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US 2016/0104473 A1Published application
Imaging apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorMasayuki AIHARA
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Abstract
Provided is an imaging apparatus that performs sound processing suitable for each type of AF operation according to a lens f-number so that recorded sound is clear and contains little noise. The imaging apparatus includes a lens, a microphone for recording sound, and a filter configured to reduce noise contained in an output signal of the microphone. The noise reduction level of the filter is controlled according to the lens f-number so that the noise reduction level of the filter is increased when the lens f-number is large than when the lens f-number is small.
Claims2
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a lens;
- a microphone for recording sound;
- and
- a filter configured to reduce noise contained in an output signal of the microphone,
- wherein a noise reduction level of the filter is controlled according to an f-number of the lens such that the noise reduction level of the filter is increased when the f-number of the lens is large than when the f-number of the lens is small.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.