Hearing device comprising a directional system configured to adaptively optimize sound from multiple target positions

A hearing aid adapted to be worn by a user, the hearing aid comprising:

• a microphone system comprising a multitude of M microphones, wherein M is larger than or equal to three, configured to pick up sound from an environment of the user and to provide corresponding M electric input signals;
• and
• a directional noise reduction system connected to the microphone system, the directional noise reduction system comprising a generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) beamformer configured to provide at least one beamformed signal based on a multitude of M intermediate beamformed signals,
• wherein the generalized sidelobe canceller comprises a multitude of M beamformers comprising a target maintaining beamformer and M−1 target cancelling beamformers, each of the multitude of M beamformers being configured to generate a respective intermediate beamformed signal of the multitude of M intermediate beamformed signals in dependence of respective beamformer weights,
• wherein each of the multitude of M beamformers—in a first mode of operation of the directional noise reduction system—is configured to generate the respective intermediate beamformed signal of the multitude of M intermediate beamformed signals based on the M electric input signals and respective beamformer weights, and
• wherein each of the M−1 target cancelling beamformers—in a second mode of operation of the directional noise reduction system—is configured to generate the respective intermediate beamformed signal based on a respective subset of the M electric input signals and the respective beamformer weights.