US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for associating defect regions of a 3D model with silhouette images" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,724, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for associating defect regions of a 3D model with silhouette images" was invented by Daichi Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make it possible to easily identify a silhouette image causing a hole or chip having occurred in a 3D model and an imaging device corresponding to the silhouette image. Defect region information identifying a defect region of a 3D model representing a three-dimensional shape of an object, which is generated based on a plurality of silhouette images, is s...