HEARING ASSISTANCE SYTEM AND METHOD
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Abstract
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).
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32 Claims
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1-16. -16. (canceled)
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17. A system for providing hearing assistance to at least one user, comprising:
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at least one audio signal source for providing audio signals; a transmission unit for wireless transmission of audio signals; at least one receiver unit for wireless reception of audio signals from the transmission unit; means for stimulating hearing of the user according to audio signals supplied from the at least one receiver unit, wherein the transmission unit comprises both an analog transmitter for applying an analog modulation scheme and a digital transmitter for applying a digital modulation scheme to the audio signals from the audio signal source and for simultaneously transmitting the audio signals via an analog audio link and a digital audio link. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A method for providing hearing assistance to at least one user, comprising the steps of:
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providing audio signals from at least one audio signal source to a transmission unit, transmitting audio signals wirelessly from the transmission unit to at least one receiver unit, stimulating hearing of the at least one user according to audio signals supplied from the at least one receiver unit, wherein the transmission unit comprises both an analog transmitter applying an analog modulation scheme and a digital transmitter applying a digital modulation scheme to the audio signals, said transmitting step comprising transmitting of the audio signals from the audio signal source simultaneously via an analog audio link and a digital audio link.
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