Oticon A/s

Stefan Gram

Michael Syskind Pedersen

Jan Mark De Haan

Andreas Thelander Bertelsen

Martin Bergmann

Jacob Mikkelsen

Bent Krogsgaard

Morten Pedersen

Henrik Bay

Carsten Scheel

Meng Guo

Nels Hede Rohde

Martin Kuriger

Bernhard Kuenzle

Mojtaba Farmani

Anders Meng

Mikkel Grønbech

Sudershan Yalgalwadi Sreepadarao

Susanna Løve Callaway

Nicolas Le Goff

Terri Ives

Nimrod Bogdanovski

Mikkel Bo Rasmussen

A hearing assistive device comprises a multi-microphone system for providing a processed input signal. The multi-microphone system comprises a multitude of microphones for picking up sound from an environment; and a beamformer filter configured to. The hearing assistive device further comprises an attachment element configured to fix the hearing assistive device to the body or clothes of a person. The multi-microphone system is configurable to operate in at least two modes in dependence of a mode control signal, A) a directional mode and B) an omni-directional mode wherein said multi-microphone system is configured to provide said processed input signal as a substantially directional signal, and as a substantially omni-directional signal, respectively. The attachment element is configured to provide an electric signal indicative of a current state of the attachment element. The hearing assistive device further comprises a mode controller for providing said mode control signal in dependence of said electric signal indicative of a current state of the attachment element.

Hearing assistive device comprising an attachment element

A sound capture device configured to be worn by a person and/or to be located on a surface is configured to pick up target sound from a target sound source s. The sound capture device comprises a) an input unit providing a multitude of electric input signals, each comprising a target signal component and a noise signal component; b) a directional noise reduction system comprising a beamformer unit coupled to said multitude of input signals and configured to provide an estimate of the target sound s. The beamformer unit comprises b1) target maintaining, reference beamformer providing a current reference signal; and b2) a target cancelling beamformer providing a current target cancelling sign. The directional noise reduction system is configured to operate in at least two modes in dependence of a mode control signal, 1) in a directional mode and 2) in a non-directional, omni-directional mode. The sound capture device further comprises c) antenna and transceiver circuitry for establishing an audio link to another device, and to transmit said estimate of the target sound s to said another device, and d) a mode controller for determining said mode control signal in dependence of said current reference signal and said current target cancelling signal. A method of operating a sound capture device is further disclosed.

Portable device comprising a directional system

A method of conducting a fitting session for fitting a hearing device to a hearing device user's needs is provided. The method comprises Steps Sto Sare configured to be automatically performed as background processes. Thereby a simplified scheme for fitting a hearing device to a user's needs may be provided.

Method of fitting a hearing device to a user's needs, a programming device, and a hearing system

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Stefan Gram