US 12,445,784 B2
Brain-inspired hearing aid method and apparatus, hearing aid device, computer device, and storage medium
Siqi Cai, Shenzhen (CN); and Haizhou Li, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (SHENZHEN), Shenzhen (CN); and SHENZHEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIG DATA, Shenzhen (CN)
Appl. No. 18/552,859
Filed by THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (SHENZHEN), Guangdong (CN); and SHENZHEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIG DATA, Guangdong (CN)
PCT Filed Dec. 30, 2022, PCT No. PCT/CN2022/143942
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 27, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2024/016608, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 25, 2024.
Claims priority of application No. 202210859184.1 (CN), filed on Jul. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0088809 A1, Mar. 13, 2025
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/40 (2013.01) [G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/16 (2013.01); H04R 25/507 (2013.01); H04R 2225/43 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A brain-inspired hearing aid method, executed by a hearing aid device, comprising:
acquiring a noisy voice signal in a complex acoustic environment where a hearing aid wearer is located, and an electroencephalogram signal and an eye movement signal of the hearing aid wearer;
performing decoding of the electroencephalogram signal to obtain a feature representation of a voice signal of an auditory attention target; the auditory attention target being a speaker that the hearing aid wearer pays attention to in the acoustic environment;
performing decoding of the eye movement signal to obtain an auditory attention orientation; the auditory attention orientation being an orientation that the hearing aid wearer pays attention to in the acoustic environment;
extracting the voice signal of the auditory attention target from the noisy voice signal in a complex acoustic environment based on the feature representation;
extracting a voice signal of the auditory attention orientation from the noisy voice signal in a complex acoustic environment based on the auditory attention orientation; and
fusing the voice signal of the auditory attention target with the voice signal of the auditory attention orientation to obtain a to-be-outputted auditory attention voice signal.