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Method and apparatus for setting a hearing device

US8180079B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Medical Instruments Pte. Ltd. · SG

Inventors

Jorg Bindner · Weisendorf, DE
Ingo Eichinger · Erlangen, DE
Claus Reinlein · Burgthann, DE
Robert Ryman · Warwick, GB
Michael E. Sainsbury · Chatswood, AU

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 18, 2008
Grant date	May 15, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 9, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04R25/70
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for setting a characteristic of a source hearing device on target hearing device are provided. A transformation database is created. A source hearing device including the setting of the source hearing device are identified, the characteristic of setting is to be set on the target hearing device. The setting which, according to the transformation database on the target hearing device, results in the characteristic corresponding to the characteristic of the identified source hearing device is recalled. The target hearing device is set using the recalled setting. Settings are stored in the transformation database during their creation, which have to be set to hearing devices of different types to be set in order to grant these hearing devices the characteristic of other identified hearing with identified settings.

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