ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,287, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus" was invented by Yohei Yamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus is configured to record sound. The image pickup apparatus includes a housing unit, a first microphone and a second microphone configured to acquire stereophonic sound, and disposed at positions laterally separated from each other, and a third microphone separate from the first microphone and the second microphone. The housing unit includes a first storing unit and a second storing unit separated from each other. The first microphone is disposed in the first sto...