US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,934, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Yuichi Nakada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomokazu Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to obtain three-dimensional shape data with high accuracy from three-dimensional shape data representing an approximate shape of an object. Three-dimensional shape data of an object existing in an image capturing space is obtained. Further, a plurality of distance images each representing a distance to the object and corresponding to a plurality of viewpoints is obtained. Then, correct...