Patent ID: 11962348
Assignee: NATUS MEDICAL INCORPORATED
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  A | IPC A  H

Claim 9:
10. The audiometer system of claim 1 wherein:
the transducer light-based transceiver is a first transducer light-based transceiver and the transducer is a first transducer;
the audiometer DSP unit is further configured to:
generate masking signals responsive to a user input masking signal; and
convert the masking signals to a plurality of masking data packets;

the audiometer baseband processing unit is further configured to:
receive the masking data packets from the audiometer DSP unit; and
generate a plurality of masking audiometer frames, each frame comprising a packet of the masking data packets; and

the audiometer light-based transceiver is further configured to transmit the masking audiometer frames received from the audiometer baseband processing unit;
the audiometer system further comprising:
a second transducer comprising:
a second transducer light-based transceiver positionable within a field of view of the audiometer light-based transceiver, the second transducer light-based transceiver configured to receive the plurality of masking audiometer frames from the audiometer light-based transceiver;
a second transducer baseband processing unit positioned in communication with the second transducer light-based transceiver and configured to:
receive the plurality of masking audiometer frames from the transducer light-based transceiver; and
extract the masking data packets from the audiometer frames, defining extracted masking data packets; and

a second transducer processor unit positioned in communication with the second transducer baseband processing unit and configured to:
receive the extracted masking data packets and
convert the extracted masking data packets into a masking signal; and

a second audio speaker positioned in communication with the second transducer processor unit and configured to:
receive the masking signal from the transducer processor unit; and
generate a masking sound responsive to the masking signal;

wherein the masking sound generated by the audio speaker of the second transducer is generated simultaneously with the sound generated by the audio speaker of the first transducer;
wherein the audio speaker of the first transducer is positioned in audio communication with a first ear of a patient; and
wherein the audio speaker of the second transducer is positioned in audio communication with a second ear of the patient.