Patent ID: 7115102

Claim:
A stethoscope system, comprising: a local stethoscope unit including a chest piece assembly to generate a first analog auscultation signal and a local transmitting section to receive the first analog auscultation signal; the local transmitting section including a first low frequency boost circuit coupled to the chest piece assembly and capable of amplifying a portion of the first analog auscultation signal having frequencies lower than a predetermined frequency level to generate a boosted segment signal, a local encoder coupled to the chest piece assembly and to the first low frequency boost circuit and responsive to the first analog auscultation signal and the boosted segment signal to generate a compressed digital auscultation signal; a data communications channel coupled to the local encoder to receive the digital auscultation signal; and a remote stethoscope unit including a remote receiving section and a remote headset, the remote receiving section being coupled to the data communications channel and responsive to the digital auscultation signal to generate a second analog auscultation signal for the remote headset.