Noise reducing microphone apparatus

A noise reducing microphone apparatus for reducing effects of wind noise on desired sounds comprising:

• an adaptive noise canceller which has a primary input signal representing the desired sounds and the wind noise and a reference input signal representing only the wind noise and in which the reference input signal is passed through an adaptive filter and subtracted from the primary input signal and the adaptive filter is adaptively controlled by an output signal resulting from the subtraction;
• a pair of microphone units disposed in close proximity to each other and each receiving the desired sounds and the wind noise, the output of one of the microphone units being supplied as the primary input signal to the adaptive noise canceller;
• a single vibration detector for generating a vibration signal proportional to vibration affecting the pair of microphone units;
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• adding and subtracting means for performing subtraction of output signals from the pair of microphone units and performing addition of said vibration signal to a result of the subtraction and producing an output supplied as the reference input signal to the adaptive noise canceller,
• wherein an output from one of the microphone units is supplied as the primary input signal to said adaptive noise canceller and an output signal from the adding and subtracting means is supplied as the reference input signal to the adaptive noise canceler so that an output of the adaptive noise canceller has reduced wind noise effects.