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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2021
Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Katsumi Yabusaki, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Shinohara, Tokyo, JP;
Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
An example apparatus comprising an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images having temporal or spatial continuity; a channel assignment unit configured to assign a channel different from each other to at least a part of gradation information on a color and/or gradation information on brightness that can be acquired from each image of the plurality of images based on a predetermined rule; a composite image generation unit configured to generate one composite image in which gradation information on at least a part of each image can be identified by the channel by extracting and combining gradation information to which the channel is assigned from each of the plurality of images; and an inference unit configured to analyze the composite image and to infer the plurality of images.