Patent ID: 7747031
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A hearing device comprising: a microphone device that detects an incoming audio signal containing wind noise, said microphone device producing an electrical microphone signal having a wind noise component; a speaker that emits an acoustic output corresponding to said microphone signal; an analysis device supplied with said microphone signal that automatically analyzes said microphone signal to detect a characteristic of said wind noise component selected from the group consisting of a presence of said wind noise component and a strength of said wind noise component; and a noise generator connected between said analysis device and said speaker device that generates an electrical noise signal, dependent on the characteristic of said noise component detected by said analysis device, and said noise generator supplying said electrical noise signal to said speaker device and said speaker device emitting an additional acoustical noise output, together with said acoustical output, said additional acoustical noise output at least partly masking a content of said acoustic output corresponding said wind noise component.