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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 04, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Werner Hohn, Uttenreuth, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 2/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 2/500 ;
Abstract
In a hearing aid with a directional microphone system having a signal processing unit, an earphone and a number of microphones, the output signals of the respective microphones can be interconnected with one another with different weightings for generating an individual directional microphones characteristic by using one or more delay elements and the signal processing unit. The invention is also directed to a method for the operation of such a hearing aid.