Patent ID: 11875812
Assignee: STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An ear-worn electronic device, comprising:
a housing configured to be supported by, at, in or on an ear of a wearer and to contain or support:
a microphone configured to monitor an acoustic environment of the wearer;
an acoustic transducer; and
an active noise control (ANC) system operatively coupled to a processor, the microphone, and the acoustic transducer, the ANC system configured to be driven by a psychoacoustic annoyance model and to selectively attenuate one or more of a plurality of annoying sounds pre-identified by the wearer, the ANC system further configured to selectively attenuate one or more of the plurality of annoying sounds by a degree of attenuation pre-identified by the wearer.