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：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：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：US20120310394A1

公开(公告)日：2012-12-06

申请号：US13577959

申请日：2010-02-12

申请人： Amre El-Hoiydi

发明人： Amre El-Hoiydi

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04B7/0667 ,  H04B7/0817 ,  H04B7/0822 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R2225/55

摘要： A system for providing sound to at least one user, having at least one audio signal source for providing audio signals; a transmission unit with a digital transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the audio signals as data packets; at least one receiver unit with at least one digital receiver for reception of the audio signals from the transmission unit; a mechanism for stimulating the hearing of the user(s) according to audio signals supplied from the receiver unit. The transmission unit transmits each data packet in a separate slot of a TDMA frame at a different frequency in a frequency hopping sequence, in at least some of the slots, the audio signals are transmitted as audio data packets, the same audio packet being transmitted at least twice in the same TDMA frame without expecting acknowledgement, and the TDMA frames being structured for unidirectional broadcast transmission of the audio data packets.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向至少一个用户提供声音的系统，具有用于提供音频信号的至少一个音频信号源; 具有数字发送器的发送单元，用于将音频信号无线发送为数据分组; 至少一个具有至少一个数字接收器的接收器单元，用于从所述传输单元接收音频信号; 用于根据从接收器单元提供的音频信号来刺激用户的听觉的机构。 传输单元在跳频序列中以不同频率在TDMA帧的单独时隙中发送每个数据分组，在至少一些时隙中，将音频信号作为音频数据分组传输，相同的音频分组以 在相同TDMA帧中至少两次，而不期望确认，并且TDMA帧被构造用于音频数据分组的单向广播传输。

公开(公告)号：US20120308034A1

公开(公告)日：2012-12-06

申请号：US13577969

申请日：2010-02-12

申请人： Amre El-Hoiydi

发明人： Amre El-Hoiydi

IPC分类号： H04B3/00

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04B7/0671 ,  H04B7/0817 ,  H04B7/0822 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R2225/55

摘要： A system providing sound to a user, having at least one audio signal source; a transmission unit with a digital transmitter which transmits audio signals via a wireless digital audio link as audio data packets, each packet having a start frame delimiter, audio data and a frame check sequence; at least one receiver unit having at least two digital receivers connected to a common processing unit and an antenna, and including a demodulator and a buffer, and a mechanism for stimulating the hearing of the user. Each receiver receives, verifies and buffers the audio data packets, and the processing unit reads an audio data packet from the buffer of one of the receivers. If the packet is correctly received by the receiver, the buffer of the other receivers is flushed, and if the packet has been incorrectly received, the audio data packet from the buffer of another receiver is read.

摘要翻译： 一种向用户提供声音的系统，具有至少一个音频信号源; 具有数字发送器的发送单元，其经由无线数字音频链路作为音频数据分组发送音频信号，每个分组具有起始帧定界符，音频数据和帧校验序列; 至少一个具有连接到公共处理单元和天线的至少两个数字接收器的接收器单元，并且包括解调器和缓冲器，以及用于刺激用户的听觉的机构。 每个接收器接收，验证和缓冲音频数据分组，并且处理单元从一个接收机的缓冲器读取音频数据分组。 如果分组被接收机正确接收，则其他接收机的缓冲器被刷新，并且如果分组被错误地接收到，则读取来自另一接收机的缓冲器的音频数据分组。

公开(公告)号：US09137613B2

公开(公告)日：2015-09-15

申请号：US13577959

申请日：2010-02-12

申请人： Amre El-Hoiydi

发明人： Amre El-Hoiydi

IPC分类号： G06F17/00 ,  H04R25/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08

CPC分类号： H04R25/558 ,  H04B7/0667 ,  H04B7/0817 ,  H04B7/0822 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04R2225/55

摘要： A system for providing sound to at least one user, having at least one audio signal source for providing audio signals; a transmission unit with a digital transmitter for wirelessly transmitting the audio signals as data packets; at least one receiver unit with at least one digital receiver for reception of the audio signals from the transmission unit; a mechanism for stimulating the hearing of the user(s) according to audio signals supplied from the receiver unit. The transmission unit transmits each data packet in a separate slot of a TDMA frame at a different frequency in a frequency hopping sequence, in at least some of the slots, the audio signals are transmitted as audio data packets, the same audio packet being transmitted at least twice in the same TDMA frame without expecting acknowledgement, and the TDMA frames being structured for unidirectional broadcast transmission of the audio data packets.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向至少一个用户提供声音的系统，具有用于提供音频信号的至少一个音频信号源; 具有数字发送器的发送单元，用于将音频信号无线发送为数据分组; 至少一个具有至少一个数字接收器的接收器单元，用于从所述传输单元接收音频信号; 用于根据从接收器单元提供的音频信号来刺激用户的听觉的机构。 传输单元在跳频序列中以不同频率在TDMA帧的单独时隙中发送每个数据分组，在至少一些时隙中，将音频信号作为音频数据分组传输，相同的音频分组以 在相同的TDMA帧中至少两次，而不期望确认，并且TDMA帧被构造用于音频数据分组的单向广播传输。

公开(公告)号：US20120310395A1

公开(公告)日：2012-12-06

申请号：US13577972

申请日：2010-02-12

申请人： Amre El-Hoiydi

发明人： Amre El-Hoiydi

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： H04W48/16 ,  H04R25/554 ,  H04W52/0229 ,  H04W84/18 ,  Y02D70/142 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/22

摘要： A system for providing sound to at least one user, having an audio signal source; a transmission unit with a digital transmitter which wirelessly transmits audio signals digitally as data packets, at least one receiver unit with at least one digital receiver and a mechanism for stimulating user hearing. Each data packet is transmitted in a separate slot of a TDMA frame at a different frequency according to a frequency hopping sequence, the first slot of each frame being a beacon packet containing hopping frequency information. Each receiver unit passively synchronizes to the transmission unit without sending messages to it by periodically waking to listen for the beacon packets, the listening frequency channel changing according to a fixed scheme from listening period to listening period, the beacon listening periodicity differing from the beacon transmission periodicity, each receiver unit switching into a synchronized mode after successful receipt of a beacon packet.

摘要翻译： 一种用于向至少一个用户提供声音的系统，具有音频信号源; 具有数字发送器的发送单元，其以数字方式无线地传输音频信号作为数据分组，至少一个具有至少一个数字接收器的接收器单元和用于刺激用户听力的机构。 每个数据分组根据跳频序列以不同频率在TDMA帧的单独时隙中发送，每帧的第一时隙是包含跳频信息的信标分组。 每个接收机单元被动地同步到发送单元，而不通过周期性地唤醒监听信标分组来发送消息，监听频率信道根据从监听周期到监听周期的固定方案改变，信标监听周期不同于信标传输 周期性，每个接收机单元在成功接收到信标分组之后切换到同步模式。