US Patent Issued to Canon on April 21 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,035, issued on April 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Keigo Yoneda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second image processing apparatus 40 generates a virtual viewpoint image including an object for which a color is determined based on a method selected between a virtual viewpoint-dependent rendering method for determining a color based on virtual viewpoint information for identifying a position of a virtual viewpoint and a line-of-sight direction from the virtual viewpoint, shape information for identifying a three-dimens...