US 12,395,789 B2
Image pickup apparatus capable of efficiently retrieving subject generating specific sound from image, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium
Yudai Itoi, Tokyo (JP); Shogo Fujiwara, Tokyo (JP); Kenichiro Sasai, Kanagawa (JP); and Tatsuo Nishino, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/470,834.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-151619 (JP), filed on Sep. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0107226 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04R 1/40 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04R 1/406 (2013.01) [G10L 15/08 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
an image pickup circuit;
a CPU; and
a memory that stores a program that, when executed by the CPU, causes the image pickup apparatus to function as the following units:
a sound acquisition unit that acquires a sound;
a sound detection unit that detects a specific sound from a sound acquired by the sound acquisition unit during moving image capturing performed by the image pickup circuit;
a first detection unit that detects a direction in which the specific sound comes toward the image pickup apparatus and acquires information about a sound direction indicating the direction of the specific sound;
a second detection unit that detects a direction in which the image pickup apparatus is facing and acquires information about an image capturing direction indicating the direction of the image pickup apparatus; and
a control unit that performs control so as to store a moving image acquired by the image pickup circuit in the moving image capturing, a sound acquired by the sound acquisition unit in the moving image capturing and attribute information in a storage unit,
wherein the attribute information includes information indicating a first detection timing at which the specific sound has been detected by the sound detection unit during the moving image capturing, information about the sound direction corresponding to the first detection timing, and information about the image capturing direction corresponding to the first detection timing.