Patent ID: 8874226
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: A61N,H04R

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture including tangible non-transitory computer-readable media with instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising: instructions for causing a computing device associated with a hearing prosthesis to display a graphical user interface configured to accept inputs corresponding to indications that correspond to sound sensations experienced by a prosthesis recipient; instructions for organizing individual channels of the hearing prosthesis into a plurality of channel groups, the channel groups comprising (i) a group of three or more channels and (ii) at least one subgroup of two or more channels, wherein each channel included in the at least one subgroup of two or more channels is included in the group of three or more channels, and wherein a number of channels in the at least one subgroup of two or more channels is less than a number of channels in the group of three or more channels; instructions for causing the hearing prosthesis to generate a set of three or more stimulation signals via the group of three or more channels, wherein individual stimulation signals of the set of three or more stimulation signals have corresponding stimulation levels; instructions for receiving a first indication via the graphical user interface of whether a sound sensation corresponding to the set of three or more stimulation signals is uncomfortably loud; and instructions for causing the hearing prosthesis to reduce the corresponding stimulation levels of the individual stimulation signals of the set of three or more stimulation signals and to generate a set of two or more stimulation signals via the at least one subgroup of channels if the first indication is that the sound sensation corresponding to the set of three or more stimulation signals is uncomfortably loud.