Patent ID: 9584914
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04R

Claim:
1. A method for operating a hearing system having binaural hearing devices including a left-hand hearing device and a right-hand hearing device, which comprises the steps of: providing a left-hand internal input signal in the left-hand hearing device; providing a right-hand internal input signal in the right-hand hearing device; activating a sending mode of at least one of the hearing devices, the sending mode being activated in one of the hearing devices automatically in dependence on at least one of the left or right internal input signal, wherein, it is calculated with what probability a speech sound, referred to a specified frontal direction, is coming from a side or from a front or behind, with the sending mode being activated if the probability of the speech sound coming from a side is greater than a probability of the speech sound coming from the front or behind; deactivating the sending mode, the sending mode being deactivated in one of the hearing devices in dependence on at least one of the left or right internal input signal and of a communication signal received from the respective other hearing device; and wherein a decision reached by one of the hearing devices on a monaural basis regarding activating the sending mode is made known to the respective other one of the hearing devices operating on a monaural basis so that the other hearing device will activate the sending mode in dependence on the decision received, wherein the decision received for activating the sending mode of the other hearing device has a higher priority than the internal input signal of the respective hearing device.