公开(公告)号：US20120224732A1

公开(公告)日：2012-09-06

申请号：US13508825

申请日：2009-11-17

申请人： Marc Secall ,  Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Rainer Platz ,  Doninique Aparicio ,  Timothée Jost ,  Christoph Schmid

发明人： Marc Secall ,  Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Rainer Platz ,  Doninique Aparicio ,  Timothée Jost ,  Christoph Schmid

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04R25/43 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R27/00 ,  H04R2225/55

摘要： A system for providing hearing assistance to at least one user, having: at least one audio signal source (16, 20) for providing audio signals; a transmission unit (10) for wireless transmission of audio signals; at least one receiver unit (12, 14) for wireless reception of audio signals from the transmission unit; a device (42, 82) for stimulating the hearing of the user according to audio signals supplied from the at least one receiver unit. The transmission unit has both an analog transmitter (26) for applying an analog modulation scheme and a digital transmitter (28) for applying a digital modulation scheme in order to transmit the audio signals from the audio signal source (16, 20) simultaneously via an analog audio link (34) and a digital audio link (40).

摘要翻译： 一种用于向至少一个用户提供听力辅助的系统，具有：用于提供音频信号的至少一个音频信号源（16,20） 用于音频信号的无线传输的传输单元（10）; 至少一个用于从所述传输单元无线接收音频信号的接收器单元（12,14） 用于根据从所述至少一个接收器单元提供的音频信号刺激所述用户的听觉的装置（42,82）。 发送单元具有用于施加模拟调制方案的模拟发送器（26）和用于施加数字调制方案的数字发送器（28），以便经由以下方式同时从音频信号源（16,20）发送音频信号： 模拟音频链路（34）和数字音频链路（40）。

公开(公告)号：US08693715B2

公开(公告)日：2014-04-08

申请号：US13508825

申请日：2009-11-17

申请人： Marc Secall ,  Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Rainer Platz ,  Doninique Aparicio ,  Timothée Jost ,  Christoph Schmid

发明人： Marc Secall ,  Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Rainer Platz ,  Doninique Aparicio ,  Timothée Jost ,  Christoph Schmid

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04R25/43 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R27/00 ,  H04R2225/55

摘要： A system for providing hearing assistance to at least one user, having: at least one audio signal source (16, 20) for providing audio signals; a transmission unit (10) for wireless transmission of audio signals; at least one receiver unit (12, 14) for wireless reception of audio signals from the transmission unit; a device (42, 82) for stimulating the hearing of the user according to audio signals supplied from the at least one receiver unit. The transmission unit has both an analog transmitter (26) for applying an analog modulation scheme and a digital transmitter (28) for applying a digital modulation scheme in order to transmit the audio signals from the audio signal source (16, 20) simultaneously via an analog audio link (34) and a digital audio link (40).

摘要翻译： 一种用于向至少一个用户提供听力辅助的系统，具有：用于提供音频信号的至少一个音频信号源（16,20） 用于音频信号的无线传输的传输单元（10）; 至少一个用于从所述传输单元无线接收音频信号的接收器单元（12,14） 用于根据从所述至少一个接收器单元提供的音频信号刺激所述用户的听觉的装置（42,82）。 发送单元具有用于施加模拟调制方案的模拟发送器（26）和用于施加数字调制方案的数字发送器（28），以便经由以下方式同时从音频信号源（16,20）发送音频信号： 模拟音频链路（34）和数字音频链路（40）。

公开(公告)号：US20120314890A1

公开(公告)日：2012-12-13

申请号：US13577983

申请日：2010-02-12

申请人： Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Christoph Schmid ,  Timothée Jost ,  Rainer Platz ,  Marc Secall

发明人： Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Christoph Schmid ,  Timothée Jost ,  Rainer Platz ,  Marc Secall

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558

摘要： A hearing assistance system having a plurality of transmission units, a microphone arrangement and a digital transmitter for transmitting audio signals as audio data packets via a wireless digital audio link; at least one user worn receiver unit; a relay unit with a mixing unit for producing a mixed audio signal from audio signals received and at least one digital transceiver for receiving audio signals from the transmission units via the digital audio link and for transmitting the mixed audio signal via the wireless digital audio link as audio data packets to a digital receiver of the receiver unit(s) for stimulating the hearing of the user(s) according to audio signals supplied from the receiver unit, the relay unit and each transmission unit transmitting each audio data packet in at least one allocated separate slot of a TDMA frame at a different frequency according to a frequency hopping sequence.

摘要翻译： 具有多个发送单元的助听系统，麦克风装置和数字发送器，用于经由无线数字音频链路将音频信号作为音频数据包发送; 至少一个用户佩戴的接收器单元; 具有混合单元的中继单元，用于从接收到的音频信号产生混合音频信号，以及至少一个数字收发器，用于经由数字音频链路从传输单元接收音频信号，并经由无线数字音频链路发送混合音频信号作为 音频数据分组发送到接收机单元的数字接收机，用于根据从接收机单元提供的音频信号刺激用户的听觉，中继单元和每个传输单元在至少一个传送单元中传送每个音频数据分组 根据跳频序列以不同的频率分配TDMA帧的单独时隙。

公开(公告)号：US09832575B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-28

申请号：US14373140

申请日：2012-01-20

申请人： Marc Secall ,  Timothée Jost ,  Amre El-Hoiydi

发明人： Marc Secall ,  Timothée Jost ,  Amre El-Hoiydi

IPC分类号： H04J3/00 ,  H04R25/00 ,  G10L19/16 ,  G10L19/24 ,  G10L19/008 ,  H04W88/18 ,  G10L19/04 ,  H04B1/713

CPC分类号： H04R25/554 ,  G10L19/008 ,  G10L19/04 ,  G10L19/167 ,  G10L19/24 ,  H04B1/713 ,  H04B2201/71361 ,  H04W88/181

摘要： A system for providing sound to at least one user has at least one audio signal source, a transmission unit with a digital transmitter audio data packets from the audio signal source via a wireless digital audio link; at least one receiver unit having at least one digital receiver; and a hearing stimulator responsive to audio signals from the receiver unit. The transmission unit encodes the audio signal as audio data blocks distributed onto at least two audio data packets, one of which is a low-quality packet, and one of which is a high quality packet only a low-quality version of the audio signal being retrievable from the low-quality packets, and a high-quality version of the audio signal being retrievable from both the low-quality packets and the high-quality packets. The low-quality packets and the high-quality packets are transmitted in respective dedicated slots of a multiple access protocol frame.

公开(公告)号：US09681236B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-13

申请号：US14008792

申请日：2011-03-30

申请人： Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Marc Secall

发明人： Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Marc Secall

IPC分类号： H04B3/00 ,  H04R25/00 ,  G10L19/005 ,  G10L19/018

CPC分类号： H04R25/554 ,  G10L19/005 ,  G10L19/018 ,  H04R25/558 ,  H04R27/00 ,  H04R2227/003 ,  H04R2420/07

摘要： Method for providing sound to at least one user, involves supplying audio signals from an audio signal source to a transmission unit; compressing the audio signals to generate compressed audio data; transmitting compressed audio data from the transmission unit to at least one receiver unit; decompressing the compressed audio data to generate decompressed audio signals; and stimulating the hearing of the user(s) according to decompressed audio signals supplied from the receiver unit. During certain time periods, transmission of compressed audio data is interrupted, and instead, at least one control data block is generated by the transmission unit in such a manner that audio data transmission is replaced by control data block transmission, thereby temporarily interrupting flow of received compressed audio data, each control data block includes a marker recognized by the at least one receiver unit as a control data block and a command for control of the receiver unit.

公开(公告)号：US20140056451A1

公开(公告)日：2014-02-27

申请号：US14008792

申请日：2011-03-30

申请人： Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Marc Secall

发明人： Amre El-Hoiydi ,  Marc Secall

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/554 ,  G10L19/005 ,  G10L19/018 ,  H04R25/558 ,  H04R27/00 ,  H04R2227/003 ,  H04R2420/07

摘要： Method for providing sound to at least one user, involves supplying audio signals from an audio signal source to a transmission unit; compressing the audio signals to generate compressed audio data; transmitting compressed audio data from the transmission unit to at least one receiver unit; decompressing the compressed audio data to generate decompressed audio signals; and stimulating the hearing of the user(s) according to decompressed audio signals supplied from the receiver unit. During certain time periods, transmission of compressed audio data is interrupted, and instead, at least one control data block is generated by the transmission unit in such a manner that audio data transmission is replaced by control data block transmission, thereby temporarily interrupting flow of received compressed audio data, each control data block includes a marker recognized by the at least one receiver unit as a control data block and a command for control of the receiver unit.

摘要翻译： 用于向至少一个用户提供声音的方法包括将音频信号从音频信号源提供给传输单元; 压缩音频信号以产生压缩音频数据; 将压缩音频数据从所述传输单元发送到至少一个接收器单元; 解压缩压缩音频数据以产生解压缩的音频信号; 以及根据从接收器单元提供的解压缩音频信号来刺激用户的听觉。 在某些时间段期间，压缩音频数据的传输被中断，而是传输单元产生至少一个控制数据块，使得音频数据传输被控制数据块传输替换，从而暂时中断接收的流 压缩音频数据，每个控制数据块包括由至少一个接收机单元识别为一个控制数据块的标记和用于控制接收机单元的命令。

公开(公告)号：US09215535B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-15

申请号：US13989234

申请日：2010-11-24

申请人： Yves Oesch ,  Claude Richard ,  Timothee Jost ,  Marc Secall ,  Christoph Schmid ,  Rainer Platz ,  Evert Dijkstra

发明人： Yves Oesch ,  Claude Richard ,  Timothee Jost ,  Marc Secall ,  Christoph Schmid ,  Rainer Platz ,  Evert Dijkstra

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/552 ,  H04R25/407 ,  H04R25/554

摘要： A hearing assistance system and method for wireless RF audio signal transmission from at least one audio signal source to ear level receivers, wherein a close-to-natural hearing impression is to be achieved. At least one parameter of the RF signal as received from a transmission unit at a respective receiver unit to create left ear RF signal measurement data and right ear RF signal measurement data, respectively. The angular localization of each transmission unit is obtained by comparing, for each transmission unit, the left ear RF signal measurement data and the right ear RF signal measurement data. The audio signals are processed and distributed according to the estimated angular localization of each transmission unit in a manner so that the angular localization impression of the audio signals from each transmission unit as perceived by the user corresponds to the estimated angular localization of the respective transmission unit.

摘要翻译： 一种用于从至少一个音频信号源到耳朵级接收器的无线RF音频信号传输的听觉辅助系统和方法，其中将实现接近自然的听觉印象。 分别从相应接收机单元的发送单元接收的RF信号的至少一个参数，以分别创建左耳RF信号测量数据和右耳RF信号测量数据。 通过对于每个发送单元比较左耳RF信号测量数据和右耳RF信号测量数据来获得每个发送单元的角度定位。 音频信号根据每个传输单元的估计的角度定位被处理和分布，使得由用户感知的来自每个传输单元的音频信号的角度定位印象对应于相应传输单元的估计的角度定位 。

公开(公告)号：US20130259237A1

公开(公告)日：2013-10-03

申请号：US13989234

申请日：2010-11-24

申请人： Yves Oesch ,  Claude Richard ,  Timothee Jost ,  Marc Secall ,  Christoph Schmid ,  Rainer Platz ,  Evert Dijkstra

发明人： Yves Oesch ,  Claude Richard ,  Timothee Jost ,  Marc Secall ,  Christoph Schmid ,  Rainer Platz ,  Evert Dijkstra

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/552 ,  H04R25/407 ,  H04R25/554

摘要： A hearing assistance system and method for wireless RF audio signal transmission from at least one audio signal source to ear level receivers, wherein a close-to-natural hearing impression is to be achieved. At least one parameter of the RF signal as received from a transmission unit at a respective receiver unit to create left ear RF signal measurement data and right ear RF signal measurement data, respectively. The angular localization of each transmission unit is obtained by comparing, for each transmission unit, the left ear RF signal measurement data and the right ear RF signal measurement data. The audio signals are processed and distributed according to the estimated angular localization of each transmission unit in a manner so that the angular localization impression of the audio signals from each transmission unit as perceived by the user corresponds to the estimated angular localization of the respective transmission unit.

摘要翻译： 一种用于从至少一个音频信号源到耳朵级接收器的无线RF音频信号传输的听觉辅助系统和方法，其中将实现接近自然的听觉印象。 分别从相应接收机单元的发送单元接收的RF信号的至少一个参数，以分别创建左耳RF信号测量数据和右耳RF信号测量数据。 通过对于每个发送单元比较左耳RF信号测量数据和右耳RF信号测量数据来获得每个发送单元的角度定位。 音频信号根据每个传输单元的估计的角度定位被处理和分布，使得由用户感知的来自每个传输单元的音频信号的角度定位印象对应于相应传输单元的估计的角度定位 。

公开(公告)号：US20120288128A1

公开(公告)日：2012-11-15

申请号：US13508849

申请日：2009-11-17

申请人： Timothée Jost ,  Marc Secall

发明人： Timothée Jost ,  Marc Secall

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04R25/43 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R27/00 ,  H04R2225/55

摘要： A system for providing hearing assistance to at least one user, having: at least one audio signal source; a first transmission unit with a digital transmitter for applying a digital modulation to the audio signals and to transmit the audio signals via a digital audio link; a second transmission unit with a digital receiver for receiving the audio signals transmitted via the digital audio link and an analog transmitter for applying an analog modulation to the received audio signals and to transmit the audio signals via an analog audio link; at least one first receiver unit having a digital receiver for receiving signals from the digital transmitter and at least one second receiver unit with an analog receiver for receiving signals from the analog transmitter; and a device for stimulating the hearing of a user according to audio signals supplied from the first and second receiver units.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向至少一个用户提供听力辅助的系统，具有：至少一个音频信号源; 具有数字发射器的第一传输单元，用于将数字调制应用于音频信号并通过数字音频链路发送音频信号; 具有用于接收经由数字音频链路发送的音频信号的数字接收机的第二传输单元和用于对所接收的音频信号施加模拟调制并经由模拟音频链路传输音频信号的模拟发射机; 至少一个第一接收器单元具有用于从数字发射器接收信号的数字接收器和具有用于从模拟发射器接收信号的模拟接收器的至少一个第二接收器单元; 以及用于根据从第一和第二接收机单元提供的音频信号来刺激用户听觉的设备。

公开(公告)号：US08737651B2

公开(公告)日：2014-05-27

申请号：US13508849

申请日：2009-11-17

申请人： Timothée Jost ,  Marc Secall

发明人： Timothée Jost ,  Marc Secall

IPC分类号： H04R25/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04R25/43 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R27/00 ,  H04R2225/55

摘要： A system for providing hearing assistance to at least one user, having: at least one audio signal source; a first transmission unit with a digital transmitter for applying a digital modulation to the audio signals and to transmit the audio signals via a digital audio link; a second transmission unit with a digital receiver for receiving the audio signals transmitted via the digital audio link and an analog transmitter for applying an analog modulation to the received audio signals and to transmit the audio signals via an analog audio link; at least one first receiver unit having a digital receiver for receiving signals from the digital transmitter and at least one second receiver unit with an analog receiver for receiving signals from the analog transmitter; and a device for stimulating the hearing of a user according to audio signals supplied from the first and second receiver units.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向至少一个用户提供听力辅助的系统，具有：至少一个音频信号源; 具有数字发射器的第一传输单元，用于将数字调制应用于音频信号并通过数字音频链路发送音频信号; 具有用于接收经由数字音频链路发送的音频信号的数字接收机的第二传输单元和用于对所接收的音频信号施加模拟调制并经由模拟音频链路传输音频信号的模拟发射机; 至少一个第一接收器单元具有用于从数字发射器接收信号的数字接收器和具有用于从模拟发射器接收信号的模拟接收器的至少一个第二接收器单元; 以及用于根据从第一和第二接收机单元提供的音频信号来刺激用户听觉的设备。