ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,124, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Texture generation apparatus, texture generation method, object, and program" was invented by Shinobu Kuroki (Tokyo), Masataka Sawayama (Tokyo) and Shinya Nishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By performing, on an original image having pixel values representing depths of positions on a textured surface of a target object, a conversion for making an element histogram of a steerable pyramid of the original image the same as or similar to an element histogram of a steerable pyramid of a reference image having pixel values representing depths o...