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Demant A/S — Investor Presentation (April 2007)
29 slides from Demant A/S's investor presentation, April 2007
Slide 1: Unfolding Epoq
Unfolding Epoq Jes Olsen, Director of Business and Product Development
Slide 2: Content
Content • Epoq audiology • Epoq design and styles • Epoq Streamer • The Epoq user experience • Epoq launch activities
Slide 3: Epoq is New "everything"
Epoq is New ”everything”… Completely new chip architecture … Broadband Digital Wireless … digital audio streaming, binaural processing … Outstanding sound quality via new processing principles, transducers and 10 KHz bandwidth … new designs & concepts in all product Completely styles ... a big step
Slide 4: Epoq audiology
Epoq audiology
Slide 5: Epoq audiological key features
Epoq audiological key features Spatial Sound My Voice Binaural DFC Extreme Bandwidth
Slide 6: Spatial Sound
Spatial Sound Uniqueness - Binaural processing lets two Epoqs work as one central processing unit - Actively coordinates compression systems across ears, preserving ILD’s (Intra-aural Level Differences) Benefits - Easier to distinguish where sounds come from. - Easier to identify who is talking - Be
Slide 7: My Voice
My Voice Uniqueness - First hearing instrument ever to actively detect client’s own voice ... and act upon it - Lets noise reduction provide the benefit it actually should both during listening and during conversations in noisy situations Benefits - Background noise stays more stable and unaffected
Slide 8: Binaural DFC (feedback cancellation)
Binaural DFC (feedback cancellation) Conventional Uniqueness - First DFC system ever to benefit from binaural processing Benefits -More robust feedback detection - Better sound quality – also while listening to music and other situations with tonal input Epoq - Avoids the “false positive” detection
Slide 9: Extreme Bandwidth
Extreme Bandwidth Uniqueness - True 10 kHz bandwidth Benefits - Improved sound quality - Better localisation - Greater naturalness and fidelity
Slide 10: Plus – a lot more
Plus – a lot more Binaural multi-band adaptive directionality Epoq Memory (datalogging) Life Learning Binaural 15-channel TriState noise management Front Focus Autophone True Dynamics compression system Binaural PB & VC operation Binaural phone operation
Slide 11: Epoq design and styles
Epoq design and styles
Slide 12: Epoq BTE design
Epoq BTE design • Small, fully functional instrument – it has all features plus fully integrated wireless features • The smallest and in terms of cosmetics most fully featured BTE ever • Very slim and sleek … ergonomic design • Receiver-In-The-Ear (RITE technology) and normal BTE style
Slide 13: Comparing sizes
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Slide 14: Epoq BTE design
Epoq BTE design • 11 elegant colour combinations • Three lines
Slide 15: Epoq styles
Epoq styles • New BTE/RITE design: Ear mould options – New Small BTE 6, 8, 10 mm – as Delta – New Small RITE As Delta As Delta New modular custom design: • ITE • ITC • CIC / MIC (not WL)
Slide 16: Connecting to the World! The Epoq Streamer
Connecting to the World! The Epoq Streamer
Slide 17: MarkeTrak VII
MarkeTrak VII Oticon « Epoq Kochkin, 2005 One-on-one 6 90) Small groups 10 85 TV. 10 81 Outdoors 9 78 Listening to music 9 77 Leisure activities 9 76 Car 13 75 Place of worship 11 74 Restaurant 15 74 ConcectiMevie= 71 Telephone 20 69 Workplace 66 Large group 23 63 School/classroo anes 21 59 100 80 6
Slide 18: Current approaches
Current approaches • Telecoil – Digital interference • Acoustic phone – Feedback • FM signal – Space and power needs – Price – Not commonly used in other devices
Slide 19: Introducing EPOQ Streamer
Introducing EPOQ Streamer Finally An interface to the far world of sound
Slide 20: Streamer benefits
Streamer benefits Mobile phone or Bluetooth-enabled home phone: Hassle-free, wireless, hands-free, hear conversation with both ears Stream high quality (A2DP) music: Directly and wirelessly into both hearing aids Fully integrated and very user-friendly: It only takes one press on a button to receive
Slide 21: Streamer function
Streamer function EarStream Mic Key lock Phone answer/hang up Phone rings… Volume Music start/stop Bluetooth operation Battery indicator Line input (mini jack) Power in Hands free conversation! Bluetooth
Slide 22: The Epoq user experience
The Epoq user experience
Slide 23: Test summary
Test summary • From early 2005 – Laboratory testing on specific features • From February 2006 – Field testing on different styles adding more and more features • Until now – More than 253 test subject weeks
Slide 24: Asger
Asger 63 years old Consultant in his son’s company Children and grandchildren Very active outdoors Enjoys an active social life
Slide 25: Henriette
Henriette 28 years old Librarian Engaged to be married Sings in a choir Plays several instruments Enjoys an active social life
Slide 26: Epoq launch activities
Epoq launch activities
Slide 27: The introduction plans
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Slide 28: The introduction plans
The introduction plans • Main attraction at our booth at the AAA convention • First training seminars this week (week 15) • First shipments during May • All major countries will have launched before the summer vacation
Slide 29: Entering the next paradigm: Wireless connectivity
1987 1996 2007 Pro- Analogue Digital Wireless grammable • Entering the next paradigm: Wireless connectivity • Epoq is the first product in the new paradigm with fully integrated broadband wireless technology: – First product with true binaural processing – First product providing connectivity to the