標題: ELECTRICAL STIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS TO STIMULATE NERVE FIBERS
作者: CHOI CHARLES TAK-MING
Lee Yi-Hsuan
公開日期: 22-Sep-2011
摘要: The present invention provides an electrical stimulation method and apparatus to stimulate nerve fibers, turning on suitable combination of adjacent electrodes simultaneously to form virtual channels based on predetermined rules, so that the stimulation signal will generate or evoke a nerve response spectrum that matches the original signal spectrum presented as the input sound. The method includes the steps of receiving a sound signal by a receiving unit; dividing the received sound signal into a plurality of frequency bands by a processing unit; extracting a spectral peak from each of the frequency bands and determining a stimulation sequence of frequency bands by the processing unit; and selectively driving a plurality of electrode groups in a plurality of cycles based on the stimulation sequence of frequency bands and a determination rule by the processing unit, so that the nerve response that matches the original signal will be generated.
官方說明文件#: A61N001/36
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/105260
專利國: USA
專利號碼: 20110230933
Appears in Collections:Patents


Files in This Item:

  1. 20110230933.pdf

If it is a zip file, please download the file and unzip it, then open index.html in a browser to view the full text content.