US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 15 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method for shape measurement of target" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,573, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method for shape measurement of target" was invented by Teppei Kurita (Tokyo) and Shinichiro Gomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing device that includes a control unit. The control unit acquires a captured image of a target imaged by a sensor. The captured image is an image obtained from reflected light of light emitted to the target from a plurality of light sources arranged at different positions, respectively. The control unit extracts a flat region from the captur...