Patent ID: 9516430
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G10L,H04R

Claim Text:
1. A binaural hearing assistance system comprising left and right hearing assistance devices adapted for being located at or in left and right ears of a user, or adapted for being fully or partially implanted in the head of the user, the binaural hearing assistance system further comprising a user interface configured to communicate with said left and right hearing assistance devices and to allow a user to influence functionality of the left and right hearing assistance devices, each of the left and right hearing assistance devices comprising a) a plurality of input units IU b) a multi-input unit noise reduction system comprising a multi-channel beamformer filtering unit operationally coupled to said multitude of input units IU the binaural hearing assistance system being configured to allow a user to indicate a direction to or a location of the target signal source relative to the user via said user interface, wherein the left and right hearing assistance devices each further comprise a voice activity detector for identifying respective time segments of an input signal where a human voice is present, and the hearing assistance system is configured to