Technology to support deployment of intelligent audio devices to function indepen

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，价格低廉，在困难的听力条件下提供非凡的益处，易于获得和美观。本研究中开发的技术不仅将促进部署廉价、小型、现代外观和高质量的个人放大器，而且最重要的是实现不同设备之间的互连。因此，参与的设备将充当“智能群”，并将在它们之间以及与世界上过多的智能对象协调和共享信号和噪声信息。在其最简单的形式中，群体智能将向收听者提供由位于最接近声源的设备拾取的信号，从而向收听者提供最佳可用信噪比。在更复杂的形式中，多个设备将合作以提供对声源的更有效的跟踪和缩放，从而进一步增强信噪比。 第三阶段开发的设备将通过各种消费者零售渠道提供，并将满足轻度至中度听力损失患者的听力健康需求。这些设备将直接从货架上工作，或者如果需要，它们可以由佩戴者使用智能手机进一步微调B，或者由听力学家进行专业调整。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昂贵得多的助听器。这些设备还将向听力正常的人销售，以促进噪音中的沟通，并作为高端耳机用于听音乐，电话通信，电视收听等，这不仅会增加产品的目标市场规模，而且会模糊听力损失和非听力损失之间的区别，并有效地处理耻辱。

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.