US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 16 for "Multi-directional hearing aid adjustment using image capture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,674, issued on June 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multi-directional hearing aid adjustment using image capture" was invented by Brant L. Candelore (Poway, Calif.), James R. Milne (Ramona, Calif.), Justin Kenefick (San Diego) and William Clay (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearing aid focusing system is provided to enables a user to hear an environmental sound. The focusing system adaptively adjusts a hearing aid in response to visual information about a user environment from one or more image capture devices. The focusing system analyzes images captured of the environment to identify one or more sources ...