US Patent Issued to JVCKENWOOD on Feb. 17 for "Image recording apparatus and image recording method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,716, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to JVCKENWOOD Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Image recording apparatus and image recording method" was invented by Sho Watanabe (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an image recording apparatus and the like that can detect a direction of arrival of sound around a vehicle and dynamically set a region corresponding to the detected direction of arrival of the sound as a region of interest.An image recording apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image capturing the periphery of a vehicle; a sound acquisition unit that acquires sound of the periphery of the v...