User Interfaces of a Hearing Device
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsJan Patrick Frieding, Ivana Popovac
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are 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.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining, by at least one processor, whether a state of an external unit of a hearing device is one of (i) a coupled state when the external unit and a stimulation unit of the hearing device are coupled or (ii) a decoupled state when the external unit and the stimulation unit are decoupled;
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- providing, by the external unit via at least one user interface component, 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, wherein visual indications provided via the second user interface differ from visual indications provided by the first interface.
An external unit of a hearing device comprising:
- at least one visual-output component;
- and
- at least one processor configured to:
- determine whether the external unit is coupled to or decoupled from a stimulation unit of the hearing device,
- when the external component is coupled to the stimulation unit, provide at least a first visual display via the at least one visual-output component, and
- when the external component is decoupled from the stimulation unit, provide at least a second visual display via the at least one visual-output component
- wherein the at least second visual display is different from the at least first visual display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.