US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on April 21 for "Image processing apparatus and material information obtainment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,927, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and material information obtainment method" was invented by Shinya Wada (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Segawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captured image obtainment unit in an image processing apparatus obtains multiple sets of polarized images that have been captured while causing image capturing states to differ. For each polarized image, a polarization degree obtainment unit obtains a degree of polarization for an image of a target object. An image selection unit in a material information estimation unit, on the basi...