US Patent Issued to Sintokogio on Dec. 16 for "Appearance determination device and appearance determination method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,122, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).

"Appearance determination device and appearance determination method" was invented by Yoshinari Nakano (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appearance determination device includes at least one processor. The at least one processor carries out a determination step of determining whether an object of determination is conforming or nonconforming, in accordance with a color image and a shape image, the color image being generated by photometric stereo and representing a color optical image of the object of determination, the shape image being generated b...