Patent Document ID: 20110295166
Application ID: 13046277
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for reducing the perception of tinnitus in a human subject, comprising: a. providing a left ear phone directing left audible stimuli into a left ear of said human subject; b. providing a right ear phone directing right audible stimuli into a right ear of said human subject; c. providing an audible stimuli generator configured to generate said left and right audible stimuli; d. determining a best pitch fit for said tinnitus in said human subject; e. determining a midplane virtual image for said human subject by sweeping a phase of one of said left and right audible stimuli with respect to the other until said human subject reports perceiving said left and right audible stimuli as lying spatially on a midplane of said human subject; f. sweeping a phase of said one of said left and right audible stimuli with respect to the other until said human subject reports perceiving a point of reduced tinnitus; g. recording said values for best pitch fit and phase; and h. thereafter applying said values for best pitch fit and phase to said patient in order to reduce said perceived tinnitus.