Patent ID: 8081787

Claim:
A system for providing hearing assistance to a user, comprising: a wireless remote control for transmitting control commands as an amplitude modulated radio frequency signal, a radio frequency power detector for outputting a signal representative of the power envelope of the radio frequency signal received by an antenna of the radio frequency power detector, a classifier unit for analyzing the output signal of the radio frequency power detector in order to detect control commands of the remote control and to detect the presence of a source of interfering radio frequency signals, an audio signal processing unit, and means worn to be worn at or at least in part in the user's ear for stimulating the user's hearing according to audio signals processed in the audio signal processing unit, wherein the classifier unit is for providing a control signal representative of the detected remote control commands and an interference signal representative of the presence of a source of interfering radio frequency signals, and wherein operation of the audio signal processing unit is controlled by said control signal.