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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takuro Miyasato, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiko Fukutani, Yokohama, JP;
Ryuichi Nanaumi, Tokyo, JP;
Kota Nakano, Tokyo, JP;
Jumpei Shirono, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Mitsuhashi, Kawasaki, JP;
Kazuhito Oka, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Employed is an information acquisition apparatus which acquires characteristic information about an object using a reception signal of acoustic waves generated by the object that is irradiated with light, the apparatus having: region acquisition unit for acquiring information indicating a plurality of regions of mutually different characteristics, in the object; sound velocity determination unit for determining sound velocity in the plurality of regions, using the information indicating the plurality of regions; and characteristic information acquisition unit for acquiring the characteristic information about the object, using the sound velocity and the reception signal.