Apparatus and method for deciding or setting ideal lighting conditions and photographic conditions, etc. in image processing system, or for aiding in deciding or setting of said conditions
CA 2092709 A1 · Owner: Fujieda, Shiro · Inventors: Shibata, Fumio; Matsumoto, Toshihiko; Fujieda, Shiro
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The size of lighting devices (11 13) and the, uniform-luminance characteristics thereof are stored in a data base in advance. Shape features such as the size of an object and the depth and width of a groove formed in the object, as well as field-of-view information necessary in order to illuminate the object are entered, from an input unit (51). On the basis of the entered information and data-base information, conditions for photographing the object appropriately such as, conditions for illuminating the object so that a groove formed in the object will appear dark while other surface portions of the object appear uniformly bright are calculated by a decision unit (54, 55). For example, the …
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- Filed July 13, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 13, 2012.
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