Sensing and Processing for Directional Hearing Aids

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议工作的目的是开发助听器的革命性技术，该技术将显着提高听力受损者在嘈杂环境中理解语音的能力。我们的重点是改进声学传感和信号处理技术，以尽量减少不需要的声音的影响。我们将通过高度协调的团队努力来实现这一目标，以确保系统每个功能的设计参数相互优化并兼容。这项工作可以被视为具有三个密切相关的技术开发领域：新颖的定向麦克风、新颖的光学电子读出器和新颖的信号处理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of the proposed effort is to develop revolutionary technology for hearing aids that will lead to a marked improvement in the ability of the hearing impaired to understand speech in noisy environments. Our focus is on improving the technology of acoustic sensing and processing of signals so as to minimize the influence of unwanted sounds. We will accomplish this by a highly coordinated team effort to ensure that the design parameters of each feature of the system are mutually optimized and are compatible. This effort may be viewed as having three closely interrelated areas of technology development: novel directional microphones, novel optical electronic readout, and novel signal processing.