US Patent Issued to Canon on March 18 for "Apparatus, method, and storage medium for acquiring a reflection characistic of an object" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,656, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, method, and storage medium for acquiring a reflection characistic of an object" was invented by Akira Shibasaki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a control unit configured to control an illumination unit such that two or more light sources from among the plurality of light sources of the illumination unit are turned on when an image of an object is captured, and a derivation unit configured to derive a reflection characteristic of the object based on image data obtained by capturing the image of the object, wherein the control...