• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.315-321
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 다채널 디지털 보청기에서 적용될 수 있는 적응 궤환 제거 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 적응궤환 제거기는 궤환 검출을 위한 적응 노치 필터와 궤환 제거를 위한 NLMS (normalized least mean square) 적응필터로 구성되어 있다. 제안된 적응 궤환 제거 알고리즘을 다채널 보청 알고리듬과 결합하였다. 다채널 보청 알고리즘은 MDCT (modified discrete cosine transform) 필터뱅크를 이용하여 주파수 대역별 청력 손실을 보상하도록 구성하였다. 제안된 알고리즘을 포함한 완성된 보청 알고리즘의 성능을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 평가하였으며 상용 DSP보드를 이용하여 실시간 구현을 확인하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.467-476
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 DSP코어를 채용한 디지털 보청기 칩을 설계 제작하였다. 디지털 보청기 칩은 크기와 소비전력면에서 크게 제한을 받는다. 이와함께 다양한 형태와 범위의 청각 손실에 대해 보상을 할 수 있어야 하기 때문에 알고리즘 개발을 위해 구조적인 유연성을 필요로 한다는 점도 칩 설계에 있어 또다른 제약이 된다. 본 연구에서는 16비트 고정 소수점 연산을 하는 크로그래머블 DSP 코어를 사용하여 보청기 칩을 설계하였다. 제작된 보청기 칩은 난청자의 청각 측정치를 바탕으로 8개의 주파수 대역에 걸쳐 비선형적으로 라우드니스를 보상해 준다. 필터 뱅크를 사용하는 대신에 본 연구에서에서는 단일 필터를 주파수 샘플링 방법으로 설계함으로써 주파수 왜곡을 최소화 하였다. 또한 프로그램 가능한 DSP 코어를 사용하였기 때문에 알고리즘 개발을 위한 시스템으로도 활용이 가능할 뿐만 아니라 $5,500\times5000$$\mu$$m^2$의 크기와 저전력 동작특성을 갖고 있어서 소형 보청기 제작에 적합하다.

• Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.250-258
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• 2018

Objectives. To compare narrative skills between fourth and fifth grades of Persian-speaking students with hearing impairments and typical hearing students of the same grade and also to evaluate the effects of group, sex, hearing age, and educational grade of the students on their spoken/written narrative performance. Methods. The subjects were 174 students aged 10-13 years, 54 of whom wore cochlear implants, 60 suffered from moderate to severe hearing losses and wore hearing aids, with the remaining 60 students being typical hearing in terms of the sense of hearing. The micro- and macrostructure components of spoken and written narrative were elicited from a pictorial story (The Playful Little Elephant) and then scored by raters. Results. Compared to the typical hearing, the students with hearing impairments had significantly lower scores in all of the microstructure components of narratives. However, the findings showed no significant difference among different groups in macrostructure components of narratives. It was also revealed that the students had equal performance in spoken and written narrative. Finally, factor analysis manifested that group, sex, hearing age, and educational level of children might alter the outcome measures in various interactions. Conclusion. Although cochlear implantation was more effective than hearing aid on spoken and written narrative skills, the Persian-speaking students with hearing impairments were seen to need additional trainings on microstructure components of spoken/written narrative.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.175-180
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• 2004

In case of the hearing impairment with tinnitus and increased sound sensitivity, it is known that the patients tend to appeal the psychologically oriented social handicap rather than communication disability. The audiologist who is responsible for such patients in aural rehabilitation should pay special attention to the counseling techniques including tinnitus retain therapy (TRT), ear protector, noise generator, or specific acoustic training based on close cooperation and rapport. And then the audiologist should try to lessen their reaction to the tinnitus by using a hearing aid. This therapies tries to focus not a. total approach but a treatment to lessen the severity of tinnitus. This paper as a case report that a unilateral sharply slopped sensorineural hearing impaired person with tinnitus and increased sound sensitivity by using four channel digital signal processing (DSP) hearing aid with programming increment at low level (PILL).

• 음성과학
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.79-89
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• 2005

Acoustic feedback between microphone and receiver can be effectively cancelled adaptive feedback cancellation algorithm. Although many speech sounds have non-Gaussian distribution, most algorithms were tested with speech like sounds whose distribution were Guassian type. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive feedback cancellation algorithm based on independent component analysis (ICA) for digital hearing aid. The algorithm was tested with not only Gaussian distribution but also Laplacian distribution. We verified that the proposed algorithm has better acoustic feedback cancelling performance than conventional normalized root mean square (NLMS) algorithm, especially speech like sounds with Laplacian distribution.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.342-344
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• 1997

Owing to technical advances in very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI), high-speed digital signal processing (DSP) chips become fast enough to allow for real-time implementation of hearing aid algorithms in units small enough to be wearable. In this paper, we present a digital hearing aid processor (DHAP) chip built around a general-purpose 16-bit DSP core. The designed DHAP performs a nonlinear loudness correction of 8 octave frequency bands based on audiometric measurements. By employing a programmable DSP, the DHAP provides all the flexibility needed to implement audiological algorithms. In addition, the has a low power feature and $5.410\times5.720mm^2$ dimensions that fit for wearable devices.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1044-1047
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• 2003

An acoustic testing device composed of 2 probe microphones was developed for the electro-acoustic specification testing of the ITE (In-The-Ear) hearing aid (HA). The amplitude ratio and the phase difference between the incident pressure onto the HA microphone and the outward pressure of the HA receiver were measured by the present acoustic system. The microphones were particularly used because of small acoustic cavities where input and output pressures were present. The acoustic wall composed of clay completely blocks the propagation of the sound pressure between the small acoustic cavities. The system has an advantage of structural flexibility for the acoustic testing of different sizes and shapes of ITE-type HAs.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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• 제49권10호
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• pp.583-588
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• 2000

This paper presents the design and fabrication of micro electromagnetic vibration silicon elastic body characterized with small size, high efficiency and selective frequency bandwidth for Bio-MENS applications, such as implantable middle ear hearing aid. The presented electromagnetic vibration transducer that composed of wounded coil, permanent magnet and 4-beam cross type elastic body is fabricated by using of micromachining technology. The fabricated transducer has experimental characteristics, that is 5 nm/mA of an energy trasfer rate at the frequency range of 100∼2800 Hz. It has a size of $2{\times}2{\times}2.5\;mm^3$.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.24-33
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• 2013

To enhance the speech perception of hearing aid users in noisy environment, most hearing aid devices adopt various beamforming algorithms such as the first-order differential microphone (DM1) and the two-stage directional microphone (DM2) algorithms that maintain sounds from the direction of the interlocutor and reduce the ambient sounds from the other directions. However, these conventional algorithms represent poor directionality ability in low frequency area. Therefore, to enhance the speech perception of hearing aid uses in low frequency range, our group had suggested a fractional delay subtraction and integration (FDSI) algorithm and estimated its theoretical performance using computer simulation in previous article. In this study, we performed a KEMAR test in non-reverberant room that compares the performance of DM1, DM2, broadband beamforming (BBF), and proposed FDSI algorithms using several objective indices such as a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement, a segmental SNR (seg-SNR) improvement, a perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), and an Itakura-Saito measure (IS). Experimental results showed that the performance of the FDSI algorithm was -3.26-7.16 dB in SNR improvement, -1.94-5.41 dB in segSNR improvement, 1.49-2.79 in PESQ, and 0.79-3.59 in IS, which demonstrated that the FDSI algorithm showed the highest improvement of SNR and segSNR, and the lowest IS. We believe that the proposed FDSI algorithm has a potential as a beamformer for digital hearing aid devices.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.243-247
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• 1996

Electro-magnetic type implantable middle ear hearing aid has been empirically developed. But for further improvement of the system performance more quantitative approach is necessary. In this paper, we analyzed vibrating transducer which is most important to design the system, appropriate for given hearing level, and implemented it. Using this transducer, implantable hearing aid system are developed. To verify the design process, we experimented with driving metal strip by the developed system. From the experiment, frequency response of implemented device showed good characteristic at audio frequency and we confirmed that each part of the developed system operated well.