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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Hidehiko Ogasawara, Tokyo, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A photographed image acquiring sectionacquires data associated with a polarized image obtained through photographing of an object from an imaging apparatus, and stores the data in an image data storing section. A polarized image processing sectionof a real space recognizing sectionobtains distributions of degrees of polarization or normal vectors in an image plane by using the polarized image. A shadow area specifying sectionspecifies an area having peculiarity in the distribution of the degrees of polarization or the normal vectors in an image representing one surface of a subject as an area of a shadow. A state specifying sectionacquires information associated with a state of a real object or the shadow in the real space on the basis of the area of the image of the shadow. An output data generating sectionexecutes information processing by using state information in the real space, and outputs a processing result.