US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 17 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" (Japanese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,204, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Taishi Ono (Stuttgart, Germany), Yuhi Kondo (Tokyo) and Legong Sun (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The achromatic region extraction unit calculates achromatic determination information for each color component of the color polarized image using the polarization information acquired from the color polarized image, and extracts a region satisfying a condition that the achromatic determination information is achromatic as an achromatic region. The gain setting unit sets ...