Patent ID: 11871187
Assignee: CONCHA INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A method comprising:
accessing a set of hearing-assistance device options, each hearing-assistance device option:
defining a set of tip sizes available for the hearing-assistance device, in a set of hearing-assistance devices; and
defining a form factor of a hearing-assistance device, in the set of hearing-assistance devices;

accessing an image of an ear of the user;
detecting the ear in a region of the image;
extracting a set of features from the region of the image;
interpreting a set of constraining dimensions of the ear of the user based on the set of features comprising interpreting a shape of a concha cavum of the ear of the user;
identifying a subset of hearing-assistance device options, in the set of hearing-assistance device options, defining form factors conforming to the set of constraining dimensions; and
for each hearing-assistance device option in the subset of hearing-assistance device options, identifying a tip size of the hearing assistance device in the set of tip sizes available for the hearing-assistance device conforming to the shape of the concha cavum of the ear of the user;
selecting a first hearing-assistance device option from the subset of hearing-assistance devices.