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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yuki Tsujimoto, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshinobu Iida, Fuchu, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23299 (2018.08); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04N 5/232411 (2018.08); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit; a sound collecting unit; a detecting unit for detecting sound pressure level of a voice sound collected by the sound collecting unit, a recognizing unit for recognizing that a voice sound collected by the sound collecting unit is an instruction for shooting by the image capturing unit; and a control unit, wherein the control unit controls the image capturing unit to shoot in response that the detecting unit detects sound pressure level of a voice sound collected by the sound collecting unit is larger than a predetermined sound pressure level, and that the recognizing unit recognizes the voice sound as an instruction for shooting by the image capturing unit.


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