Patent ID: 8641595

Claim:
An implantable hearing system, comprising: an implantable microphone operative to generate microphone output responses; an amplifier operative to receive said microphone output responses and generate amplifier output responses, wherein said amplifier output responses are dependent upon a characteristic of said microphone output responses; a signal processor operative to receive said amplifier output responses and further operative to process said amplifier output responses and generate signal processor output responses; and an implantable auditory stimulation device operative to stimulate an auditory component of a patient in accordance with said signal processor output responses; wherein: the characteristic of said microphone output responses is a frequency characteristic; the amplifier is operative to amplify microphone output responses in a first frequency band by a first factor, and to amplify microphone output responses in a second frequency band by a second factor which is greater than said first factor; and wherein the upper and lower limits of said first frequency band have been selected such that said first frequency band corresponds to the general frequencies of the voice of a recipient of the implantable hearing system.