, the reverberation condition predicted to impact clarity of the amplified sound;
determining a sound processing capability that will affect the reverberation, the sound processing capability applied to the amplified sound and comprising one or more of expansion processing, compression processing, and directionality processing;
in response to detecting the reverberation condition, performing at least one of enabling the sound processing capability with a reverberation mitigation setting if the sound processing capability is currently disabled or changing the sound processing capability to the reverberation mitigation setting from a default setting if the sound processing capability is currently enabled; and
removing the reverberation mitigation setting when the reverberation condition is no longer detected.