Portable Hearing Laboratory

便携式听力实验室

• 批准号: 9408714
• 负责人: Caslav Vojislav Pavlovic
• 金额: $ 37.42万
• 依托单位: BATANDCAT, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9408714
• 关键词: Acoustics; Algorithms; Binaural; Cellular Phone; Code; Communities; Computer software; Data; Device Designs; Devices; Ear; Elements; Engineering; Environment; Esthetics; Funding; Goals; Hearing; Hearing Aids; Individual; Laboratories; Left; Letters; Libraries; Light; Linux; Mechanics; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; Operating System; Output; Performance; Phonation; Procedures; Rage; Research Personnel; Running; Sales; Sampling; Scheme; Services; Side; Source Code; Stream; Telephone; Testing; Time; Touch sensation; Validation; Wireless Technology; design; hearing impairment; innovation; novel; open source; portability; prototype; signal processing; social stigma; software development; sound; tool

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has recently funded a number of projects (referred further to as “concurrent projects”) to develop portable signal processing tools that provide substantial computing power for real-time processing of the acoustic environment. The overarching goal is to provide a large group of researchers (”Community”) with the means to efficiently develop and evaluate, in collaborative multi-center environments, novel signal processing schemes, individualized fitting procedures, and technical solutions and services for hearing devices such as hearing aids and assistive listening devices. In the already funded project 1R01DC015429 (Hohmann and Pavlovic) our emphases is on developing open source code for real-time runtime environments for standard PC platforms with standard sound hardware (Windows and Linux operating systems) as well as for ARM platforms (Beaglebone black with 2/2- and 6/2-ch AD/DA (Linux)). Furthermore, to enable researchers to perform testing with small size wearables in the field, ARM Cortex®-M4 micro-controller support (i.e. library calls to the Cortex kernel routines) will be also included from July 1 2018. The purpose of this complementary project is to develop a portable, rigid, versatile and wearable platform featuring an ARM Cortex®-M4 processor and able to run software developed in the concurrent project of Hohmann and Pavlovic. This Portable Hearing Aid Community Platform (PHACP) consists of both hardware elements to provide the advanced desired functionality and software routines to provide the basic intra-device data flow (operating system) as well as interconnectivity with other devices such as telephones and remote microphones. What this projects brings is the only platform that is not only portable physically, but provides for all the features that researchers may need to empower or even conceive new algorithms. In addition, the company will launch the device for the sales into consumer market where it will provide for unprecedented performance by the hearing impaired individuals. Most importantly, the innovative stream of algorithms ported immediately by the researchers to the device would provide for a continuous and sustainable competitive advantage.

美国国家耳聋和其他沟通障碍研究所 (NIDCD) 最近 资助了一些项目（进一步称为“并行项目”）来开发便携式 信号处理工具，为实时处理提供强大的计算能力 声学环境。总体目标是提供一大批研究人员 （“社区”）具有有效开发和评估的手段，在协作多中心 环境、新颖的信号处理方案、个性化的安装程序和技术 助听器和助听设备等听力设备的解决方案和服务。 在已经资助的项目 1R01DC015429（Hohmann 和 Pavlovic）中，我们的重点是 为标准 PC 平台的实时运行环境开发开源代码 标准声音硬件（Windows 和 Linux 操作系统）以及 ARM 平台 （Beaglebone 黑色，带 2/2 和 6/2 通道 AD/DA (Linux)）。此外，为了使研究人员能够 在现场使用小尺寸可穿戴设备进行测试，ARM Cortex®-M4 微控制器支持 （即对 Cortex 内核例程的库调用）也将从 2018 年 7 月 1 日起包含在内。 这个补充项目的目的是开发一种便携式、刚性、多功能和 可穿戴平台，配备 ARM Cortex®-M4 处理器，能够运行开发的软件 在霍曼和帕夫洛维奇的同时项目中。这个便携式助听器社区 平台 (PHACP) 由两个硬件元件组成，以提供先进的所需功能 功能和软件例程提供基本的设备内数据流（操作 系统）以及与其他设备（例如电话和远程设备）的互连 麦克风。 该项目带来的是唯一一个不仅在物理上便携，而且提供 研究人员可能需要授权甚至构思新算法的所有功能。 此外，该公司还将将该设备推向消费市场，并在该市场销售。 为听力受损人士提供前所未有的表现。最重要的是， 研究人员立即将创新的算法流移植到设备上 提供持续且可持续的竞争优势。