US Patent Issued to CANON on April 14 for "Image capturing apparatus having audio recognition, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,089, issued on April 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus having audio recognition, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Akitaka Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ayaka Kinoshita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus obtains audio of an utterance that occurs in a vicinity of the image capturing apparatus, captures an image, and controls image transmission such that in response to a determination that an expression indicating a particular person is included in the audio of the utterance, transmits a first image related to the obtainment of the a...