Canon kabushiki kaisha (20250106580). IMAGING APPARATUS

IMAGING APPARATUS

Organization Name

canon kabushiki kaisha

Inventor(s)

KEITA Nagai of Tokyo JP

OSAMU Harada of Kanagawa JP

IMAGING APPARATUS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250106580 titled 'IMAGING APPARATUS

Original Abstract Submitted

an imaging apparatus includes an imaging circuit and at least one cpu or at least one circuit configured to realize the functions of the following units: a conversion unit configured to convert a sound signal acquired by a microphone including a plurality of microphone elements disposed at respective predetermined angles into stereophonic sound data; an extraction unit configured to extract a sound signal of a specific sound source from the sound signal acquired by the microphone and convert the sound signal of the specific sound source into omnidirectional data of the stereophonic sound data; a combination processing unit configured to combine the stereophonic sound data and the omnidirectional data; and a recording unit configured to record sound data output from the combination processing unit and image data acquired by the imaging circuit.