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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2020
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Kasugai, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes: an imager configured to capture a subject image to generate image data; an audio input device configured to receive audio data indicating sound during; a detector configured to detect a subject and a its type based on the image data generated by the imager; an audio processor configured to process the audio data received by the audio input device based on the type of subject detected by the detector; and an operation member configured to set a target type to be processed by the audio processor among a plurality of types including first and second types different from each other, based on a user operation, wherein the audio processor is configured to process the audio data to emphasize or suppress specific sound corresponding to the target type in audio data received when a subject of the target type is detected in the image data.