US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,077, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Tomoe Kikuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus comprises one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories. Execution of the instructions causes the one or more processors to obtain a normal map indicating a spatial distribution of normals on a surface of an object, obtain a direction vector of a virtual light source according to a variation in orientation of the ob...