US 12,273,683 B2
Self-fit hearing instruments with self-reported measures of hearing loss and listening
Jingjing Xu, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Tao Wu, Edina, MN (US); Karrie Recker, Edina, MN (US); and Jeffery Lee Crukley, Milton (CA)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/603,872
Filed by Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/027484
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/214482, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/887,369, filed on Aug. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/835,886, filed on Apr. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0201404 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G16H 10/20 (2018.01); A61B 5/12 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/305 (2013.01) [A61B 5/123 (2013.01); G16H 10/20 (2018.01); H04R 25/70 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by a processing system, data indicating answers of a user of one or more hearing instruments to a questionnaire;
determining, by the processing system, an initial audiogram based on the answers, wherein determining the initial audiogram based on the answers comprises:
determining, by the processing system, a score corresponding to the answers;
determining, by the processing system, coordinate values corresponding to the score; and
determining, by the processing system, the initial audiogram based on distances between the determined coordinate values and coordinate values for a plurality of audiograms; and
performing, by the processing system, an initial fitting of the one or more hearing instruments based on the initial audiogram, wherein performing the initial fitting comprises setting, by the processing system, output parameters of the one or more hearing instruments to compensate for hearing loss associated with the initial audiogram.