US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Image pickup apparatus having microphones" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,032, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus having microphones" was invented by Ryohei Kando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus in which three microphone units are arranged with high space efficiency. The image pickup apparatus comprises a lens barrel having an optical axis, a first microphone unit disposed to a left of the optical axis in a left-right direction when viewed from an optical axis direction, a second microphone unit disposed to a right of the optical axis in the left-right direction, and a third microphone unit disposed between the first microphone uni...