US 12,273,685 B2
Hierarchical environmental classification in a hearing prosthesis
Michael Goorevich, Naremburn (AU); Obaid Ur Rehman Qazi, Mechelen (BE); and Carl Puchner, Narraweena (AU)
Assigned to Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
Filed by Cochlear Limited, Macquarie University (AU)
Filed on May 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/318,978.
Application 18/318,978 is a continuation of application No. 17/731,832, filed on Apr. 28, 2022, granted, now 11,722,826.
Application 17/731,832 is a continuation of application No. 16/755,744, granted, now 11,337,011, issued on May 17, 2022, previously published as PCT/IB2018/057847, filed on Oct. 10, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/573,226, filed on Oct. 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0292060 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/50 (2013.01) [A61N 1/36036 (2017.08); H04R 25/75 (2013.01); H04R 2225/41 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hearing device, comprising:
one or more input elements configured to receive a plurality of sets of sound signals over a period of time;
a memory; and
one or more processors coupled to the memory and to the one or more input elements, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
process the plurality of sets of sound signals with a sound processing path to generate output signals for use in delivering stimulation signals to a recipient of the hearing device;
perform an environmental classification of a sound environment associated with each of a number of the plurality of sets of sound signals, wherein each environmental classification results in a classification output that represents the environmental classification for a corresponding set of sound signals; and
store each of the classification outputs in the memory to form a classification data set.