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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/514 (2017.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 13/254 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/008 (2013.01); G06T 7/514 (2017.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 13/254 (2018.05); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01);
Abstract
A processing apparatus includes a corrector that, when the object is sequentially irradiated with light from three or more light sources with mutually different positions, corrects a light source condition to calculate surface normal information of an object on the basis of brightness of each of the light sources.