Patent ID: 7181033

Claim:
A method for operating a hearing aid, comprising: picking up an input signal with an input transducer of the hearing aid; converting the input signal into an electrical signal; processing and amplifying the electrical signal; outputting the processed and amplified electrical signal with an output transducer; and initiating a switch-over process to slidably transition the hearing aid from a first operating condition into a second operating condition; wherein the switch-over process comprises: splitting a signal path within the hearing aid device between a signal input at which an input signal is present and a signal output at which an output signal is present into a first signal path and a parallel second signal path; traversing both signal paths by the input signal only during the switch-over process, wherein the first operating condition implemented by an algorithm of a digital signal processor (DSP) having at least one variable parameter exists in the first signal path and the second operating condition implemented by an algorithm of a DSP or by the algorithm of the DSP exists in the second signal path in the hearing device; linking a first signal that results from the first operating condition and a second signal that results from the second operating condition with one another via a weighting function; and reducing the weighting of the first signal and increasing the weighting of the second signal.