Method and apparatus for battery balancing of hearing aid in electronic device
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJung-Keun Park, Heon-Chol Kim, Seong-Hun Jeong
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Abstract
A method for maintaining battery balancing of a hearing aid in an electronic device is provided. The method includes establishing a connection with a first hearing aid, determining whether the connection with the first hearing aid is maintained for more than a specific period, and if the connection with the first hearing aid is maintained for more than the specific period, establishing a connection with a second hearing aid.
Claims12
A method in an electronic device for battery balancing of two hearing aids, the electronic device being other than the two hearing aids, the method comprising:
- discovering, by the electronic device, the two hearing aids;
- selecting, by the electronic device, a first hearing aid of the two hearing aids as a master device;
- establishing, by the electronic device, a first wireless connection with the first hearing aid;
- selecting, by the electronic device, alternatively and periodically a second hearing aid of the two hearing aids as the master device, if a duration time of the first wireless connection with the first hearing aid reaches a time period;
- and
- establishing, by the electronic device, a second wireless connection with the second hearing aid, if the second hearing aid is selected,
- wherein a non-selected hearing aid of the two hearing aids is not connected with the electronic device and enters a slave mode in response to the selected hearing aid being selected as the master device.
An electronic device for battery balancing of two hearing aids, the electronic device being other than the two hearing aids and comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a battery balancing module configured to:
- discover the two hearing aids via the communication interface,
- select a first hearing aid of the two hearing aids as a master device,
- establish a first wireless connection with the first hearing aid,
- select alternatively and periodically a second hearing aid of the two hearing aids as the master device, if a duration time of the first wireless connection with the first hearing aid reaches a time period, and
- establish a second wireless connection with the second hearing aid, if the second hearing aid is selected,
- wherein a non-selected hearing aid of the two hearing aids is not connected with the electronic device and enters a slave mode in response to the selected hearing aid being selected as the master device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.