ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,289, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus, method, and storage medium" was invented by Midori Inaba (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire characteristic information of a target, and a determination unit configured to determine a resolution level of illumination information to be used in rendering, based on reflection information contained in the characteristic information. The determination unit decreases the resolution level with an increase in a width, which indicates spread of a component."
The patent was filed on Jan. 9, 2023, under Appl...