ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,961, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Nozomu Kasuya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus is provided. Three-dimensional shape information indicating a three-dimensional shape of an object is acquired. The three-dimensional shape information is for generating a virtual viewpoint image of the object. Image quality of the object in a captured image of the object obtained by an image capturing apparatus is specified. Information indicating the image quality of...