Microphone apparatus, reproducing apparatus, and image taking apparatus
First Claim
1. A microphone apparatus comprising:
- image taking means having at least an image pickup device and a image taking optical system;
displaying means for displaying a picture imaged by said image taking means;
pointing means for pointing a desired position of the picture displayed on the displaying means;
determining means for determining a direction of an object of the picture in accordance with the position pointed by said pointing means;
sound collecting means having a plurality of microphone units for collecting a sound that comes from the object taken by said image taking means; and
directivity generating means for generating a sound directivity signal with which said sound collecting means collects the sound coming from the direction determined by said determining means.
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Abstract
A microphone apparatus of the present invention is applied to a camera including a panel type view finder for displaying a picture taken by the camera, a touch panel for pointing a desired position of the picture displayed on the view finder, determining circuit for determining a direction of the real picture in accordance with the position pointed by the touch panel, a microphone device having a plurality of microphone units for collecting a sound that comes from the picture taken by the camera; and directivity generating circuit for generating a sound directivity signal with which the microphone device collects the sound coming from the direction determined by the determining circuit.
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14 Claims
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1. A microphone apparatus comprising:
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image taking means having at least an image pickup device and a image taking optical system;
displaying means for displaying a picture imaged by said image taking means;
pointing means for pointing a desired position of the picture displayed on the displaying means;
determining means for determining a direction of an object of the picture in accordance with the position pointed by said pointing means;
sound collecting means having a plurality of microphone units for collecting a sound that comes from the object taken by said image taking means; and
directivity generating means for generating a sound directivity signal with which said sound collecting means collects the sound coming from the direction determined by said determining means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A reproducing apparatus, comprising:
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sound reproducing means for reproducing a plurality of audio signals that is collected by a plurality of microphone units of sound collecting means and recorded to sound recording means;
displaying means for reproducing and displaying a picture that is imaged by image taking means and recorded by picture recording means;
pointing means for pointing a desired position of the picture displayed by said displaying means;
determining means for determining the direction of an object of the imaged picture in accordance with the position pointed by said pointing means; and
directivity generating means for generating a sound directivity signal of the sound reproduced by said sound reproducing means in the direction determined by said determining means. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An image taking apparatus, comprising:
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image taking means having at least an image pickup device and a image-taking optical system;
displaying means for displaying a picture taken by said image taking means; and
sound collecting means having a microphone unit disposed on the rear surface side of a picture display surface of said displaying means, wherein;
said displaying means is rotatable along with said sound collecting means. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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