• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.235-238
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• 2004

대부분의 보청기 이용자들은 자신이 장애를 겪고 있다는 사실이 알려지는 것을 꺼린다. 따라서 보청기 사용자들은 귀 바깥쪽으로 들어 나지 않는 귓속형(ITE type) 보청기를 선호한다. 하지만, 이러한 귓속형 보청기를 제작하는 것은 쉬운 일이 아니다. 보청기의 각각 부품들만을 볼 때는 그 크기가 소형이지만, 부품 모두를 귀속에 넣는다고 한다면, 공간의 확보는 꼭 필요한 사항이다. 또한 보청기는 하나의 칩(chip)에 부품이 전선(wire)을 통해 납땜이 되는 구조이다. 이는 전선의 단락을 유발할 뿐만 아니라 칩과 전선이 쉽게 떨어지며, 잦은 납Eoa 작업으로 인해 열적으로 칩의 파손까지도 일으킨다. 이를 보안하고자 여기에서는 보청기 소형화 방법으로 PCB(Printed Circuit Board)를 제시하였다. PCB 를 사용함으로써 전선의 사용을 최소화하고, 부품과 PCB 와의 직접적인 결합으로 인해 보다 견고한 보청기 제작을 목표로 하였다. 아울러 PCB 를 통한 부품의 실장으로 기존의 수작업이던 보청기 제작을 자동화와 제작 시간의 단축이라는 이점을 얻을 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.175-178
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• 2004

각각 2개의 마이크로폰을 내장한 귓속형 보청기를 양쪽귀에 착용한 상태에서 소리의 지향성을 시뮬레이션하고 전기음향실험으로 비교하였다. 지향성 보청기의 신호 대 잡음 비율 향상을 고려하였다. 시뮬레이션을 위해 경계요소기법을 사용하였으며 본 논문에 의해 밝혀진 주파수 대역에서의 시간 지연을 DSP칩을 내장한 디지털 보청기의 지향성 조절 파라미터로 사용하고자 한다. 마이크로폰 사이의 간격을 10mm로 하였다. 가장 최적한 지향성이 출력 되기 위한 위상을 계산하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.16 no.1 s.106
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• pp.81-88
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• 2006

The most recent trend on digital hearing aid is to increase the ratio of signal to noise by directivity or to develop noise reduction algorithm inside DSP IC chip. This paper designed, fabricated and tested a digital hearing aid directivity testing device in which a micro-mouse-like the stepping motor with a speaker rotates around an examinant. Both ears of the examinant were fixed with ITE hearing aids in order to respond to receiving sound. The experimental results were compared with those of a boundary element method program for verification. The diameter of the directivity testing device was 2 m and the micro-mouse was precisely controlled by PICBASIC micro processor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.469-474
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• 2005

The most recent trend on digital hearing aid is to increase the ratio of signal to noise by directivity or to develop noise reduction algorithm inside DSP IC chip. This paper designed, fabricated and tested a digital hearing aid directivity testing device in which a micro-mouse-1ike the stepping motor with a speaker rotates around an examinant. Both ears of the examinant were fixed with ITE hearing aids in order to response to receiving sound. The experimental results were compared with a boundary element method program for verification. The diameter of the directivity testing device was 2 [m] and the micro-mouse was precisely controlled by PICBASIC micro processor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2003.05a
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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.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.123-129
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• 2017

In this paper, the realization of a directional digital hearing aid was considered. Conventional time domain time delay method was replaced with digital filters in order to make any general-purposed DSP (Digital Signal Processing) chip to produce the similar directivity pattern. Both the time delay algorithm and the digital filter algorithm were initially evaluated by Matlab (Matrix laboratory) for comparison, and it was confirmed by CSR 8675 Bluetooth DSP IC (Digital Signal Processing Integrated Circuit) chip firmware realization. Some remote control features by a smart phone was added to the smart hearing aid for user interface easiness.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.273-279
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• 2012

In this thesis, a nonlinear compression fitting method was studied for each frequency channel of a 64 channel digital hearing aid. Unlike conventional fitting formula method done from the result of the hearing loss test, the present fitting method uses the auditory threshold of sound pressure measured near the tympanic membrane while ITE (In-The-Ear) hearing aid is fitted into the user's ear canal. Also, the spectral distribution of the voice sound pressure was used for realizing of output sound pressure compression curves against input sound pressure level. Theoretical research results of FFT-iFFT compression algorithm has been evaluated by experimental gain measurements at each different input sound pressure level 50 dB, 70 dB, 90 dB respectively.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.96-106
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• 2009

In this paper, correlation between the headphone's acoustical characteristics and the subjective preferences is analyzed, and a possibility of predicting the subjective preferences using the acoustical characteristics is investigated, The headphone's acoustical characteristics include the total harmonic distortions, the variation of the frequency response which were measured by separate channel and the inter-aural correlation coefficients, Those characteristics were measured in a noise-free anechoic chamber, using a head and torso simulator, The subjective preferences were scored in terms of loudness, clearness, spaciousness, fullness and overall impression, In the subjective listening test, 12 subjects were participated who have plentiful listening experiences, The programs include 5 kinds of musics; korean popular song, pop song, light music, male-voice and classic, The 8 models of the headphones were employed, including 4 closed-type circumaural headphones, 2 open-type supraaural headphones and 2 intra-concha headphones, A significant test was carred on the results from the subjective test, using a two-way ANOVA test, The correlation coefficients between the acoustical parameters and the subjective preferences were computed, Experimental results showed that the variation of the magnitude of frequency response measured from a right channel revealed higher correlation with the subjective preferences. Whereas the inter-aural correlation coefficients have very low correlation coefficients.