US Patent Issued to Canon on July 28 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,230, issued on July 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Takayuki Jinno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus acquires a plurality of captured images acquired by shooting an inspection target object under a plurality of illumination conditions. The apparatus performs a first inspection for inspecting a surface profile of the inspection target object based on a normal image indicating a normal direction of each position of the inspection target object. ...