US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 23 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for reconstructing three-dimensional coordinates of a feature point of an object" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,862, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for reconstructing three-dimensional coordinates of a feature point of an object" was invented by Tomokazu Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resulting from a reduction in the accuracy of a feature point obtained from a viewpoint inclined with respect to the front direction of an object, the estimation accuracy of three-dimensional coordinates of the feature point is reduced. Consequently, from each of a plurality of images captured from a plurality of viewpoints, the feature point of the obje...