EP1713303B1 - Dispositif de microphone avec capteur d'orientation et procédé d'opération correspondant du dispositif de microphone - Google Patents

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EP1713303B1
EP1713303B1 EP06112570A EP06112570A EP1713303B1 EP 1713303 B1 EP1713303 B1 EP 1713303B1 EP 06112570 A EP06112570 A EP 06112570A EP 06112570 A EP06112570 A EP 06112570A EP 1713303 B1 EP1713303 B1 EP 1713303B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R1/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones
    • H04R1/20—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics
    • H04R1/32—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics for obtaining desired directional characteristic only
    • H04R1/40—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics for obtaining desired directional characteristic only by combining a number of identical transducers
    • H04R1/406—Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics for obtaining desired directional characteristic only by combining a number of identical transducers microphones
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/55—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception using an external connection, either wireless or wired
    • H04R25/554—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception using an external connection, either wireless or wired using a wireless connection, e.g. between microphone and amplifier or using Tcoils
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R2201/00—Details of transducers, loudspeakers or microphones covered by H04R1/00 but not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2201/40—Details of arrangements for obtaining desired directional characteristic by combining a number of identical transducers covered by H04R1/40 but not provided for in any of its subgroups
    • H04R2201/403—Linear arrays of transducers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
    • H04R25/00—Deaf-aid sets, i.e. electro-acoustic or electro-mechanical hearing aids; Electric tinnitus maskers providing an auditory perception
    • H04R25/40—Arrangements for obtaining a desired directivity characteristic
    • H04R25/405—Arrangements for obtaining a desired directivity characteristic by combining a plurality of transducers

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  • the present invention relates to a microphone device for a hearing aid with at least two microphones, which are arranged on a straight line, to obtain a directivity and a control device for controlling the microphones. Moreover, the present invention relates to a corresponding method for operating such a microphone device.
  • external, directional microphones which are also referred to as external directional microphones known. These external, directional microphones transmit signals with improved signal-to-noise ratio wirelessly to the appropriate hearing aids. They usually have an on / off switch and a switch for adjusting the type or strength of the directivity.
  • a hearing aid with an external directional microphone is for example from the WO 2004/093487 A2 known.
  • a circuit arrangement for the automatic switching on and / or off of mobile devices, such as hearing aids known has a motion detector which detects a change in orientation or inclination.
  • This known orientation sensor provides an alternating signal to a circuit. The alternating signal indicates that the hearing aid is being moved, which changes its orientation.
  • the circuit does not switch on the power supply until there is an alternating signal from the orientation sensor.
  • the power supply is switched off again if there is no change signal from the orientation sensor for a certain period of time.
  • a personal locating device is known, with which an angle measurement between the direction from which a source emits electromagnetic, infrared or ultrasonic radiation, as well as the direction in which a person has oriented their head, is common.
  • an electronic device with microphones arranged on a screen and a gravity sensor are known. According to the position of the screen, the gravity sensor switches off microphones to be used by means of a control unit, microphones to be used.
  • the object of the present invention is thus to propose a microphone device whose handling is improved.
  • a corresponding method for operating such a microphone device should be specified.
  • this object is achieved by a microphone device and an associated method for a hearing aid with at least two microphones, which are arranged on a straight line to achieve a directivity, and a control device for controlling the microphones, wherein the Steuerein direction having an orientation sensor which is mechanically fixedly connected to the microphones and which emits an orientation signal depending on the orientation of the straight line of the microphones, so that the control of the microphones can be influenced by the orientation signal.
  • the controller turns off the microphones when the main picking direction is oriented substantially vertically downwards. The fact is exploited that usually the sound does not come from below.
  • the controller may switch the microphones to a directional operation when the main picking direction is oriented substantially horizontally. This takes into account that most of the sound sources are typically in a horizontal plane around the user.
  • the control device can switch the microphones in an omnidirectional operation, when the main picking direction is oriented substantially vertically upwards. It can be benefited by the vertical arrangement of the microphones one above the other for omnidirectional operation.
  • the microphone device according to the invention is realized with respect to the hearing aid as an external component.
  • the hearing aid can be designed in the form of a stylus, which acts very inconspicuous and can be arbitrarily oriented.
  • the microphone device has a transmission interface for the wireless transmission of microphone signals to the hearing aid.
  • the hearing aid wearer is completely unbound by the hearing aid in the orientation of the microphone device.
  • the directional microphone R here has three microphones M, which are arranged along the longitudinal axis of the pin.
  • the number of microphones can also be two, four, five and more.
  • microphones can also be arranged on another side of the pin-shaped directional microphone R.
  • the directional microphone R has an unillustrated control circuit for controlling the microphones, wherein the control circuit includes an orientation sensor.
  • FIG. 1 The pin-shaped directional microphone R is reproduced with its tip down. This means that the main pickup direction H points in the negative z direction.
  • the corresponding Cartesian coordinate system is in FIG. 1 indicated.
  • the horizontal plane is indicated by the coordinates X and Y.
  • the control circuit of the directional microphone R is set up so that the directional microphone R in the in FIG. 1 turned off position in the main recording direction or the tip down in response to the orientation sensor. If the stylus or directional microphone R is thus held vertically downwards or, for example, worn in the breast pocket, then this means: The directional microphone R should not be used and it should consequently switch off automatically.
  • FIG. 2 is the directional microphone R horizontally oriented in an XY plane.
  • the main take-up direction H points in a desired direction.
  • the orientation sensor has detected the horizontal orientation of the directional microphone R automatically and therefore switches the directional microphone R in directional operation.
  • the stylus or the directional microphone is directed, for example, to a conversation partner and it is desired a directivity according to the orientation of the pen.
  • the pen can be kept inconspicuously in the hand or placed appropriately oriented on the table.
  • the directional microphone can be switched depending on the orientation in any other modes. It is thus possible, for example, for the directional microphone to be switched to omnidirectional operation in each vertical position (positive and negative z-direction) and to directional operation in the case of horizontal alignment.
  • the automatic Orientation switch can be combined with a manual switch to turn the directional microphone on and off.
  • the strength of the directivity can be changed continuously or quasi continuously depending on the inclination of the directional microphone relative to a horizontal plane according to another embodiment.
  • the orientation sensor not only switches back and forth between two different operating modes, but the functionality of the directional microphone changes continuously with the orientation of the directional microphone in the room.

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  1. Dispositif de microphone (R) pour un appareil de correction auditive comprenant
    - au moins deux microphones (M), qui sont disposés sur une droite, pour obtenir un effet directif et
    - un dispositif de commande pour la commande des microphones (M), le dispositif de commande présentant un capteur d'orientation, qui est relié de façon fixe mécaniquement aux microphones (M) et qui émet un signal d'orientation en fonction de l'orientation de la droite des microphones (M), de sorte que la commande des microphones (M) peut être influencée par le signal d'orientation,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif de microphone (R) présente une direction d'enregistrement principale (H), le dispositif de commande déconnectant le microphone (M) lorsque la direction d'enregistrement principale (H) est orientée sensiblement verticalement vers le bas.
  2. Dispositif de microphone selon la revendication 1, le dispositif de commande commutant les microphones (M) dans un mode directionnel lorsque la direction d'enregistrement principale (H) est orientée sensiblement horizontalement.
  3. Dispositif de microphone selon la revendication 1 ou 2, le dispositif de commande commutant les microphones (M) dans un mode omnidirectionnel lorsque la direction d'enregistrement principale (H) est orientée sensiblement verticalement vers le haut.
  4. Dispositif de microphone selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, qui est réalisé sous forme de composant externe en ce qui concerne l'appareil de correction auditive.
  5. Dispositif de microphone selon la revendication 4, qui présente une interface de transmission pour la transmission sans fil de signaux de microphone à l'appareil de correction auditive.
  6. Procédé pour le fonctionnement d'un dispositif de microphone (R) pour un appareil de correction auditive selon la revendication 1 présentant les étapes suivantes :
    - orientation du dispositif de microphone (R) de telle sorte qu'il occupe une orientation choisie, et
    - commande du dispositif de microphone (R) en fonction de l'orientation choisie,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le dispositif de microphone (R) présente une direction d'enregistrement principale (H) et est déconnecté lorsque la direction d'enregistrement principale (H) est orientée sensiblement verticalement vers le bas.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 6, le dispositif de microphone (R) étant commuté dans un mode directionnel lorsque la direction d'enregistrement principale (H) est orientée sensiblement horizontalement.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 6 ou 7, le dispositif de microphone (R) étant commuté dans un mode omnidirectionnel lorsque la direction d'enregistrement principale (H) est orientée sensiblement verticalement vers le haut.
EP06112570A 2005-04-15 2006-04-12 Dispositif de microphone avec capteur d'orientation et procédé d'opération correspondant du dispositif de microphone Active EP1713303B1 (fr)

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