Sonova Ag

Shawn Lee

Henry Luo

Ara Talaslian

Deming Zhang

Greg Nawrocki

A hearing device for being worn at or at least partly within an ear of a user and including an acoustic shock detector for detecting an acoustic shock event present in an input audio signal from an input transducer and providing shock detection information related to the acoustic shock event. The hearing device further includes an acoustic shock controller for determining a first gain factor (G) and a second gain factor (G) in dependence of the shock detection information, a first attenuator for attenuating a processed input audio signal by the first gain factor (G) and providing an attenuated audio signal to an output limiter providing a limited audio signal, and a second attenuator for attenuating the limited audio signal by the second gain factor (G) and providing a further attenuated audio signal to an output transducer. A corresponding method for acoustic shock control in a hearing device.

Hearing device with acoustic shock control and method for acoustic shock control in a hearing device

A method for operating a binaural hearing system including first and second hearing devices, each including an input transducer, a signal processing unit, an output transducer and a link unit for exchanging information between the devices. Operating the first hearing device according to a first processing scheme, operating the second hearing device according to a second processing scheme, monitoring an acoustic situation by the hearing devices, generating a request for coordinating the two hearing devices if one hearing device detects an acoustic situation asking for coordinating the two processing schemes of the hearing devices, the hearing device detecting such an acoustic situation being an ipsi-lateral hearing device the other being a contra-lateral hearing device, activating a link between the devices for transmitting the request to the contra-lateral hearing device, and changing the processing scheme in at least one of the devices in accordance with the request.

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Kitchener, Canada

Shawn Lee