Patent ID: 8170220

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus comprising: a video shooting unit; at least four non-directional microphones placed on a left front side, a right front side, a left rear side and a right rear side to the video shooting unit, of a main body of the video shooting unit; an audio signal processing unit adapted to output synthesized audio signals of a left rear channel and right rear channel by synthesizing audio signals from two non-directional microphones among the at least four non-directional microphones; and a deciding unit adapted to decide a position of a shooter to the video shooting unit, wherein the audio signal processing unit outputs the synthesized audio signal of the left rear channel by synthesizing the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the left rear side and the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the right rear side and outputs the synthesized audio signal of the right rear channel by synthesizing the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the right rear side and the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the right front side when the deciding unit decides that the position of the shooter is a left rear of the video shooting unit, and outputs the synthesized audio signal of the left rear channel by synthesizing the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the left rear side and the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the left front side and outputs the synthesized audio signal of the right rear channel by synthesizing the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the right rear side and the audio signal from the non-directional microphone placed on the left rear side when the deciding unit decides that the position of the shooter is a right rear of the video shooting unit.