ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,506, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus" was invented by Tsuyoshi Fujisaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus that can be worn by a user as a result of being hung around a neck of the user includes an image capturing circuit, a first microphone that obtains an environmental sound, at least two second microphones that are intended to obtain a voice of the user and are arranged at a first distance from each other, a detection unit configured to detect a direction of a face of the user; and a sound processing unit that, with use of sound signals from the at l...