Hearing aids and methods and apparatus for audio fitting thereof
CA 2467352 A1 · Owner: Durant, Eric A. · Inventors: Durant, Eric A.
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A field ready, unsupervised-use ready, method and apparatus for audio fitting a hearing aid is described in a hand held configuration having paired comparison (hearing selections) stored in and derivable from a memory therein. The paired comparisons are presented one at a time to a user and a preferred selection for each paired comparison is made by a select indicator after the user toggles back and forth between the selections for as many times necessary in determining their preferences. A genetic algorithm converges all the preferences upon a single solution. Crossover and mutation genetic algorithm operators operate on a linear range of indexes representative of parametric …
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- Filed November 12, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 12, 2022.
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