US 11,029,916 B2Granted

Electronic device and control method and storage medium

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsTomokazu Mori, Yoshihiro Kobayashi, Akitaka Yoshizawa, Hitoshi Nishitani

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Abstract

An electronic device includes an internal speaker, a connection unit configured to connect an external speaker, an operation unit configured to receive a user operation, and a control unit, wherein, in a case where the external speaker is connected via the connection unit in a state in which the internal speaker is controlled not to output an electronic sound, the control unit controls the operation unit to receive an instruction to change a setting for switching whether to output an electronic sound, and wherein, in a case where the external speaker is not connected via the connection unit in a state in which the internal speaker is controlled not to output an electronic sound, the control unit controls the operation unit not to receive an instruction to change a setting for switching whether to output an electronic sound.

Claims11

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

an internal speaker;
a connection unit configured to connect an external speaker;
an operation unit configured to receive a user operation;
a control unit;
and
a display unit,
wherein the control unit controls the display unit so as to display an item that makes a setting of shutter sound selectable between on and off and an item that makes a setting of silent mode selectable between on and off,
wherein, in a case where the silent mode is set to be on via the operation unit, the internal speaker is controlled not to output an electronic shutter sound from the internal speaker, and, in addition, the control unit performs control so as to disable the user to operate the item that makes the setting of shutter sound selectable between on and off,
wherein, in a case where the silent mode is set to be off via the operation unit, the internal speaker is controlled to be able to output an electronic shutter sound from the internal speaker, and, in addition, the control unit performs control so as to enable the user to operate the item that makes the setting of shutter sound selectable between on and off, and
wherein, even in a case where the silent mode is set to be on via the operation unit, if the external speaker is connected via the connection unit, the control unit performs control so as to enable the user to operate the item that makes the setting of shutter sound selectable between on and off.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/787,995Filed 11 Feb 2020
Priority: JP JP2019-02671818 Feb 2019
Published: US 2020/0264834 A120 Aug 2020
Granted: 8 Jun 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

G06F 3/165
Sound input; Sound output: management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
H04R 3/12
Circuits for transducers: for distributing signals to two or more loudspeakers
H04N 23/60
Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof: control of cameras or camera modules
H04N 23/62
Control of cameras or camera modules: control of parameters via user interfaces

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