US 12,452,506 B2
Image capturing apparatus
Tsuyoshi Fujisaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 12, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/438,806.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-021865 (JP), filed on Feb. 15, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0430550 A1, Dec. 26, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01); H04R 1/22 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/51 (2023.01) [H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04R 1/08 (2013.01); H04R 1/222 (2013.01); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capturing apparatus that can be worn by a user as a result of being hung around a neck of the user, the image capturing apparatus comprising:
an image capturing circuit;
a first microphone that obtains an environmental sound;
at least two second microphones that are intended to obtain a voice of the user and are arranged at a first distance from each other;
a light emitting circuit that emits infrared light toward a face of the user in a state where the image capturing apparatus is worn by the user;
a light receiving circuit that receives infrared light reflected off the face of the user;
a CPU; and
a memory storing a program that, when executed by the CPU, causes the CPU to function as
a detection unit configured to detect a direction of the face of the user; and
a sound processing unit that, with use of sound signals from the at least two second microphones, generates a directional sound signal that has directionality corresponding to the direction of the face of the user detected by the detection unit,
wherein the detection unit detects the direction of the face of the user based on a signal output from the light receiving circuit.