A monitoring device configured to be attached within a portion of an ear of a subject includes an elastomeric arm having opposite first and second end portions. A sensing element is located at the elastomeric arm second end portion and includes at least one energy emitter configured to direct energy at a target region of the ear and at least one detector configured to detect an energy response signal from the target region or a region adjacent the target region. The monitoring device is configured such that the elastomeric arm first end portion engages the ear at a first location within the ear and such that the elastomeric arm resiliently bends such that a surface of the sensing element is urged into contact with the ear at a second location within the ear.

Optimizing and/or personalizing activities to a user through artificial intelligence and/or virtual reality.

An expert diagnosis system integrated in a hearing prosthesis system is configured to diagnosis, grade, and remediate inner ear crises. In particular, the expert diagnosis system analyzes combinations of in-situ measured inner ear potentials, obtained in response to electrical and/or acoustic stimulation, in order to identify crisis signatures and to correlate those crisis signatures to clinical symptoms of a specific type and cause of an inner ear crises (i.e., automatically diagnosis the inner ear crisis). The expert system is further configured to grade the severity of the identified clinical symptoms and initiate some form of remedial action to address the identified inner ear crisis.

An OCT apparatus and method for characterization of a fluid adjacent to a tympanic membrane has a low coherence source which is coupled to a splitter which has a measurement path and a reference path. The reference path is temporally modulated for length, and the combined signals from the reference path and the measurement path are applied to a detector. The detector examines the width of the response and the time variation when an optional excitation source is applied to the tympanic membrane, the width of the response and the time variation forming a metric indicating the viscosity of a fluid adjacent to the tympanic membrane being measured.

A measurement device includes a light emitting element configured to irradiate a blood vessel of a subject with light, a light receiving element configured to output an optical signal from the subject as an electric signal, and a controller electrically connected to the light receiving element. The controller estimates a heart rate of the subject on the basis of a part of a plurality of frequency components included in output of the light receiving element.

Hearing assistance systems, devices and methods including obtaining, by the device, multiple brain and bio-signals indicative of the auditory and visual attentional focus of the user, obtaining a mixed sound signal from multiple sound sources and applying, by the device, speech-separation and enhancement processing to the mixed sound signal to derive a plurality of separated signals that each contains signals corresponding to different groups of the multiple sound sources, and selecting one of the pluralities of separated signals either solely based on the obtained brain signals, or on a combination of bio-signals, including but not limited to eye gaze direction, head, neck and trunk orientation, etc. The separated signals may then be processed (i.e., amplified, attenuated) based on the needs of the user.

An ear probe assembly comprising a housing structure and a first transducer and a second transducer arranged in said housing structure is disclosed. The ear probe assembly further comprising a channel structure comprising at least a first transducer entrance and a second transducer entrance configured to receive first and second sound ports of the transducers, where further a tip portion is configured to engage with the channel structure in a detachable manner.

An earphone device includes a housing comprising a top region and a bottom region, an acoustic transducer disposed in the bottom region of the housing, and a radar system disposed in the top region of the housing. The radar system includes a first side and an opposite second side. The radar system is configured to detect a first object located on the first side of the radar system, and detect biometric data from a second object located on the second side of the radar system.

Ear-wearable device of measuring physiological signals disclosed. The ear-wearable device may include a body to be placed on a back of an ear, an ear hook, having one end coupled to the body and placed in front of the ear to fix the body to the ear, an oximeter, configured for measuring a saturation of percutaneous oxygen and having a detection surface disposed near the other end of the ear hook, an in-ear thermometer being connected to the body by a flexible cord, and a wireless transceiver, configured for wirelessly transmitting measurements of the oximeter and the in-ear thermometer.

Technology for a wearable heart rate monitoring device is disclosed. The wearable heart rate monitoring device can include a heart rate sensor operable to collect sensor data, a modulator operable to generate a modulated signal that includes the sensor data, a housing configured to engage a body feature or surface in a manner that allows for heart rate detection, and a communication module configured to transmit the sensor data in the modulated signal to a mobile computing device via a wired connection that is power limited. The mobile computing device is typically configured to demodulate the modulated signal in order to extract the sensor data.