Gateway for a wireless hearing assistance device
AssigneeStarkey Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsStephen Paul Flood, Beau Jay Polinske, Jeffrey Paul Solum
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Abstract
Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for providing a gateway for a wireless hearing assistance device. One aspect of the present subject matter relates to a method for wirelessly communicating with a hearing assistance device. One or more message and alert inputs are received and the message and alert inputs are processed to obtain an output. The output is wirelessly transmitted to a hearing assistance device, and the output is configured to be played via audio to a wearer of the hearing assistance device and to interrupt a current audio stream being played to the wearer, in various embodiments.
Claims16
A method of using a hearing assistance device having a microphone and a processor and adapted to be worn by a wearer, the method comprising:
- receiving one or more messages and alerts;
- processing the messages and alerts using the processor to obtain an output;
- analyzing an acoustic input to the microphone using the processor to determine whether the acoustic input includes an alarm indication or other alert;
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- attenuating a wired or wireless audio stream input to the hearing assistance device configured to compensate for hearing losses of the wearer to alert the wearer about the alarm indication or other alert, wherein the processor is further configured with a learning mode to identify and analyze the alerts to determine when to attenuate the audio stream input, and wherein the output includes information conveyed to the wearer regarding the messages and alerts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.