Patent ID: 11882406
Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A method for communication between a first hearing instrument and a second hearing instrument, the method comprising:
designating the first hearing instrument as a master and the second hearing instrument as a slave;
collecting audio samples from a first microphone of the first hearing instrument;
transmitting a first channel of the audio samples in packets from the first hearing instrument to the second hearing instrument, the packets being transmitted as the audio samples are collected so that a latency in the communication is within one order of magnitude of a sample period of the audio samples;
receiving the first channel of audio samples at the second hearing instrument;
collecting audio samples from a second microphone of the second hearing instrument for a second channel; and
combining the first channel and the second channel for a binaural application.