Patent ID: 7224385

Claim:
A video camera having a multi-channel audio signal processor for recording and/or reproducing audio signals of a plurality of channels and video signals simultaneously in a single recording medium, the video camera comprising: first, second, third, and fourth microphones producing, respectively, front, rear, left, and right channel audio signals; converting means for converting audio signals of the left channel and the right channel selected from said front, rear, left, and right channel audio signals from said first, second, third, and fourth microphones into an audio signal of one channel; means for extracting a bass component from each of said front, rear, left, and right channel audio signals from said first, second, third, and fourth microphones and for combining the extracted bass components to produce a bass audio signal of one channel; and encoding means for encoding to one channel audio signal said front, rear, left, and right channel audio signals from said first, second, third, and fourth microphones and said audio signal of one channel from said converting means and said bass audio signal of said one channel, wherein said one-channel output signal from said encoding means is recorded in said single recording medium.