Patent ID: 8706248

Claim:
A prosthetic hearing implant comprising: first and second sound processing units, wherein said first sound processing unit is configured to communicate with said second sound processing unit, and is further configured to transmit signals to at least one internal component of said prosthetic hearing implant; a plurality of spatially-arranged audio sensors, including first and second audio sensors, configured to receive ambient sound, and comprising at least one sensor located in said first sound processing unit and at least one sensor located in said second sound processing unit; and at least one directional sound processor having an array-processing stage configured to generate a directional sound signal from sound received by the first one of said plurality of sensors, and wherein said directional sound processor is configured to combine said directional sound signal and a signal representative of sound received by the second one of said plurality of sensors to generate a processed sound signal from which sound received from non-desired directions is attenuated.