Bluetooth transmission facility for hearing devices, and corresponding transmission method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8666314
APP PUB NO 20080013763A1
SERIAL NO

11823041

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A wireless audio transmission, for example from a television to a hearing device, is to be achieved simply and with a low signal delay. For this purpose are proposed a transmission facility with a transmission device for transmitting audio data in a signal conforming to a Bluetooth® communications protocol, a hearing-aid-specific coder which is integrated into the transmission device for the purpose of compressing the audio data before its transmission, and a relay station for converting the Bluetooth® signal from the transmission device into a signal for inductive transmission to the hearing device. In the relay station, no recoding is performed during the conversion. The transmission device transmits in accordance with the Bluetooth® A2DP protocol. The hearing-aid-specific coder has a lower sampling rate than the standard Bluetooth® coder SBC. Encoding delays and processing delays in the relay station can be minimized by this system.

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SIVANTOS GMBH91058 ERLANGEN

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Lotter, Thomas Nürnberg, DE 11 242
Reithinger, Jürgen Neunkirchen am Brand, DE 12 49

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