US 12,309,552 B2
Hearing device with dynamic neural networks for sound enhancement
Achin Bhowmik, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Daniel Marquardt, Eden Prairie, MN (US); and Deepak Kadetotad, Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Assigned to Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
Appl. No. 18/027,314
Filed by Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/047450
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 20, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/081260, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/092,583, filed on Oct. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0362559 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01)
CPC H04R 25/507 (2013.01) [G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 25/30 (2013.01); H04R 2225/41 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ear-wearable device, comprising:
an audio processing path that receives an audio signal from a microphone of the ear-wearable device and reproduces the audio signal at a receiver that is placed within an ear of a user;
a deep neural network (DNN) coupled to the audio processing path that performs speech enhancement on the audio signal; and
an audio feature detector operable to:
detect an audio change via the audio processing path that triggers a change of state of the DNN, the change of state affecting resource consumption by the DNN; and
apply the change of state to the DNN, the DNN performing the speech enhancement in the changed state.