US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Image capture apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,690, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capture apparatus and control method" was invented by Osamu Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus comprises a detection unit that detects a radio signal, an extraction unit that extracts feature information of a subject from image data, a selection unit that selects a sound reception device that receives sound data from at least one sound transmission device from which the radio signal can be received, and a reception unit that receives, by a wireless communication unit, sound data from the selected sound transmission device...