137 results about "Cochlea implant" patented technology

A cochlear implant including a cochlear lead, an antenna, a stimulation processor, and an implant magnet apparatus, associated with the antenna, including a case defining a central axis, a first disk-shaped magnet member, located within the case and rotatable relative to the case about the central axis of the case, including a magnetic north portion (“N-portion”), a magnetic south portion (“S-portion”) and an amagnetic portion (“AM-portion”), and a second disk-shaped magnet member, located within the case and rotatable relative to the case about the central axis of the case, including a N-portion, a S-portion and an AM-portion.

A cochlear implant headpiece, for use with a cochlear implant, including a housing, a diametrically magnetized headpiece magnet, defining an axis and a N-S direction, within the housing and rotatable about the axis, whereby the N-S direction of the headpiece magnet self-aligns with the gravitational direction when the axis is perpendicular to the gravitational direction, and a headpiece antenna associated with the housing.

An implantable electrode arrangement for a cochlear implant system is described. The arrangement includes a flexible intracochlear electrode array having an outer surface with electrode contacts for applying cochlear stimulation signals to target neural tissue within the implanted cochlea. A flexible extracochlear electrode lead is coupled at a lead proximal end to an implanted signal processor that provides the cochlear stimulation signals, and connected at a lead distal end to a proximal end of the electrode array. A lead holder is connected to the lead distal end and has an initial shape. The lead holder is malleable and adapted to be intra-surgically deformed into and retain a new desired shape so as to secure the lead distal end at the electrode opening into the implanted cochlea and decouple post-surgical mechanical strain at the lead distal end from the electrode array.

The invention discloses an electric cochlea speech processor and processing method with signal compression in a wide dynamic range. The electric cochlea speech processing method comprises the following steps that: a processing unit performs pre-emphasis processing and frequency division processing on transmitted acoustic signals by a frequency division module, and processing results are combined into M channels; according to a comfortable threshold parameter or a perception threshold parameter measured in advance of the M channels of an electric cochlea implanted person, a compression unit calculates an acoustic signal intensity parameter corresponding to an electric stimulation perception threshold or an acoustic signal intensity parameter corresponding to a comfortable threshold by an acoustic-electric compression function; then by adopting the parameter as an inflection point, and according to a compression curve in the wide dynamic range enveloped by a frequency spectrum, the compression unit calculates sound intensity after compression of each channel; and finally, after wide-dynamic compression, output sound intensity is subjected to acoustic-electric stimulus compression and then is output. The electric cochlea speech processor enhances signal processing efficiency and improves individual speech recognition ability of the electric cochlea implanted person.