US Patent Issued to Canon on July 28 for "Imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,043, issued on July 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Keita Nagai (Tokyo) and Osamu Harada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an imaging circuit and at least one CPU or at least one circuit configured to realize the functions of the following units: a conversion unit configured to convert a sound signal acquired by a microphone including a plurality of microphone elements disposed at respective predetermined angles into stereophonic sound data; an extraction unit configured to extract a sound signal of a specific sound source from the sound signal ac...