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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2006
Applicants:
Scott Raymond Fink, Apache Junction, AZ (US);
Samuel L. Thomasson, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Scott Raymond Fink, Apache Junction, AZ (US);
Samuel L. Thomasson, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Zounds Hearing, Inc., Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Data is transferred to and from a hearing aid by transmitting an audible carrier having a frequency greater than 5 kilohertz, modulating the carrier with data, and detecting the modulated carrier in the hearing aid with a narrow band filter. The frequency is in a region where impairment occurs and there are many other sounds, thereby masking the communication, yet not interfering with it.