Effects of bone-conducted signal on the implantable microphone

Author

Kim, Dong-Wook ; Lee, Jang-Woo ; Seong, Ki-Woong ; Woo, Seong-Tak ; Cho, Jin-Ho

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kyungpook Nat. Univ., Daegu, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2011

fDate

11-13 March 2011

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

114

Abstract

The fully implantable hearing devices (FIHDs) have been widely studied to solve the problems of conventional hearing aids. The microphone of FIHDs is implanted under the skin at temporal bone. So, it´s characteristics can be affected by bone-conducted noise, such as chattering teeth and eating food. In this paper, we investigated the effect of bone-conducted noise on implanted microphone. To verify the noise effect, we implemented the physical model using the artificial bone and silicone. And a result, it confirmed that output signals are modified by bone-conducted signal.

Keywords

acoustic signal processing; hearing aids; microphones; prosthetics; acoustic signal; artificial bone; bone-conducted noise; bone-conducted signal effect; full implantable hearing devices; hearing aids; implantable microphone; silicone; Auditory system; Biological system modeling; Bones; Hearing aids; Microphones; Skin; Vibrations; bone-conducted signal; fully implantable hearing devices; implantable microphone; physical model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Research and Development (ICCRD), 2011 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-839-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCRD.2011.5763984

Filename

5763984