Download Exoaural Hearing Aid. “A perfect listening experience”

Exoaural Hearing Aid. “A perfect listening experience”
Audio device that compensates sonometric listener response for a perfect
listening experience.
The Audio Research Group of the School of Engineering and Telecommunication Systems at the Technical
University of Madrid (UPM) has developed a device that compensates the sonometric response of the listener to
perceive sound with the highest possible quality.
This device is applicable to any commercial application of audio and can even work as a hearing aids with superior
cost savings of 80%. It is a hardware device (or software on any device that supports it), low cost, for the full
enjoyment of the listening experience.
Technology solution supported by the Technical University of Madrid
Technology solution
The “Audiófono Exoaural” is inserted between the ear and
the audio player, to compensate both audiometricsonometric user response and the response of all
elements of the audio chain.
It is a hardware device, or software (depending on the
programming capabilities of the audio player), able to
catch the audiometric-sonometric response of the user
and the responses of all the elements of the audio chain
(headphones, audio player, etc.), and compensate them
in real time for obtaining an ideal response.
The “Audiófono Exoaural” is the first device that allows a
perfect hearing and, therefore, full enjoyment of the
listening experience.
Areas of application
 Audiovisual Entertainment:
 high quality sound regardless of the audio player
and/or headphones.
 Medical:
 low cost hearing aids.
“Simple and low cost solution to get the perfect
listening.”
Market demands
Competitive advantages
 Audiovisual Entertainment
• Exhaustion of technological development in the audio
signal. The audio industry has far exceeded the
qualities of auditory perceptual system. No greater
technological quality needed to listen better.
• Need for a qualitative jump in the audio world
because of the potential losses suffered by record
companies due to illegal downloads.
• Medical
• Reduction of cost of hearing aids, maintaining the
quality of them.
• Headphones working as hearing aids.
• Audio quality compatible with hearing impairment.
• First audio device that integrates the sonometric
response of the listener in the audio playback.
• Leap of quality in the audio world.
• Compatible with other audio equipment (players,
headphones, TV, smartphones, etc.)
• Low cost system.
• Software version for smartphones.
• Also applies to people with severe hearing impairment.
The role of hearing aids is performed by this system at a
cost much lower (<80%).
References
• The Audio Research Group of the School of
Engineering and Telecommunication Systems at the
Technical University of Madrid has over 20 years
experience in Audio, Acoustics, Active Noise Control
and applications of digital signal processing.
• It has several patents related to the audiometry and
active noise control.
IPR
• Patent application in Spain in process P201530778
“The entertainment industry needs a qualitative
jump for further growth.”
Development stage
Concept
R&D
Industrial Prototype
Production
Lab Prototype
Market potential
Contact Audiófono Exoaural
Audiovisual Entertainment
• Essential audio device in Smartphones, Audio Players,
TV, Movies, video games, 3D sound, etc.
• Business sectors of continuously growing globally.
 Medical
• Working as hearing aids with a cost reduction of 80%.
• Quality audio integration with the correction of
hearing impairment.
Lino García y Antonio Mínguez
[email protected], [email protected]
Research Group on Audio.
Depart. of Signal Theory and Communications.
School of Telecommunications Systems and
Engineering. UPM-Madrid.
UPM contact
Innovation, Commercialization and
Entrepreneurship Area
Centre of Support for Technological Innovation
– UPM
e: [email protected]