US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Image capture apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,656, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus connects to a sound collection apparatus configured to collect sound data in different directions, generates stereophonic data based on sound data obtained from the sound collection apparatus, and corrects the stereophonic data based on a difference between a shooting direction of the image capture apparatus and a sound collecting direction of the sound collection apparatus."

The patent was filed on Oct. 30, 2024, under Applicati...