# US 2025/0220131 A1 · Imaging device, imaging method, and program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2025/0220131 A1 - Document ID: US20250220131A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/847,853 - Filed: 2023-03-06 - Published: 2025-07-03 - Earliest claimed: 2022-03-24 - Assignees: Sony Group Corporation - Applicants: Sony Group Corporation - Inventors: ASAKO FUKUTSUKA; ATSUSHI MASUDA; SHUNPEI KUMAKIRI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250220131A1 ## CPC - H04N 5/76: Television signal recording - G03B 15/00: Special procedures for taking photographs; Apparatus therefor - G10L 21/0272: Voice signal separating - G10L 21/028: using properties of sound source - G10L 21/034: Automatic adjustment - G10L 21/0364: for improving intelligibility - G10L 25/57: for processing of video signals - H04N 5/77: between a recording apparatus and a television camera - H04N 5/92: Transformation of the television signal for recording, e.g. modulation, frequency changing; Inverse transformation for playback - H04N 23/60: Control of cameras or camera modules - H04N 23/611: where the recognised objects include parts of the human body - H04N 23/67: Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G03B: APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR (optical parts of such apparatus G02B; photosensitive materials or processes for photographic purposes G03C; apparatus for processing exposed photographic materials G03D) - G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING ## Abstract The present technology relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of easily recording a voice of a specific person together with a specific sound as audio data of a moving image. An imaging device according to one aspect of the present technology separates a voice of a specific person and a specific sound other than the voice of the specific person from a recorded sound recorded when a moving image is captured, and records the voice of the specific person together with the specific sound as audio data of the moving image. The present technology can be applied to a camera having a function of capturing a moving image. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An imaging device comprising: an audio processing unit that separates a voice of a specific person and a specific sound other than the voice of the specific person from a recorded sound recorded when a moving image is captured; and a recording processing unit that records the voice of the specific person together with the specific sound as audio data of the moving image. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the audio processing unit separates an environmental sound included in the recorded sound as the specific sound, and the recording processing unit records the voice of the specific person together with the environmental sound. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, further comprising an imaging control unit that controls focusing on a face of an arbitrary person on a basis of a recognition result of a face shown as a subject in the moving image. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The imaging device according to claim 3, wherein the audio processing unit separates a voice of a person to be focused as a voice of the specific person. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The imaging device according to claim 4, wherein the audio processing unit separates a voice of a person selected by a user from among persons whose faces are recognized, as the voice of the specific person, the selected person being different from the person to be focused. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the audio processing unit separates a voice of a registered person from the recorded sound. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the recording processing unit records the voice of the specific person with a volume larger than a volume of the specific sound. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the audio processing unit separates the voice of the specific person and the specific sound during capturing of the moving image to be recorded. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the audio processing unit separates the voice of the specific person and the specific sound from the recorded sound using an inference model generated by machine learning. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the audio processing unit separates the voice of the specific person and the specific sound after capturing the moving image on a basis of the recorded sound that has been recorded. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The imaging device according to claim 10, wherein the recording processing unit adjusts respective volumes of the voice of the specific person and the specific sound according to setting by the user and records the voice of the specific person and the specific sound. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The imaging device according to claim 10, further comprising a display control unit that displays information indicating a type of sound separated from the recorded sound that has been recorded. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the recording processing unit records the voice of the specific person and the specific sound as audio data of different channels. ### Claim 14 An imaging method, comprising: by an imaging device, separating a voice of a specific person and a specific sound other than the voice of the specific person from a recorded sound recorded when a moving image is captured; and recording the voice of the specific person together with the specific sound as audio data of the moving image. ### Claim 15 A program for causing a computer to execute processing of: separating a voice of a specific person and a specific sound other than the voice of the specific person from a recorded sound recorded when a moving image is captured; and recording the voice of the specific person together with the specific sound as audio data of the moving image.