Patent ID: 11877124
Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  A | IPC A  H

Claim 0:
1. An audio system for user hearing assessment comprising:
one or more audio capture devices configured to capture audio of an individual user's speech and convert the audio to audio signals; and
processing circuitry configured to:
use the audio signals and a neural network to generate a customized hearing profile for the individual user, wherein the customized hearing profile indicates an ability of the user to hear different audio frequencies or phonemes;
obtain a plurality of hearing profiles of other users of a population of users;
obtain a ranking of the customized hearing profile and the plurality of hearing profiles of the other users to identify one or more users of the population that suffer from hearing difficulty; and
provide an indication to the individual user if the individual user is one of the users of the population that suffers from hearing difficulty.