Patent ID: 8045840

Claim:
A video-audio recording apparatus ( 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 107 ) for recording a video signal obtained by photographing an object and an audio signal obtained by collecting ambient sounds around a photographer ( 300 ) including a sound from the object, comprising: a camera unit ( 11 ) to photograph the object; a switching unit (Sw 1 ) to switch a binaural microphone ( 3 ) attached to the ears of the photographer ( 300 ) and a microphone other than the binaural microphone ( 3 ) from one to the other as a microphone to collect the ambient sounds; a video processor ( 12 ) to process the video signal provided by the camera unit ( 11 ); an audio processor ( 22 ) to process the audio signal provided by the microphone that collects the ambient sounds; a flag generator ( 42 ) to generate, when the switching unit (Sw 1 ) chooses the binaural microphone ( 3 ) as a microphone to collect the ambient sounds, a binaural flag signal indicating that an ambient sound collecting mode is a binaural mode; and a recorder ( 14 ) to record, on a recording medium, the video signal processed in the video processor ( 12 ), the audio signal processed in the audio processor ( 22 ), and the binaural flag signal.