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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2003
Masashi Inoue, Asaka, JP;
Masashi Inoue, Asaka, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus captures an image of an object through an image pickup lens by an image pickup element according to an image pickup operation, generates image data, and records the image data in a recording section. The apparatus includes a microphone that collects speech of a person who takes images, a speech recognition section that recognizes speech output from the microphone and outputs a character code, and an image signal processing section that decides whether a folder having a name code corresponding to the character string code exists in the recording section or not based on the character string code output from the speech recognition section and performs processing of recording the image data in the folder when the character string code matches the name code.