US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 18 for "Image processing apparatus and method for natural representation of light in an image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,051, issued on March 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus and method for natural representation of light in an image" was invented by Kenichiro Hosokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method and a program that enable natural representation of light in an image in accordance with a viewpoint. The image processing apparatus calculates information indicating a change in a light source region between an input image and a viewpoint-converted image that is obtained by performing viewpoint conversion on the input image on the bas...