Hearing aid with wireless remote processor

A technology of a processor unit and a hearing aid system, used in hearing aids, full-ear canal hearing aids, and adaptation of hearing aids for hearing loss

Inactive Publication Date: 2003-05-14
詹姆斯C·安德森
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[0005] Although cordless and cellular telephone handsets (and wireless communication handsets) are known in the art to contain microphones, radio transceivers (transmitter and receiver) and speakers, such devices are not intended to be used in hearing aid applications to hear from the surrounding environment. Receive, amplify and reproduce audio signals in

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[0027] A preferred embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in block diagram form in FIG. In this figure, the earphone 10 worn in the ear 11 uses a standard completely in the canal (CIC) housing well known in the art, but many other known forms of earphone housings well known in the art may also be used ( For example, behind the ear, or BTE). The headset shown in FIG. 1 includes a microphone 12 , an RF transceiver 13 with an antenna also used as a headset extractor 14 , and a speaker 15 . While the dual purpose antenna / extractor arrangement shown in Figure 1 is generally suitable, a single antenna or several antennas may be used together with many different forms of earphone extractors suitable for a particular application. Several antennae or several extractors can be disguised as ear hairs or ornaments (such as earrings), or by using a method similar to ear piercing to permanently implant conductive wires in the ear cartilage as antennae. The headset 10 communica...

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A hearing aid or audio communication system includes an earpiece 10 that can be hidden in the ear canal, and which communicates wirelessly with a remote processor unit, or RPU 16, that enhances audio signals and can be concealed under clothing. Sounds from the environment are picked up by a microphone 12 in the earpiece and sent with other information over a two-way wireless link 17 to the RPU 16. The wireless link 17 uses microwaves for component miniaturization. Furthermore, use of radar technology to implement the wireless link 17, with an RPU 16 interrogator and earpiece 10 transponder, reduces earpiece size and power, as no microwave oscillator is needed in the earpiece 10. Optional secondary wireless link circuitry 19 can be used between the RPU 16 and a cellular telephone system or other sources of information. Electronic voice recognition and response can control system operation.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a hearing aid, and more particularly to a hearing aid having an ear cup worn in or on the ear and a remote processor unit (RPU) worn by the user or placed near the user to wirelessly receive information from the earphone signal and send the signal to the headphones. The invention also relates to the use of hearing aid systems as radio communication devices for hands-free cellular telephones and mobile radio communication "handsets", concealed operation and control of hearing aids, hearing protection and noise cancellation with simultaneous binaural hearing aid function, hearing tests devices, positioning of misplaced hearing aid system components and radiocochlear implants. Background technique [0002] In the prior art, a basic hearing aid without remote control is a self-contained earphone comprising a microphone, speaker and associated processor electronics. In this type of hearing aid, the earphone microphone conv...

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IPC IPC(8): H04M1/60H04R25/00H04R25/04
CPCH04R2225/023H04R25/305H04R2225/51H04R2460/07H04R25/552H04M1/6066H04R25/04H04M1/72538H04R25/70H04R25/554H04B1/385G16H40/67H04M1/72421H04R25/558H04R25/00
Inventor 詹姆斯C·安德森
Owner 詹姆斯C·安德森
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