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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2017
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A captured image acquisition sectionacquires, from an imaging apparatus, data of a polarized image obtained by capturing a target object and stores the data into an image data storage section. A normal line distribution acquisition sectionof a region segmentation sectionacquires a distribution of normal line vectors of a subject surface using the polarized image. A region decision sectionevaluates the distribution of normal line vectors with a predetermined criterion indicating stability such as a dispersion and determines a region in which the stability is high as a region of a figure of a subject to segment the image. An output data generation sectioncarries out various processes using a result of the segmentation to generate output data.