US 11,863,937 B2
Binaural hearing system for providing sensor data indicative of a physiological property, and method of its operation
Konstantin Silberzahn, Meilen (CH); Anne Thielen, Stäfa (CH); Patrizia Richner, Männedorf (CH); Markus Leuthold, Stäfa (CH); Katja Dietrich, Rapperswil (CH); Adem Bici, Stäfa (CH); Matthias Riepenhoff, Hombrechtikon (CH); Evgeny Murtola, Dübendorf (CH); and Emily Urry, Zollikon (CH)
Assigned to Sonova AG, Staefa (CH)
Filed by SONOVA AG, Staefa (CH)
Filed on Mar. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/688,552.
Claims priority of application No. 21166105 (EP), filed on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0329952 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H04R 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 25/505 (2013.01) [H04R 25/552 (2013.01); H04R 25/603 (2019.05); H04R 2225/025 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hearing system comprising:
a first hearing device configured to be worn at a first ear of a user, the first hearing device comprising a first physiological sensor configured to provide sensor data indicative of a physiological property of the user;
a second hearing device configured to be worn at a second ear of the user, the second hearing device comprising a second physiological sensor configured to provide sensor data indicative of the same physiological property as the sensor data provided by the first physiological sensor; and
a processing unit configured to control, in a binaural asynchronous operational mode, the first and second physiological sensors to alternatingly provide the sensor data to the processing unit in at least two subsequent time intervals, wherein, when one of the first and second physiological sensor is controlled to provide the sensor data to the processing unit in the at least two subsequent time intervals, the other of the first and second physiological sensor is controlled to abstain from providing the sensor data to the processing unit.