Patents by Inventor Midori Inaba

Midori Inaba has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12165381
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquires normal information indicating a normal direction on a surface of an object and specular reflection information regarding reflection on the object in a specular reflection direction, and a compression unit to compress the normal information based on the specular reflection information and to perform a higher compression process for a lower specular reflection intensity on the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Midori Inaba
  • Publication number: 20230237614
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire characteristic information of a target, and a determination unit configured to determine a resolution level of illumination information to be used in rendering, based on reflection information contained in the characteristic information. The determination unit decreases the resolution level with an increase in a width, which indicates spread of a component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: MIDORI INABA
  • Publication number: 20220189137
    Abstract: An apparatus acquires normal information indicating a normal direction on a surface of an object and specular reflection information regarding reflection on the object in a specular reflection direction, and compress the normal information based on the specular reflection information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Midori Inaba
  • Patent number: 10529125
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises a first input unit configured to input first information indicating a fine irregularity of a surface of a body to be rendered; a generation unit configured to generate, as pieces of information each indicating a tilt of a surface of an object to be rendered, pieces of second information for respective wavelengths from the first information; a rendering unit configured to render objects for the respective wavelengths based on the pieces of second information for the respective wavelengths; and a combining unit configured to generate an image of the body to be rendered by combining the objects for the respective wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Midori Inaba
  • Publication number: 20190156561
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises a first input unit configured to input first information indicating a fine irregularity of a surface of a body to be rendered; a generation unit configured to generate, as pieces of information each indicating a tilt of a surface of an object to be rendered, pieces of second information for respective wavelengths from the first information; a rendering unit configured to render objects for the respective wavelengths based on the pieces of second information for the respective wavelengths; and a combining unit configured to generate an image of the body to be rendered by combining the objects for the respective wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Midori Inaba
  • Patent number: 10229530
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises a first input unit configured to input first information indicating a fine irregularity of a surface of a body to be rendered; a generation unit configured to generate, as pieces of information each indicating a tilt of a surface of an object to be rendered, pieces of second information for respective wavelengths from the first information; a rendering unit configured to render objects for the respective wavelengths based on the pieces of second information for the respective wavelengths; and a combining unit configured to generate an image of the body to be rendered by combining the objects for the respective wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Midori Inaba
  • Publication number: 20190037085
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus which generates data to be output to a projector in order to superimpose an image displayed by the projector on an image formed on a recording medium by a printer, and which has a first acquisition unit for acquiring image data representing an image to be reproduced, a second acquisition unit for acquiring information for specifying a reflection characteristic of the image to be formed on the recording medium by the printer, and a correction unit for correcting a brightness of color of the image represented by the image data based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Midori Inaba, Masashi Oya
  • Publication number: 20170206703
    Abstract: An image processing device comprises a first input unit configured to input first information indicating a fine irregularity of a surface of a body to be rendered; a generation unit configured to generate, as pieces of information each indicating a tilt of a surface of an object to be rendered, pieces of second information for respective wavelengths from the first information; a rendering unit configured to render objects for the respective wavelengths based on the pieces of second information for the respective wavelengths; and a combining unit configured to generate an image of the body to be rendered by combining the objects for the respective wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventor: Midori Inaba