Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image capturing apparatus and non-transitory recording medium
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Application No.: US16893662Application Date: 2020-06-05
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Publication No.: US11265477B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Yusuke Toriumi , Kikuo Kazama , Nobuhiko Tanaka
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-071918 20180403
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G06F3/16 ; H04R1/02 ; H04R1/40 ; G10L15/22 ; H04R3/00 ; H04N1/00 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N101/00

Abstract:
An image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit capable of moving its imaging direction and a sound input unit including a plurality of microphones, a sound source direction detecting unit which detects a sound source direction based on sound data from the sound input unit, a control unit which performs processing related to image capturing, and, a vibration detecting unit which detects a vibration due to a contact on a housing of the image capturing apparatus, wherein, in a case where a vibration due to a contact is detected, the sound source direction detecting unit detects a direction of sound due to the contact, the control unit estimates a position of the contact on the housing, and the control unit sets the imaging direction of the image capturing unit to a direction based on the estimated position.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200304718A1 IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2020-09-24
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