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US 2022/0189137 A1Published application
Apparatus, method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMidori Inaba
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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.
Claims19
An apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire 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 configured to compress the normal information based on the specular reflection information.
A method comprising:
- acquiring 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
- compressing the normal information based on the specular reflection information.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
- acquiring 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
- compressing the normal information based on the specular reflection information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.