Patent ID: 8121321

Claim:
A pair of hearing aids to be worn on a left ear and a right ear, respectively, of a hearing aids wearer, the pair of hearing aids comprising: a first hearing aid including: a first microphone that generates a first input signal; a transmission determination component that decides whether or not the first input signal satisfies a specific condition; and a transmission component that transmits the first input signal when the transmission determination component has decided that the first input signal satisfies the specific condition; and a second hearing aid including: a reception component that receives the first input signal sent from the transmission component; a hearing aid signal processor that generates an output signal on the basis of the first input signal received by the reception component; and a receiver that reproduces an output sound on the basis of the output signal received from the hearing aid signal processor; wherein the first hearing aid is to be worn on the hearing impaired ear with a lower hearing level out of the right and left ears of the hearing aids wearer, and the second hearing aid is to be worn on the ear with a higher hearing level out of the right and left ears of the hearing aids wearer, wherein the transmission component sends the first input signal to the reception component of the second hearing aid worn on the ear with the higher hearing level when it has been decided by the transmission determination component that the first input signal includes a speech interval.