ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,602, issued on March 25.
"Image processing method, program, and image processing device" was invented by Iwao Kubota (Chofu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image processing includes obtaining image I[0,0] of a picture captured by an image capture means, in a state where light is irradiated to the picture from a light source at a reference position relative to a normal line of the picture, obtaining image I[Alpha1,0] of the picture captured by an image capture means, in a state where the light is irradiated to the picture from the light source at a position inclined from the reference position at an angle Alpha1 in the first di...