US 12,267,592 B2
Processing apparatus for generating movie, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
Yuka Igarashi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/308,119.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-076703 (JP), filed on May 6, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0362491 A1, Nov. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/69 (2023.01) [H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A processing apparatus comprising:
a sound obtainment unit configured to obtain sounds collected by sound collection devices;
an image obtainment unit configured to obtain a video image captured by an image capturing device;
a position obtainment unit configured to obtain position information of a sound source, which is subjected to a sound collection by each of the sound collection devices, with respect to the image capturing device; and
a control unit configured to determine a position of a viewer as an estimated standing position at which a looking state becomes equivalent to an image captured by the image capturing device when an image capturing field angle of the image capturing device is changed, and to determine a direction and volume in synthesizing the sounds obtained by the sound obtainment unit based on the determined estimated standing position,
wherein the control unit determines the direction so as to coincide with a direction in which the sound source is located viewed from the estimated standing position, and determines the volume so as to increase as a distance from the estimated standing position to the sound source decreases.