Patent ID: 11968500
Assignee: OTICON A/S
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A hearing device or system comprising
at least one earpiece configured to be worn at or in an ear of a user and to receive an acoustic signal and to present a final processed signal to the user; and
a separate audio processing device in communication with the at least one earpiece;, wherein the earpiece is configured to transmit said acoustic signal to the audio processing device; and, wherein the audio processing device comprises a signal predictor for estimating future values of the acoustical signal received by the at least one earpiece, or a processed version thereof, in dependence of a multitude of past values of said signal, thereby providing a predicted signal; and
wherein the predictor is configured to compensate for or reduce the delay incurred by the processing being conducted in the external processing device.