US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 25 for "Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,520, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Ryota Ichiba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprising: an appearance information obtainment unit configured to obtain appearance information indicating an appearance of a target object; an illumination information obtainment unit configured to obtain illumination information for illuminating the target object; a direction calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the appearance information and the...