1. A seed of soybean cultivar 5549483, wherein a representative sample of seed of said cultivar was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-8030.
2. A soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing the seed of claim 1.
3. A tissue culture of cells produced from the plant of claim 2, wherein said cells of the tissue culture are produced from a plant part selected from the group consisting of leaves, pollen, embryos, cotyledons, hypocotyl, meristematic cells, roots, root tips, pistils, anthers, flowers, stems and pods.
4. A protoplast produced from the plant of claim 2.
5. A protoplast produced from the tissue culture of claim 3.
6. A soybean plant regenerated from the tissue culture of claim 3, wherein the plant has all of the morphological and physiological characteristics of cultivar 5549483.
7. A method for producing an F1 hybrid soybean seed, wherein the method comprises crossing the plant of claim 2 with a different soybean plant and harvesting the resultant F1 hybrid soybean seed.
8. A hybrid soybean seed produced by the method of claim 7.
9. A hybrid soybean plant, or a part thereof, produced by growing said hybrid seed of claim 8.
10. A method of producing an herbicide resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene wherein the transgene confers resistance to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, L-phosphinothricin, triazine and benzonitrile.
11. An herbicide resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 10.
12. A method of producing an insect resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene that confers insect resistance.
13. An insect resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 12.
14. The soybean plant of claim 13, wherein the transgene encodes a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.
15. A method of producing a disease resistant soybean plant wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene that confers disease resistance.
16. A disease resistant soybean plant produced by the method of claim 15.
17. A method of producing a soybean plant with modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or decreased phytate content, wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, \u03b1-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or transforming a plant with an antisense gene of stearyl-ACP desaturase.
18. A soybean plant having modified fatty acid metabolism or modified carbohydrate metabolism produced by the method of claim 17.
19. A method of introducing a desired trait into soybean cultivar 5549483 wherein the method comprises:
a. crossing a 5549483 plant, wherein a representative sample of seed was deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-8030, with a plant of another soybean cultivar that comprises a desired trait to produce progeny plants wherein the desired trait is selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or decreased phytate content, and resistance to bacterial disease, fungal disease or viral disease;
b. Selecting one or more progeny plants that have the desired trait to produce selected progeny plants;
c. crossing the selected progeny plants with the 5549483 plants to produce backcross progeny plants;
d. Selecting for backcross progeny plants that have the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 5549483 listed in Table 1; and
e. repeating steps (c) and (d) three or more times in succession to produce selected fourth or higher backcross progeny plants that comprise the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 5549483 listed in Table 1.
20. A soybean plant produced by the method of claim 19, wherein the plant has the desired trait and all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of soybean cultivar 5549483 listed in Table 1.
21. The soybean plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is herbicide resistance and the resistance is conferred to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of imidazolinone, sulfonylurea, glyphosate, glufosinate, L-phosphinothricin, triazine and benzonitrile.
22. The soybean plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is insect resistance and the insect resistance is conferred by a transgene encoding a Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin.
23. The soybean plant of claim 20, wherein the desired trait is modified fatty acid metabolism, modified carbohydrate metabolism, or decreased phytate content, wherein the method comprises transforming the soybean plant of claim 2 with a transgene encoding a protein selected from the group consisting of phytase, fructosyltransferase, levansucrase, \u03b1-amylase, invertase and starch branching enzyme or transforming a plant with an antisense gene of stearyl-ACP desaturase.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for operating a system of a hearing aid device and a communication device, the hearing aid device having an acousto-electrical transducer, a signal processing device and an electro-acoustic transducer, the communication device having a controller and an electro-acoustic transducer, which comprises the steps of:
receiving an incoming call via the communication device;
signaling reception of the incoming call by the communication device outputting a first acoustic signal via the electro-acoustic transducer;
receiving the first acoustic signal by the acousto-electrical transducer of the hearing aid device;
identifying the first acoustic signal in the hearing aid device; and
carrying out of a first change of adjustment on the hearing aid device when the first acoustic signal has been identified.
2. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises transmitting, via the communication device, the first acoustic signal when the incoming call is accepted on the communication device.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first acoustic signal is part of a ringing sound.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein:
the hearing aid device also has means for detecting a distance of the communication device relative to the hearing aid device; and
the first change of adjustment specifies a change in state of the hearing aid device into a first operating state and the hearing aid device, in the first operating state, monitors an environment of the hearing aid device for an approach of the communication device with the aid of the means for detecting a distance.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the hearing aid device performs a second change of adjustment on detecting an approach of the communication device.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the hearing aid device cancels the second change of adjustment or performs a third change of adjustment when the means for detecting a distance detects a removal of the communication device from the environment of the hearing aid device.
7. The method according to claim 4, which further comprises estimating, via the hearing aid device, a transfer function of a feedback path and the hearing aid device utilizes a change in the transfer function as the means for detecting a distance.
8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the means for detecting a distance is a facility for detecting a distance signal of the communication device.
9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the hearing aid device cancels the first change of adjustment or performs a fourth change of adjustment when a second acoustic signal is received from the communication device so that the hearing aid device leaves the first operating state.
10. A hearing aid device, comprising:
an acousto-electrical transducer;
a signal processor;
an electro-acoustic transducer; and
means for detecting a distance of a communication device relative to the hearing aid device;
the hearing aid device configured:
to receive a first acoustic signal through said acousto-electrical transducer; and
to identify the first acoustic signal and to carry out a first change of adjustment when the first acoustic signal has been identified, the first change of adjustment specifies a change in state of the hearing aid device into a first operating state and the hearing aid device is configured, in the first operating state, to monitor an environment of the hearing aid device for an approach of the communication device with an aid of said means for detecting a distance.
11. The hearing aid device according to claim 10, wherein the hearing aid device is configured to perform a second change of adjustment on detection of the approach of the communication device.
12. The hearing aid device according to claim 11, wherein the hearing aid device is configured to cancel the second change of adjustment or to perform a third change of adjustment when said means for detecting a distance detects a removal of the communication device from the environment of the hearing aid device.
13. The hearing aid device according to claim 10, further comprising an estimating device for estimating a transfer function of a feedback path and the hearing aid device is configured to utilize a change of an estimated transfer function as said means for detecting a distance.
14. The hearing aid device according to claim 10, wherein said means for detecting a distance includes a facility for detecting a distance signal of the communication device.
15. The hearing aid device according to claim 12, wherein the hearing aid device is configured to cancel the first change of adjustment or to perform a fourth change of adjustment when a second acoustic signal is received so that the hearing aid device leaves the first operating state.