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Image pickup apparatus

  • US 7,405,754 B2
  • Filed: 12/11/2003
  • Issued: 07/29/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

  • an image pickup element that generates image data according to an image pickup operation, by capturing incident light from an object through an image pickup lens;

    a recording section that records the image data;

    a microphone that collects speech of a person who picks up images and outputs a speech signal, wherein the speech includes a keyword representing the content of an image;

    a speech recognition section that recognizes the speech signal output from the microphone and outputs a character string code; and

    an image signal processing section thatdecides, after the image is obtained by the image pickup element, whether a folder having a name code corresponding to the character string code exists in the recording section or not based on the character string code output from the speech recognition section andperforms processing of recording image data representing the image in the folder when the character string code matches the name code.

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