US Patent Issued to CANON on April 7 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,282, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus: obtain information on a virtual viewpoint to generate a virtual viewpoint image, the virtual viewpoint image being an image of an object viewed from the virtual viewpoint, the object included in an image capturing region of an image capturing apparatus; obtain enlarged three-dimensional shape data representing the object in which at least a part of regions is greater than that of normal three-di...