Patent ID: 7948622

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: an image capturing section for obtaining, supposing an angle that defines a plane, which includes both a line connecting an imaging viewpoint and an observation point on an object together and a surface normal at the observation point, and that represents the angle of orientation of that plane around the line is identified by Ψ, polarized images by measuring the polarized light intensities of a light ray that is polarized parallel to the plane defined by the angle Ψ for multiple different angles Ψ; an image processing section for generating an image format by processing the polarized images that have been obtained by the image capturing section, the image format including, as data, a specular reflected image and a diffuse reflected image of the object from which a light intensity image of the object that is an average light intensity value of the polarized images at the multiple angles Ψ has been separated, surface normal information at respective pixel locations on the object, and light source information obtained at the object's position; and a high-resolution image reproducing section for reconstructing the object's shape by processing and synthesizing together the specular reflected and diffuse reflected images of the light intensity image of the object using the image format.