A directional hearing system
CA 2252447 C · Owner: Cardinal Sound Labs, Inc. · Inventors: Lehr, Michael A.; Widrow, Bernard
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A directional acoustic receiving system is constructed in the form of a necklace including an array of two or more microphones mounted on a housing supported on the chest of a user by a conducting loop encircling the user's neck. Signal processing electronics contained in the same housing receives and combines the microphone signals in such a manner as to provide an amplified output signal which emphasizes sounds of interest arriving in a direction forward of the user. The amplified output signal drives the supporting conducting loop to produce a representative magnetic field. An electroacoustic transducer including a magnetic field pick-up coil for receiving the magnetic field is …
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- Filed April 17, 1997 and granted September 21, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 17, 2017.
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