Hearing assistance method utilizing a broadcast audio stream
AssigneeSonova AG
InventorsAmre EL-HOIYDI, Stephan GEHRING, Marc SECALL, Thomas VON DACH
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Abstract
A method of providing hearing assistance to a user of a hearing system (10, 11, 15) by utilizing an event-related audio broadcast stream (74), the method having the steps of: registering, by the user, for an event; providing, in response to said registering, a personal device (60) of the user with a stream access code required to connect to the broadcast audio stream; establishing a wireless link (72) between the hearing system and the personal device and transmitting the stream access code from the personal device to the hearing system; and connecting, by the hearing system, to the broadcast audio stream.
Claims26
A method of providing hearing assistance to a user of a hearing system (10, 11, 15) by utilizing an event-related audio broadcast stream (74), the method comprising:
- registering, by the user, for an event;
- providing, in response to said registering, a personal device (60) of the user with a stream access code required to connect to the broadcast audio stream;
- establishing a wireless link (72) between the hearing system and the personal device and transmitting the stream access code from the personal device to the hearing system;
- and
- connecting, by the hearing system, to the broadcast audio stream.
A method of providing hearing assistance to a user of a hearing system (10, 11, 15) by utilizing an audio broadcast stream (74), the method comprising:
- providing an optical code pattern (84) encoding a stream access code required to connect to the broadcast audio stream,
- scanning, by a personal device (60) of the user, the optical code pattern and decoding the optical code pattern in order to obtain the stream access code;
- establishing a wireless link (72) between the hearing system and the personal device and transmitting the stream access code from the personal device to the hearing system;
- and
- connecting, by the hearing system, to the broadcast audio stream.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.