Patent ID: 8045737

Claim:
A method for setting at least one fitting parameter of a digital hearing instrument, the method comprising the steps of: providing the hearing instrument placed in or at a user's ear, the hearing instrument comprising at least one outer microphone operable to obtain an input signal from an acoustic signal incident on the user's ear, and at least one receiver operable to produce an output acoustic signal for impinging on the user's eardrum, obtaining a transfer function representative of an acoustic transfer from the receiver to the outer microphone, performing a computation of a real ear acoustic coupling quantity or anatomical transfer quantity, wherein in said computation the transfer function is used as an input quantity, and using said real ear acoustic coupling quantity or anatomical transfer quantity to determine the fitting parameter or fitting parameters, wherein the fitting parameter or fitting parameters is/are an adjustment of a gain characteristic of the hearing instrument, wherein for each of a plurality of frequency bands a fitting parameter is set, said fitting parameter being a frequency band gain correction value for correcting a gain which, by a signal processing unit, is applied on an input signal of the signal processing unit.