Patent ID: 11877125
Assignee: CHROMATIC INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A hearing aid configured to enhance incoming audio signals, the hearing aid comprising:
neural network circuitry configured to denoise an incoming audio signal by:
generating, using a recurrent neural network, a mask based on the incoming audio signal;
applying the mask to the incoming audio signal such that a speech component of the incoming audio signal is obtained; and
mixing the speech component of the incoming audio signal with a noise component of the incoming audio signal;

digital signal processing circuitry coupled to the neural network circuitry and configured to perform one or more of dynamic range compression, amplification, and frequency tuning; and
a controller configured to selectively determine whether to transmit the incoming audio signal to the neural network circuitry for denoising or to transmit the incoming audio signal to the digital signal processing circuitry without denoising by the neural network circuitry.