Spectacle hearing aid

A hearing aid/spectacles combination comprising a spectacle frame and a first reproduction unit, wherein the spectacle frame has a first spectacle arm with a microphone array, the microphone array is equipped to pick up a sound signal and to transmit a processed signal produced on the basis thereof to the first reproduction unit, and the first reproduction unit is equipped to convert the processed signal into a processed sound signal, wherein the hearing aid/spectacles combination comprises:

• a sound registration module that comprises the microphone array;
• a beam forming module for forming a direction-dependent processed signal;
• a reproduction adaptation module for adapting a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit;
• a reproduction module that comprises the first reproduction unit;
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• a reproduction control module for controlling a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit, and, in that the beam forming module and the reproduction adaptation module are based on digital techniques, wherein:
• the sound registration module, the processing unit and the reproduction module being equipped for wireless communication with one another;
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• the wireless communication being possible only over a distance of less than one metre.

A hearing aid/spectacles combination comprising a spectacle frame and a first reproduction unit, wherein the spectacle frame has a first spectacle arm with a microphone array, the microphone array is equipped to pick up a sound signal and to transmit a processed signal produced on the basis thereof to the first reproduction unit, and the first reproduction unit is equipped to convert the processed signal into a processed sound signal, wherein the hearing aid/spectacles combination comprises:

• a sound registration module that comprises the microphone array;
• a beam forming module for forming a direction-dependent processed signal;
• a reproduction adaptation module for adapting a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit;
• a reproduction module that comprises the first reproduction unit;
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• a reproduction control module for controlling a reproduction characteristic of the processed sound signal produced by the first reproduction unit, and, in that the beam forming module and the reproduction adaptation module are based on digital techniques, wherein:
• the microphone array comprises a number of microphones placed some distance apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the first spectacle arm;
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• the sound registration module comprises, in addition to the microphone array, an analogue/digital converter for each microphone of the microphone array, a multiplexer connected to outputs of the analogue/digital converters, a transmitter, connected to the multiplexer, and a power source.

A hearing aid/spectacles combination comprising components, function modules and a reproduction control module arranged to control said function modules,

• the components being connected to one, another and comprising at least a spectacle frame and a first reproduction unit, the spectacle frame having at least one spectacle arm with a microphone array, the microphone array being equipped to pick up a sound signal and to transmit a processed signal produced on the basis thereof to at least one reproduction unit, and the at least one reproduction unit being equipped to convert the processed signal into a processed sound signal,
• the function modules encompassing a sound registration module for registering sound, a beam forming module for forming a direction-dependent processed signal, a reproduction adaptation module for adapting a reproduction characteristic for sound to be reproduced, and a reproduction module for reproducing the sound to be reproduced on the basis of a reproduction characteristic and as controlled by the reproduction control module, and
• at least one of the components being arranged to perform functions of several of the function modules such that performing of functions of function modules can be distributed differently over said components in different use situations, the reproduction control module storing different function scenarios for said different use situations, and being arranged to receive an input selection signal for one of said use situations, to assign at least one of the function modules to one or more of the components based on said input selection signal, and each of the components that got a function module assigned uses its capacity to performing the function of the at least one function module assigned to that component.