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Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003

Filed:

Nov. 27, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:

Thomas Dickel, Buttenheim, DE;

Benno Knapp, Erlangen, DE;

Hartmut Ritter, Neunkirchen, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 2/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 2/500 ;
Abstract

For level limitation of a time-discrete signal in a digital hearing aid having at least an input transducer, an A/D converter, a signal processing unit and an output transducer, the sampling rate of the time-discrete signal is boosted in the signal path following the A/D conversion and signal values of the time-discrete signal with a boosted sampling rate are limited to a maximum value. Harmonics that arise upon limitation of the signal values that are folded back into the audible frequency range are thus suppressed.


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