US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 2 for "Shape estimation apparatus, processing method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,385, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Shape estimation apparatus, processing method, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yasufumi Takama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shape estimation apparatus estimates, based on captured images obtained by capturing an object from different directions using a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, a first element group representing a three-dimensional shape of the object, determines whether to delete elements from the first element group, and generates a second element group by deleting the elements from the first element group. With r...