Patent ID: 8189831

Claim:
A hearing aid, comprising: a sound receiver that receives sound waves and generates a microphone signal representing the sound waves; a transmission unit that receives the microphone signal and generates a power signal representing the microphone signal; a sound generator that receives the power signal and generates a sound based on the power signal; and an audio signal unit that is operatively connected to the sound generator and generates an audio signal comprising a plurality of audio signal sections immediately succeeding one another in time, wherein a succeeding audio signal section is overlapped with a previous audio signal section by an overlapping time period that is shorter than an audio signal section duration of the previous audio signal section, wherein the audio signal unit comprises a plurality of tone signal generators that alternatively generate the immediately succeeding audio signal sections of the audio signal, and wherein the hearing aid further comprises a summation element operatively connected to the plurality of tone signal generators that sums the immediately succeeding audio signal sections in time and outputs the summed audio signal to the transmission unit.