Patent ID: 8355516

Claim:
A hearing apparatus, comprising: a microphone device for picking-up a sound signal; a reception device for picking-up an electrical or electromagnetic signal; a classification device for determining an acoustic situation from the signals of said microphone device and said reception device, the signals of said microphone device and said reception device being individually made available to said classification device for recognizing the situation; a signal processing device for processing the signals of said microphone device and said reception device as a function of an output signal of said classification device; and a preprocessing device connected upstream of said classification device, said preprocessing device configured for determining which of the picked-up signals is dominant based on level, and said preprocessing device configured for providing a corresponding control signal of said classification device; wherein said classification device is configured in at least one manner selected from the group consisting of: said classification device is configured to use the signal of said microphone device at predetermined temporal intervals for determining the acoustic situation if the signal of said reception device is dominant, and said classification device uses the signal of said microphone device in order to determine the acoustic situation, if neither of the two picked-up signals is dominant.