Patent ID: 11863940
Assignee: COCHLEAR LIMITED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A device, comprising:
a hearing prosthesis configured with a sound capture system and configured to evoke a hearing percept based on a captured sound captured by the sound capture system, wherein
at least a portion of the prosthesis is configured to attach to a head of a recipient that is a human such that sound is captured by the sound capture system externally of the recipient at a head location below and in front of an ear canal of the human,
the device is configured to evoke a hearing percept in the human based on sound captured by the sound capture system,
the head of the recipient includes a pinna that is associated with the ear canal, the pinna being on a same side of the head that the at least a portion of the prosthesis is attached, and

the prosthesis is configured so that, in use, when the at least a portion of the prosthesis configured to attach to the head is attached to the head of the recipient so that sound is captured by the sound capture system externally of the recipient at the head location below the ear canal of the human, a side of the pinna is free of contact with the prosthesis, the side of the pinna being the side that is visible when looking at the head of the person directly from the side of the ear canal.