Enhanced hearing system
View Patent ↗A hearing system includes an eye tracking module to detect a sound region of interest; one or more microphone arrays coupled to the eye tracking module and focused on the detected sound region of interest; and one or more amplifiers wirelessly coupled to the one or more microphone arrays and to render sound from the sound region of interest for one or more ears.
1. A hearing system, comprising:
a microphone array system including three or more microphones positioned in a plurality of regions in a room;
an eye tracking module to detect a person in a sound region of interest and a processor to select one or more microphones covering the region of interest in the microphone array coupled to the eye tracking module to capture sound from the microphones covering the detected sound region of interest; and
one or more amplifiers wirelessly coupled to the one or more selected microphones covering the region of interest and to render sound from the sound region of interest to the person's ears.
2. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising external sensors to detect user action including temperature, gesture, hand command for use in a virtual reality or augmented reality application.
3. The hearing system of claim 1 , wherein the eye tracking module comprises one or more cameras to detect eye movement or eye gaze.
4. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising an emotion detection module coupled to the eye tracking module.
5. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a plurality of remote microphones positioned around a room.
6. The hearing system of claim 5 , comprising a wireless communication module coupling the remote microphones to the left and right amplifiers.
7. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a beam forming module to capture sound from the microphone array and the remote microphones and deliver enhanced sound from the region of interest to the left and right ears.
8. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a wireless communication module coupling the amplifiers to a smart phone.
9. The hearing system of claim 7 , wherein the smart phone is used to tune or adjust each amplifier performance or audio response.
10. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a speech recognizer to transcribe verbal communications delivered to the one or more ears.
11. The hearing system of claim 10 , comprising a display coupled to the speech recognizer.
12. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a wireless transceiver coupling a smart phone or a communicator device to the one or more amplifiers.
13. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising eye glass with one or more cameras to capture eye movement, wherein the microphone array is mounted on the eye glass and a bone conduction sound generator.
14. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising jewelry with one or more cameras to capture eye movement, wherein the microphone array is mounted on an eye glass.
15. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising one or more remote cameras to capture eye movements.
16. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a contact lens or eye wearable device to capture eye movement.
17. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising an accelerometer to detect head rotation.
18. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a camera to with a facial recognition module and a noise canceller coupled to the microphone array.
19. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a transceiver coupled to a cellular telephone for handling voice communications over the phone.
20. The hearing system of claim 1 , comprising a bone conduction sound driver to generate sound conducted through bone to the one or more ears.