Patent ID: 7738666

Claim:
A method for adjusting a system for providing hearing assistance to a user, said system comprising a microphone arrangement for capturing audio signals, a transmission unit for transmitting said audio signals via a wireless link to a receiver unit worn by said user, a gain control unit located in said receiver unit for setting a gain applied to said audio signals, and means worn at or in a user's ear for stimulating a hearing of said user according to said audio signals from said gain control unit, said method comprising: (a) generating test audio signals, transmitting said test audio signals at a pre-defined level from said transmission unit via said wireless link to said receiver unit and stimulating said user's hearing with said test audio signals via said stimulating means; (b) simultaneously transmitting gain control commands from said transmission unit to said gain control unit in order to selectively change said gain set by said gain control unit; (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) until an optimum value of said gain set by said gain control unit has been determined; and (d) transmitting a store command from said transmission unit to said receiver unit in order to store that determined optimum value of said gain.