Patent ID: 8111848
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G10L,H04R

Abstract:
1. A hearing device comprising: an acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement with an output; an electrical/mechanical output converter arrangement with an input; a direction of arrival determining unit with an input operationally connected to said output of said acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement and generating at an output a signal or data indicative of direction of arrival of acoustical signals impinging on said acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement from an acoustical source, wherein the direction of arrival determining unit generates the signal or data indicative of direction of arrival from the acoustical signals picked up from the acoustical source at only one ear of an individual by a plurality of input acoustical/electrical converters at said one ear; a controlled signal transfer unit the input thereof being operationally connected to the output of said acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement, the output thereof being operationally connected to the input of said electrical/mechanical output converter arrangement and providing for controlled signal transfer between said input and said output and having a control input being operationally connected to the output of said direction of arrival determining unit, wherein said hearing device being a binaural hearing device and said acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement comprising a left ear and a right ear acoustical/electrical input converter subarrangement, said electrical/mechanical output converter arrangement comprising a left ear and a right ear electrical/mechanical output converter subarrangement, said controlled signal transfer unit controlling signal transfer from said right ear acoustical/electrical input converter subarrangement to both said left ear and said right ear electrical/mechanical output converter subarrangements and from said left ear acoustical/electrical input converter subarrangement to both said left ear and said right ear electrical/mechanical output converter subarrangements.