Technology to support deployment of intelligent audio devices to function indepen

支持部署智能音频设备以独立运行的技术

• 批准号: 8991917
• 负责人: Caslav Vojislav Pavlovic
• 金额: $ 21.26万
• 依托单位: BATANDCAT, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8991917
• 关键词: Address; Algorithms; Amplifiers; Architecture; Budgets; Caring; Cellular Phone; Communication; Complex; Computer software; Consumption; Custom; Devices; Environment; Evaluation; Family; Frequencies; Goals; Government; Health; Hearing; Hearing Aids; Hour; Individual; Intelligence; Link; Marketing; Measures; Medical; Methods; Music; Noise; Performance; Persons; Phase; Process; Protocols documentation; Signal Transduction; Source; Specific qualifier value; Speech; System; Technology; Telephone; Testing; The Sun; Time; Vendor; Visit; Voice; Work; commercialization; cost; harmonic distortion; health disparity; hearing impairment; innovation; meetings; operation; product development; prototype; social stigma; sound; system architecture; tv watching; wireless fidelity

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this project is to develop technologies and in Phase III devices for better hearing that would be inexpensive, offer extraordinary benefit in difficult listening conditions, be easily accessible and esthetically beautiful. The technologies to be developed in this study would facilitate the deployment of not only inexpensive, small, modern looking, and high quality personal amplifiers, but would most importantly enable interconnectivity between different devices. Thus, the participating devices would act as a "smart swarm," and would coordinate and share signal and noise information among themselves and with plethora of smart objects in the world around. In its simplest form the swarm intelligence would provide to the listener the signal picked up by the device located closest to the source of sound and thus deliver to the listener the best available signal to noise ratio. In a more complex form, a multitude of devices would team up to provide a more efficient tracking of and zooming on the source of sound further enhancing the signal to noise ratio. The devices to be developed in Phase III will be offered through a variety of consumer retail channels and will address the hearing health needs of individuals with mild to moderate hearing loss. The devices will work directly off the shelf or, if desired, they can be further fine-tuned b the wearer using a smart phone, or professionally adjusted by the audiologist. Due to the deployment of the technologies to increase the signal to noise ratio, it is expected that in many difficult listing situations, these devices may surpass the far more expensive hearing aids. The devices will also be marketed to people with normal hearing to facilitate communication in noise and to serve as a high end headset for music listening, telephone communication, TV listening etc. This will not only increase the size of the target market for the product, but will blur the distinction between people with and without hearing loss and effectively deal with stigma.

描述(由申请人提供)：该项目的总体目标是开发技术和第三阶段设备，以获得更好的听力，这些设备将是廉价的，在困难的听力条件下提供非凡的好处，易于接近和美观。这项研究中将要开发的技术不仅将有助于部署廉价、小巧、外观现代和高质量的个人放大器，而且最重要的是将使不同设备之间能够相互连接。因此，参与其中的设备将扮演一个“智能群”的角色，并在它们自己之间以及与世界各地过多的智能物体之间协调和共享信号和噪声信息。在其最简单的形式中，群体智能将向听者提供位于最接近声源的设备所拾取的信号，从而向听者提供最佳的可用信噪比。在更复杂的形式中，许多设备将联合起来，提供更有效的声源跟踪和缩放，进一步提高信噪比。 将在第三阶段开发的设备将通过各种消费者零售渠道提供，将满足轻度至中度听力损失患者的听力健康需求。这些设备将直接在货架上使用，如果需要，佩戴者可以使用智能手机对其进行进一步微调，或者由听力专家进行专业调整。由于部署了提高信噪比的技术，预计在许多困难的上市情况下，这些设备可能会超过更昂贵的助听器。这些设备还将销售给听力正常的人，以促进在噪音中的交流，并作为听音乐、电话通信、听电视等的高端耳机。这不仅将增加产品的目标市场规模，而且将模糊听力损失和非听力损失的区别，有效地应对耻辱。