HEARING AID AND HEARING AIDING METHOD

Title:

HEARING AID AND HEARING AIDING METHOD

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2010/087171

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

A hearing aid which improves the hearing ability which has been impaired due to a reduction of a temporal resolution comprises a sound input means (201) to which an external sound signal is input; a sound analysis means (202) which detects a sound section and a substantially acoustically soundless section, of the sound signal input to the sound input means (201), and detects a consonant section and a vowel section within the detected sound section; and a signal processor (204) which performs time expansion of the consonant section detected by the sound analysis means (202) and performs time compression of at least one of the vowel section and the substantially acoustically soundless section, detected by the sound analysis means (202).

Inventors:

FUSAKAWA KAZUE
ITO GEMPO

Application Number:

PCT/JP2010/000485

Publication Date:

August 05, 2010

Filing Date:

January 28, 2010

Export Citation:

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Assignee:

PANASONIC CORP (JP)
FUSAKAWA KAZUE
ITO GEMPO

International Classes:

G10L21/043; G10L21/057; G10L25/90; G10L25/93; H04R25/00; G10L25/78

Foreign References:

JP2005287600A	2005-10-20
JP2005065124A	2005-03-10
JPH10333695A	1998-12-18
JP2007219188A	2007-08-30
JP2008070564A	2008-03-27
JPS59123400A	1984-07-17
JPH06289896A	1994-10-18

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