US 12,108,214 B2
Hearing device adapted to provide an estimate of a user's own voice
Jan M. De Haan, Smørum (DK); Mirjana Adnadjevic, Smørum (DK); and Svend Feldt, Ballerup (DK)
Assigned to Oticon A/S, Smørum (DK)
Filed by Oticon A/S, Smørum (DK)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,773.
Application 17/574,773 is a division of application No. 16/826,017, filed on Mar. 20, 2020, granted, now 11,259,127.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141598 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/405 (2013.01) [H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 25/604 (2013.01); H04R 2430/23 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hearing device adapted to be worn by a user and for picking up sound containing the user's own voice, the hearing device comprising:
an input unit comprising first and second input transducers for converting sound to first and second electric input signals, respectively, representing said sound;
wherein said hearing device is configured to provide that said first and second input transducers are located on said user so that the user experiences first and second, acoustically different, acoustic environments, respectively, when the user wears the hearing device; and
further comprising a processor connected to the input unit;
wherein the processor comprises one or more beamformers, each providing a spatially filtered signal by filtering and summing at least the first and second electric input signals; and
one of the beamformers is an own voice beamformer and wherein the spatially filtered signal comprises an estimate of the user's own voice.