US Patent Issued to Canon on April 15 for "Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,039, issued on April 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Toshiyuki Sano (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaluation value for evaluating an object surface state is calculated in a more suitable form. An image processing apparatus acquires distance information about a distance between an image capturing apparatus and a subject, acquires image capturing apparatus information about the image capturing apparatus, and calculates a geometric condition on a positional relationship between a light source, the ...