Patent ID: 7397925

Claim:
A hearing device system with at least one hearing device, having an acoustical/electrical input converter arrangement, an electrical/mechanical output converter arrangement, a digital signal processing unit operationally interconnected between an output of said input converter arrangement and an input of said output converter arrangement, said device being adapted to a specific ear of a specific individual, said signal processing unit being controllable in at least two operating modes, a first mode being realized so that the device in said ear of said individual is substantially transparent, said processing unit being controlled in said first mode by a dedicated program module independent of a second program module for a second of said at least two operating modes or being controlled by a program operating in said first mode, controlled by a dedicated set of parameters independent from a second set of parameters controlling said program in a second of said at least two operating modes and wherein said first mode is kept activated when said second of said at least two operating modes is activated as well.