Patent ID: 7609842

Claim:
A hearing aid/spectacles combination comprising a spectacle frame and a first reproduction unit, wherein the spectacle frame has a first spectacle arm with a microphone array, the microphone array is equipped to pick up a sound signal and to transmit a processed signal produced on the basis thereof to the first reproduction unit, and the first reproduction unit is equipped to convert the processed signal into a processed sound signal, wherein the hearing aid/spectacles combination comprises: a sound registration module that comprises the microphone array; a beam forming module for forming a direction-dependent processed signal; a reproduction adaptation module for adapting a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit; a reproduction module that comprises the first reproduction unit; and a reproduction control module for controlling a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit, and, in that the beam forming module and the reproduction adaptation module are based on digital techniques, wherein the beam forming module and the reproduction adaptation module are arranged such that they can be either: integrated with a mobile telephone, the hearing aid/spectacles combination being equipped as a hands-free set, in which the microphone array is arranged as input for speech for the mobile telephone and the beam forming module is used to generate a beam that, essentially, comprises sound of a user's own voice; or connected to a mobile telephone, the hearing aid/spectacles combination being equipped as a hand-free set, in which the microphone array is arranged as input for speech for the mobile telephone and the beam forming module is used to generate a beam that, essentially, comprises sound of a user's own voice; or integrated with either personal audio equipment or a personal information management system.