ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,695, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Imaging apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Yoshinori Shindo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an external-audio microphone that collects an external sound that occurs outside the imaging apparatus, a noise reference microphone that obtains drive noise of the imaging apparatus or an external apparatus connected to the imaging apparatus, a detection unit that detects a noise period during which the drive noise occurs, an updating unit that updates background noise based on an audio signal obtained by the ...