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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2020
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Kasugai, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus comprising: an image sensor configured to capture an image of a subject to generate image data; an audio input device configured to receive an audio signal indicating sound to be collected during image capturing with the image sensor; a detector configured to detect a subject region which corresponds to the subject in the image data; a controller configured to control a sound collection area where a sound from the subject is collected for the audio signal; wherein when the detector detects a plurality of subject regions, the controller compares a size of a subject region of a focus target with a size of another subject regions among the plurality of subject regions, and determines whether or not a subject corresponding to each of the plurality of subject regions is a sound collection target based on a comparison result.