Patent ID: 8483416
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing an audible signal to be perceived by an individual in dependency from an acoustical signal source, said individual wearing a right-ear and a left-ear hearing device respectively with a right-ear and with a left-ear input converter arrangement and with a right-ear and with a left-ear output converter arrangement, comprising: establishing a dependency of an input signal to the right-ear output converter arrangement from an output signal of the right-ear input converter arrangement and a dependency of the input signal of the left-ear output converter arrangement from the output signal of the left-ear input converter arrangement and disabling binaural beam-forming and operating the right-ear and left-ear hearing devices independently with respective monaural beam-forming if an acoustical source to be perceived is located in front of individual's head in a first range of direction of arrival, or DOA, which is between at most 45° and at least 315°; and establishing a predominant dependency of the input signal to the contra-lateral output converter arrangement from the output signal of the ipsi-lateral input converter arrangement if said acoustical source to be perceived is located laterally of individual's head in a second range of direction of arrival, or DOA, which is relative to individual's horizontal straight-ahead direction.