Jan Janssen;Koen Van den Heuvel;Werner Meskens;Erika Van Baelen
发明人:
Jan Janssen,Erika Van Baelen,Koen Van den Heuvel,Werner Meskens
申请号：
US13751768
公开号：
US20140214123A1
申请日:
2013.01.28
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要：
A hearing prosthesis system has a hearing prosthesis device for each ear. In the case of a cochlear implant, the prosthesis may have both an external portion and an internal portion. The external portion provides a wireless communication to the internal portion. Additionally, each prosthesis is configured to communicate with the other prosthesis. Thus, a second wireless signal provides a bilateral communication link between the two prostheses. Advantageously, in order to mitigate potential wireless interference due to each prosthesis communicating with both a corresponding internal component and the other external component, the disclosed systems and methods operate in a specific communication mode. Under this mode, for each time period, one external component is in a transmit mode, while the other external component is in a receive mode. As the time period advances, the external components simultaneously switch modes.
