US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 19 for "Image pickup apparatus capable of efficiently retrieving subject generating specific sound from image, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,789, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus capable of efficiently retrieving subject generating specific sound from image, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yudai Itoi (Tokyo), Shogo Fujiwara (Tokyo), Kenichiro Sasai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuo Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus capable of efficiently retrieving a subject generating a specific sound from an image is provided. The image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup circuit, a CPU, and a memory that stores a program that, when executed by th...