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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2006
Applicants:
Fumio Nakaya, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokazu Ichikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventors:
Fumio Nakaya, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokazu Ichikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/47 (2006.01); G01B 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device has first and second units that lights an object at first or second incident angles; a unit that generates image signals according to the intensity of the received light; units that guides diffusely and specularly reflected light from the object to the image-input unit; units that generates glossiness information, and texture information for the object, and image data based on image signals generated; a unit that generates and outputs the image data from glossiness information, texture information, and image data.