US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 11 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium, and image processing system, with change instruction to change form of 3D data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,241, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium, and image processing system, with change instruction to change form of 3D data" was invented by Kiyokatsu Ikemoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Eguchi (Tokyo), Takuya Ishibashi (Tokyo), Shingo Mori (Kanagawa, Japan), Kanji Suzuki (Saitama, Japan), Masahiro Tsujibayashi (Chiba, Japan) and Taisei Mori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus generates an image pertaining to a subject. The apparatus obtains a captured image and asperity information of the subject; generates ...