US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 17 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,191, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Kyohei Kikuta (Tokyo) and Satoshi Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data obtained by capturing an image of an object to which light is emitted from a plurality of lighting units, a setting unit configured to set a first area with a low reliability for deriving normal information regarding the object in an image represented by the acquired image data, a first derivation unit configured to der...