Patent ID: 8600087

Claim:
A hearing apparatus, comprising: a first reduction unit for reducing stationary interference noises of an input signal; a second reduction unit for reducing non-stationary interference noises oriented spatially in respect of the hearing apparatus; and a selection facility for selecting at least one of said first or second reduction units for an output signal to be formed from the input signal, said selection facility making a selection in dependence on a criterion for a stationarity of the input signal, said selection facility, as a criterion for the stationarity, selects one of a value of an attenuation factor of said first reduction unit or an estimated value for a signal-to-noise ratio of said first reduction unit, wherein the attenuation factor of said first reduction unit is restricted to small values by means of an anchor gain value and in which an attenuation can be generated by means of said second reduction unit, the attenuation corresponding to a value for the attenuation factor smaller than the anchor gain value.