Patent ID: 7397565

Claim:
A device comprising: a first lighting unit that lights an object at a first incident angle; a second lighting unit that lights the object at a second incident angle; an image-input unit that receives light and generates image signals for the received light according to the intensity of the received light; a first guiding unit that guides diffusely reflected light from the object to the image-input unit, allows the image-input unit to generate first image signals for the diffusely reflected light from the object lit by the first light source and allows the image-input unit to generate second image signals for the diffusely reflected light from the object lit by the second light source; a second guiding unit that guides specularly reflected light from the object to the image-input unit, allows the image-input unit to generate third image signals for the specularly reflected light from the object; a unit that generates glossiness information expressing the glossy regions on the object based on the first and the third image signals generated by the image-input unit; a unit that generates texture information expressing the textured region on the object based on the first and the second image signals generated by the image-input unit; and a unit that generates image data based on at least one of the first signals or the second signals, and includes the generated glossiness information and the generated texture information in the image data.