US Patent Issued to CANON on March 17 for "Image pickup apparatus, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium capable of easily retrieving desired-state image and sound portions from image and sound after specific sound is generated through attribute information added to image and sound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,186, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium capable of easily retrieving desired-state image and sound portions from image and sound after specific sound is generated through attribute information added to image and sound" was invented by Kenichiro Sasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Shogo Fujiwara (Tokyo), Tatsuo Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yudai Itoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus capable of easily retrieving desired-state image and sound portions through attribute information is provided. The image picku...