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UTILIZING TELECOIL COMPATIBILITY ON A MOBILE DEVICE FOR IMPROVING FREQUENCY RANGE OF MULTIMEDIA PLAYBACK

  • US 20160021229A1
  • Filed: 07/15/2014
  • Published: 01/21/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for augmenting multimedia playback on a mobile device, comprising:

  • the mobile device, comprising a telecoil transmitter configured to generate an electromagnetic field carrying an audio signal, the mobile device being configured to be operated in a hearing-aid compatible (HAC) voice call mode and a multimedia mode, wherein an audio processing unit of the mobile device is configured to, in the HAC voice call mode, provide a voice call audio signal to the telecoil transmitter for transmission to a hearing aid device and configured to, in the multimedia mode, provide a multimedia audio signal to the telecoil transmitter for transmission to an auxiliary loudspeaker device, wherein the multimedia audio signal is based on multimedia audio content to be played in part by the mobile device; and

    the auxiliary loudspeaker device, comprising a telecoil and a loudspeaker, configured to receive the multimedia audio signal via the telecoil and to play a low frequency portion of the multimedia audio content.

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