Patent ID: 7773763

Claim:
A binaural hearing aid system comprising a first hearing aid and a second hearing aid, each of which comprising a microphone and an A/D converter for provision of a digital input signal in response to sound signals received at the respective microphone in a sound environment surrounding a user of the binaural hearing aid system, a processor that is configured to process the digital input signal in accordance with a predetermined signal processing algorithm to generate a processed output signal, a D/A converter and an output transducer for conversion of the respective processed output signal to an acoustic output signal, and a binaural sound environment detector for binaural determination of the sound environment, the binaural sound environment detector comprising a feature extractor for determination of characteristic parameters of the received sound signals, an environment classifier for categorizing the sound environment based at least in part on the determined characteristic parameters, and a parameter map for provision of an output for a selection of the signal processing algorithm, wherein each of the parameter maps of the first and second hearing aid is configured to receive a first output from the environment classifier of the first hearing aid and a second output from the environment classifier of the second hearing aid, and generate the output for the selection of the signal processing algorithm.