Implementation of Binaural Communication Open Platform for Binaural Hearing Aids Developing
Dongwook Kim, Juman Park, Qun Wei, Hyung-Gyu Lim, Hee-Joon Park, Ki Woong Seong, Jyung-Hyun Lee, Myoung‐Nam Kim, Jin‐Ho Cho · Journal of Sensor Science and Technology · 2011
Recently, the performance of binaural hearing aids is rapidly improved with the technology advancement of wireless communication, digital signal processing, and integrated circuit design. However, the previous hearing aids developer platforms can't be applied to binaural hearing aids developing, because it has no consideration for wireless communication and binaural hearing control. Also, the previous developer platforms are not easy to use for the algorithm development, because programming languages are limited. In this paper, we designed and implemented the open platform board for binaural hearing aids developing. The designed board can be programmed by general programming language and can be used wireless communication module. In order to verify the designed open platform board, we used the volume control algorithm using two open platform board. As a result of experiment, we verified the performance of designed and implemented open platform board that was successfully operated the binaural hearing control and the wireless communication.