Patent ID: 9326078
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04R

Claim Text:
1. A system for improving speech understanding in noisy environments, comprising: a central processing station that includes processing circuitry and wireless communication circuitry; a plurality of hearing aids for wearing by a plurality of users, wherein each hearing aid includes an input transducer, an output transducer, processing circuitry, and a wireless transceiver for communicating with the central processing station; wherein at least one of the plurality of hearing aids is configured to act as a target hearing aid adapted to be worn by a first user; wherein at least one of the plurality of hearing aids is configured to act as a source hearing aid adapted to be worn by a second user; wherein the source hearing aid is configured to extract speech spoken by a user of the source hearing aid as received by its input transducer and transmit the extracted speech signals to the central processing station; wherein the central processing station is configured to perform hearing loss compensation according to hearing loss parameters specified for the target hearing aid on the received extracted speech signals and transmit the compensated signals to the target hearing aid; and, wherein the target hearing aid is configured to decode the compensated signals received from the central processing station and play back the decoded signals through its output transducer.