User interfaces of a hearing device
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsJan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamically adjusting a user interface provided by an external unit of a hearing device. In an example method, the external unit determines whether a state of the external unit is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external and the stimulation unit are decoupled. The external unit then provides one of (i) a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state or (ii) a second user interface when the determined state is the decoupled state. The second user interface provides access to a greater number of functions of the hearing device than first user interface provides.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- determining, by at least one processor, whether a state of a hearing device unit is one of either in (i) a coupled state in which the hearing device is being worn by a person or (ii) an uncoupled state in which the hearing device unit is not being worn by a person;
- and
- providing, via a user interface component, a first user interface when the determined state is the coupled state;
- and
- providing, via the user interface component, a second user interface when the determined state is the uncoupled state, wherein the second user interface provides access to at least one hearing device function that is not available via first user interface.
A hearing device system, comprising:
- an external unit configured to be worn by a recipient;
- a sound processor configured to process audio input and to provide associated hearing-stimulation output;
- at least one user-interface component;
- a wireless communication interface;
- and
- at least one processor configured to determine whether the external unit is in a coupled state when the external unit is being worn by the recipient or an uncoupled state when the hearing device unit is not being worn by the recipient,
- wherein the at least one user-interface component is configured to provide a first user interface when the external unit is worn on the body of the user and (ii) a second user interface when the external unit is not worn on the body of the user, and
- wherein functionalities provided via the second user interface differ from functionalities provided via the first user interface.
A hearing device system comprising:
- a hearing prosthesis configured to have a coupled state in which the hearing prosthesis is worn on the body of a user of the hearing prosthesis and an uncoupled state in which the hearing prosthesis is not worn on the body of the user;
- at least one user interface component;
- a wireless communication interface;
- wherein the at least one user-interface component is configured to provide a first user interface when the hearing prosthesis is in the coupled state, and a second user interface when the hearing prosthesis is in the uncoupled state, wherein functionalities provided via the second user interface differ from functionalities provided via the first user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.