Patent ID: 8355516
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A hearing apparatus, comprising: a microphone device for picking-up a sound signal; a reception device for picking-up an electrical or electromagnetic signal; a classification device for determining an acoustic situation from the signals of said microphone device and said reception device, the signals of said microphone device and said reception device being individually made available to said classification device for recognizing the situation; a signal processing device for processing the signals of said microphone device and said reception device as a function of an output signal of said classification device; and a preprocessing device connected upstream of said classification device, said preprocessing device configured for determining which of the picked-up signals is dominant based on level, and said preprocessing device configured for providing a corresponding control signal of said classification device; wherein said classification device is configured in at least one manner selected from the group consisting of: