Wireless Hearing Aid Notification and Alarm System

描述(由申请人提供)：创新设计实验室(IDL)提出了一种无线助听器通知和报警系统。该系统将帮助2800多万患有或面临迫在眉睫的听力损失的美国人检测和识别他们家中和办公室中的重要听觉事件。重听人很难听到微弱的声音，如敲门声、隔壁房间的电话铃声、烤箱定时器警报或烟雾探测器。听这些声音的困难通常是一种滋扰，有时甚至是危险的。拟议计划的目标是开发一种系统，当常见警报声音发生时，该系统可以检测并通知助听器用户，而不需要提供专门的家庭或办公室基础设施或设备，也不需要用户携带额外的设备。拟议的方法将使用无线声音处理节点来监听警报声音，并使用完全集成在工厂助听器中的新数字无线电技术与助听器直接通信。新的超低功率数字无线电与助听器和小型低功率声音处理技术完全集成在一起，使所提出的系统在技术上是可行的。 与公共卫生相关：重听人很难听到微弱的声音，如敲门声、隔壁房间的电话铃声、烤箱定时器警报或烟雾探测器。听这些声音的困难通常是一种滋扰，有时甚至是危险的。拟议计划的目标是开发一种系统，当常见警报声音发生时，该系统可以检测并通知助听器用户，而不需要提供专门的家庭或办公室基础设施或设备，也不需要用户携带额外的设备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Innovative Design Labs (IDL) proposes a wireless hearing aid notification and alarm system. This system will assist the more than 28 million Americans who suffer from or face imminent hearing loss in detecting and recognizing important audible events in their home and office. It is difficult for hard of hearing persons to hear faint sounds such as a door knock, telephone ringing in an adjacent room, oven timer alarm, or smoke detector. Difficulty hearing these sounds is often a nuisance and sometimes hazardous. The goal of the proposed program is to develop a system that can detect and notify a hearing aid user when common alert sounds occur without needing to provide specialized home or office infrastructure or appliances, and without requiring the user to carry an additional device. The proposed approach will use wireless sound processing nodes that listen for the alert sounds and communicate directly with a hearing aid using new digital radio technology that is fully integrated in the hearing aid from the factory. New ultra low power digital radios fully integrated with the hearing aids and small low power sound processing technologies make the proposed system technically feasible at this time. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: It is difficult for hard of hearing persons to hear faint sounds such as a door knock, telephone ringing in an adjacent room, oven timer alarm, or smoke detector. Difficulty hearing these sounds is often a nuisance and sometimes hazardous. The goal of the proposed program is to develop a system that can detect and notify a hearing aid user when common alert sounds occur without needing to provide specialized home or office infrastructure or appliances, and without requiring the user to carry an additional device.