Patent ID: 11950030
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An electronic apparatus communicable with a plurality of sound collection devices, the electronic apparatus comprising:
a display unit;
at least one processor; and
at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic apparatus to function as:
an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an image capturing apparatus, from the image capturing apparatus;
a position acquisition unit configured to acquire, for each of the plurality of sound collection devices, positional information relative to the image captured by the image capturing apparatus;
a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display, for each of the plurality of sound collection devices, a display item corresponding to the each sound collection device, based on the positional information for the respective each sound collection device, acquired by the position acquisition unit, and to display, with the plurality of displayed display items, the image acquired by the image acquisition unit,
wherein the display control unit is configured to perform control to display, for the each sound collection device, the corresponding display item, even if the display item corresponds to a sound collection device not located within a range of image capturing of the acquired image; and
a control unit configured to perform control to acquire sound information from a sound collection device, selected by a user, from the plurality of sound collection devices, and to associate and record the acquired image and the acquired sound information in a recording device.