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Remote Control, Wireless, Or Alarm

Remote Control, Wireless, Or Alarm patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

11/22/07 - 20070269065 - Apparatus and method for operating a hearing aid
A programmable hearing aid including means for receiving and transmitting data wirelessly from and to a portable module being in proximity to said hearing aid. Said portable module has means for transmitting audio signals, fitting data or special instructions to the hearing aid processor and including means for receiving data ...

10/04/07 - 20070230728 - Aided ear bud
An aided ear bud device is provided that operates as a hearing aid device as well as an ear bud device for a wireless phone. The aided ear bud normally operates as a hearing aid device. The aided ear bud state is changed by a verified input from a wireless ...

08/23/07 - 20070195978 - Method for communicating with a hearing aid
Data is transferred to and from a hearing aid by transmitting an audible carrier having a frequency greater than 5 kilohertz, modulating the carrier with data, and detecting the modulated carrier in the hearing aid with a narrow band filter. The frequency is in a region where impairment occurs and ...

08/16/07 - 20070189562 - Contact-less electric switch
A contact-less electric switch applied to an electric device includes a detector and controlling circuits. The detector including a microphone is used for detecting waves through the microphone and generating an electrical signal accordingly. The controlling circuits are connected with the electric device and the detector for receiving the electrical ...

07/19/07 - 20070165892 - Wireless audio
An audio reproduction system comprises a transmitter device (1) and a receiver device (2). The transmitter device (1) determines the envelope signal of an audio signal (Vin) of a selected frequency range and transmits the envelope signal (VE) over a communication channel (C). The receiver device (2) combines the received ...

06/28/07 - 20070147641 - Wireless hearing system and method for monitoring the same
A hearing system is provided, comprising a hearing device, an audio signal transmitter, an audio signal source for providing audio signals to the audio signal transmitter, an audio signal receiver unit adapted to establish a wireless link for transmission of the audio signals from the audio signal transmitter to the ...

06/21/07 - 20070140517 - Method and apparatus for wireless components for hearing communication devices
A hearing communication device with wireless components is provided. One aspect of this disclosure relates to hearing communication devices, which include, but are not limited to, hearing aids and other hearing assistance devices. According to an embodiment, the device includes an enclosure and at least one microphone within the enclosure. ...

05/31/07 - 20070121979 - Hearing aid having improved rf immunity to rf electromagnetic interference produced from a wireless communications device
A hearing aid has improved immunity to RF electromagnetic interference produced from wireless communications devices. A microphone receives audio signals from the environment. Audio circuitry is connected to the microphone and amplifies the audio signals. A speaker is connected to the audio circuitry and directs the audio signals into an ...

05/31/07 - 20070121978 - Digital hearing aid enhancing directional performance
A digital hearing aid enhancing a directional performance for a patient who suffers from sole-ear hearing impairments is provided, in which the digital hearing aid cell inserted into one healthy ear is electrically connected with another digital hearing aid cell called an ear cell including a microphone worn in the ...

05/03/07 - 20070098195 - Wireless hearing aid system and method
A wireless hearing aid system and method is disclosed that incorporates a traditional wireless transceiver headset and additional directional microphones to permit extension of the headset as a hearing aid. The disclosed invention also incorporates a mode selector and programmable audio filter to permit the headset to be wirelessly programmed ...

05/03/07 - 20070098194 - Hearing system, hearing device and method of operating and method of maintaining a hearing device
The hearing device is adapted to automatically requesting an establishment of a communication connection to at least one hearing device support provider. The hearing device support provider may comprise a person knowledgeable in hearing devices, at the hearing device seller and/or at the hearing device manufacturer, and it may comprise ...

03/29/07 - 20070071264 - Programmable remote control
A hearing system includes a hearing device with a signal processing unit. A control input of the signal processing unit is connected to a device communication port. A remote control device has a wireless communication port for single or bi-directional wireless communication with the device communication port. A computer is ...

03/29/07 - 20070071263 - Individually adjustable hearing apparatus
The application possibilities of a hearing apparatus which can be worn on the head of a user, which allows the adjustment of the signal processing in the hearing apparatus to individual user specifications as well as to the individual hearing ability of the user, is to be improved. For this ...

03/22/07 - 20070064963 - Audio peripheral for an electronic device
A peripheral for an electronic device having a speaker is provided. The peripheral includes an input device for placement proximal to the speaker for receiving audio information from the speaker. The peripheral includes an output device connected to the input device that is positioned distal from the input device and ...

03/01/07 - 20070047749 - Hearing aid with transponder device and corresponding data transmission method
The object is to automate and simplify the programming of a hearing aid or some other hearing apparatus. Toward that end provision is made to provide the hearing aid with a transponder device which is connected to a signal processing means and an antenna device of the hearing aid. By ...

02/15/07 - 20070036377 - Method of obtaining a characteristic, and hearing instrument
According to the invention, a hearing instrument comprising at least one inner microphone operable to determine a sensing signal representative of an acoustic signal at a position in front of the user's eardrum—which may be an acoustic signal at a position between an ITE (or ITC or CIC) hearing instrument ...

02/08/07 - 20070030988 - Method for the synchronization of signal tones and corresponding hearing aids
The output of signal tones from hearing aids for binaural coverage is to be synchronized. To this end, it is provided that the counters of the two hearing aids are equalized by a synchronization signal. By transmitting a control signal with a count value or before a predetermined count value, ...

02/01/07 - 20070025573 - Hearing device without reference clock component
A hearing device, in particular a hearing aid, occupies a small volume and has high data transmission speeds for wireless transmission. In order to avoid using large volume frequency-stable components, for this purpose, an oscillator unit with a free-running oscillator is used instead. A receiver receives a synchronization signal cyclically. ...

01/11/07 - 20070009126 - Hearing aid and method for its adjustment
A hearing aid and appertaining method of adjustment permit adjusting a hearing aid more conveniently and more specifically. For this purpose, parameters for real hearing situations are stored in a storage device in the hearing aid or in the remote control for an adjustment procedure by the hearing aid wearer ...

01/11/07 - 20070009125 - Push to lower hearing assisted device
A mechanism for switching a wireless device between normal operation and a lower-power mode is provided. A wireless device has a selection mechanism for reducing the power output of the wireless device. The wireless device then returns to a normal operation mode upon user release of the selection mechanism. ...

01/11/07 - 20070009124 - Hearing aid wireless network
A hearing aid is provided comprising a transceiver for interconnection of the hearing aid with a wireless network for communication with a plurality of other devices, and a communication controller that is adapted for controlling data exchange through the network in accordance with a simple network protocol. The hearing aid ...

01/11/07 - 20070009123 - Remote control unit for a hearing aid
A remote control device is provided for a hearing device, and which comprises an input interface which receives input information. A conversion device converts the input information into hearing device control commands. A transmission device transmits the hearing device control commands to the hearing device. ...

12/28/06 - 20060291680 - Communication system and hearing device
A communication system has a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver. The transmitter is built into a hearing device to be worn at one or both ears of an individual. The hearing device has an input acoustical-to-electrical converter unit and an output electrical-to-mechanical converter unit. The wireless transmitter is operationally ...

11/30/06 - 20060269088 - Multi-coil coupling system for hearing aid applications
A hearing improvement device using a multi-coil coupling system and methods for operating such a device are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may use an array microphone to provide highly directional reception. The received audio signal may be filtered, amplified, and converted into a magnetic field for coupling ...

11/23/06 - 20060262952 - Hearing-aid remote control
A remote control unit for wireless control of an electrical microdevice, such as a hearing aid or implanted medical device. An object worn or carried by a person, such as a wristwatch has a band attached thereto. A housing containing electronic circuitry of the remote control is arranged within the ...

11/02/06 - 20060245609 - Hearing device remote control unit as a network component and corresponding use thereof
The operation of appliances in a home network is to be made more user-friendly, for which purpose provision is made for the hearing device remote control unit to be integrated as a component in a network. This would, for example, enable warning signals triggered by the network to be provided ...

11/02/06 - 20060245608 - Wireless system and method thereof for hearing
A two-piece wireless hearing improvement system having a pocket piece and an earpiece, wherein the pocket piece includes a microphone adapted to receive analog signals, a first processor coupled to the microphone to convert the analog signals to digital signals, and a first transceiver coupled to the processor to transmit ...

09/21/06 - 20060210104 - Remote magnetic activation of hearing devices
An embodiment provides a user interface for remotely controlling the operational state of a hearing device positioned in the ear canal. The interface comprises a controller, a switch coupled to the controller and an audio port coupled to the controller. The controller switches between the operational states of a hearing ...

09/21/06 - 20060210103 - User control for hearing prostheses
A hearing prosthesis whereby the change of a parameter by the user is only possible in discrete maximum steps, with the availability for further increments being dependant upon some conditional event or occurrence (“condition” herein) represented by one or more parameters such as the time which has elapsed since some ...

09/21/06 - 20060210102 - Local telemetry device and method
Position tracking of a receiving device within a gas or fluidic environment (for example a human body), is performed by measuring acoustic wave propagation parameters to provide real time, high precision telemetry. Multiple synchronized acoustic sources at different known locations transmit signals that are received by a receiver on the ...

09/14/06 - 20060204024 - Remote control for a hearing aid
A remote control for a hearing aid is described, comprising a transmitter unit (12, 24) for wireless transmission of control signals to the hearing aid, a control unit (14) which causes the transmitter unit to transmit the control signals, at least one manually operable control element (16, 18, 20, 30, ...

08/24/06 - 20060188118 - Integrated hearing aid for telecommunications devices
A system integrates a hearing aid with devices such as wireless telephones, advantageously avoiding radio frequency (RF) interference. In one embodiment, a processor transforms an electrical signal to compensate for a hearing impairment. The function used for signal transformation can be accessed via a processor memory enhancement such as a ...

08/24/06 - 20060188117 - Method of outputting audio signal for the hard-of-hearing and mobile communication terminal using the method
A mobile communication terminal is provided, including: a receiver converting an audio signal outputted from the mobile communication terminal into an audible sound; a coupler dividing the audio signal outputted from the receiver into first and second audio signals which are different in phase from each other; an audio signal ...

08/24/06 - 20060188116 - Presence activated hearing assistive system
An electronic device includes a receiver, a processor, and a presence activation sensor configured to receive a signal from a user. The user signal includes a user specific performance parameter, or the user specific performance parameter may be accessed from a memory by the processor in response to the user ...

08/17/06 - 20060182295 - Dynamic hearing assistance system and method therefore
A system and method for hearing assistance with dynamic loudness adaptation of audio signals, first audio signals being captured by a first microphone (26) and transmitted by a transmission unit (22) over a communication channel (27) to a receiver (24) connected to a hearing instrument (15), and second audio signals ...

08/10/06 - 20060177081 - Data transmission device for wireless data transmission for hearing devices and corresponding method
ITE devices should also be accessible in a simple manner via further transmission paths. A converter unit with a high-frequency receive device is thus proposed for receiving high-frequency signals from an external transmit unit, said converter unit further comprising a mixing unit for mixing the high-frequency signal with a reference ...

06/29/06 - 20060140428 - Mobile wireless communications device with slidable configuration providing hearing aid compatibility features and related methods
A mobile wireless communications device is for a user wearing an electronic hearing aid adjacent an ear of the user and may include an upper housing and a lower housing being slidably connected together for sliding between a retracted position and an extended use position. An audio output transducer may ...

06/22/06 - 20060133633 - Mobile telephone with metal sensor
A mobile telephone including a hearing aid compatible system for coupling an output of the mobile telephone to a hearing aid device of a user; and a metal detector system adapted to detect a metal object brought into proximity relative to the mobile telephone. ...

06/08/06 - 20060120546 - Ear fixed type conversation device
An earset communication device capable of reliably suppressing transmission of microvibration to a microphone part. The earset communication device of the present invention is an earset communication device 1 attached to a human ear, which has a main body 2, a sound guide part 3 where a sound guide housing ...

05/04/06 - 20060093172 - Hearing aid system, a hearing aid and a method for processing audio signals
A composite hearing aid system comprises two hearing aids (11, 31) with respective microphones (12, 32) and electronic receivers (17, 37), a microphone (42) and a transmitter (41) adapted to transmit the signal from the microphone (42) to the electronic receivers. At least one of the hearing aids (11, 31) ...

03/30/06 - 20060067550 - Signal transmission between hearing aids
The range for transmission of signals between hearing aids is to be improved. To this end it is proposed that signals be transmitted between a first hearing aid worn by a first hearing aid wearer and a second hearing aid worn by a second hearing aid wearer. In this case ...

03/30/06 - 20060067549 - Method of operating a hearing aid system having at least two hearing aids
In a hearing aid the transmission and amplification of a useful signal is to be improved, especially in difficult environments, i.e. those susceptible to interference signals. To this end it is proposed that signals be transmitted between a first hearing aid worn by a first hearing aid wearer and a ...

02/23/06 - 20060039577 - Method and apparatus for wireless communication using an inductive interface
A system including a hearing assistance device sized for fitting a human ear, and adapted to communicate with a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver enables the hearing assistance device to communicate with other wireless devices. In varying embodiments, the hearing assistance device works with a near field communication network. By ...

01/26/06 - 20060018497 - Hearing aid system
The user (2) of a binaural hearing aid or communication system (1A, 1B) is to be provided with an easier assignment or identification of acoustic signals generated in the system for keeping a user (2) informed about current settings or states of the system. To this end the signal is ...

01/19/06 - 20060013423 - Method and system for selective coupling of a communication unit to a hearing enhancement device
The invention concerns a method (200) and system (100) for selectively coupling a communication unit (110) to a hearing enhancement device (112). The method includes the steps of—in the communication unit—selecting (212) between an acoustic coupling setting and an inductive coupling setting, in response to the selecting step, switching (214) ...

11/03/05 - 20050244022 - Hearing aid compatible device
A removable bezel (122) for use with an audio device (120) to enhance operation with a hearing aid (102). The removable bezel (122) has an electromagnetic coil (132) that is coupled to the audio output (124, 304, 404, 406) of the audio device. The electromagnetic coil (132) is either inductively ...

10/06/05 - 20050220316 - Wireless earphone with alternating extension and retraction functions
A wireless earphone with alternating extension and retraction functions is described. The earphone has adjustable connection lengths between an amplifier and a housing, a microphone and the housing respectively, and includes a housing having a earpiece, an amplifier, a first connection member capable of being alternatingly extended from and retracted ...

09/15/05 - 20050201578 - Method and arrangement for transmitting signals to a hearing aid
In a transmission apparatus for transmitting signals to a hearing device, as well as transmission and operating methods thereof, and a hearing aid apparatus, not only the acoustic path but also an electromagnetic path are used to transmit the same signal. So that the data rate can be reduced for ...

07/28/05 - 20050163333 - Hearing aid
The present invention relates to a hearing aid system comprising a hearing implant and a method of powering a hearing implant, the system comprising an external ear canal module and an implant, wherein the signalling and/or powering of the ear implant is by way of a light signal being provided ...

07/21/05 - 20050157896 - Hollow tube enclosing an implantable personal sound link module
A hollow tube device enclosing a personal sound link module is inserted into a tunnel (40) made through the soft tissue connecting the retro-auricular space (50) with the ear canal (30). The hollow tube device contains an acoustic transducer (65), located at the distal part (68) of an enclosed case, ...

06/23/05 - 20050135645 - Hearing aid with wireless transmission system, and operating method therefor
To allow bidirectional data communication to be realized in hearing aids which have only a restricted installation space, the earphone, i.e. the electroacoustic transducer unit, is used as the transmitter and the telephone coil as the receiver for high-frequency signal components. This makes it possible to dispense with the installation ...

06/02/05 - 20050117764 - Hearing aid and operating method for automatically switching to a telephone mode
In a hearing aid and method for automatically switching to a telephone mode, for automatically detecting a telephone situation for the wearer given a binaural supply, the difference between the levels of the input signals of the two hearing devices is measured and compared with at least one threshold value. ...

06/02/05 - 20050117763 - Hearing aid or similar audio device and method for producing a hearing aid
Hearing aid or similar device, where the device comprises at least one structural part whereto two or more spaced apart electronic components are fastened and where electric leads interconnects the electronic components and where the electric leads are provided on the surface of the structural part of the hearing aid. ...



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