Patent ID: 7315379

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for evaluating a gloss character of an object, comprising: an acquisition unit adapted to acquire a measured value obtained by measuring the object using a measurement device that measures a light intensity from the object illuminated with light; a calculation unit adapted to calculate a specular reflected light intensity and a specular reflection neighboring light intensity from the measured value; and a display unit adapted to visually display the specular reflected light intensity and the specular reflection neighboring light intensity calculated by said calculation unit on a space of at least two dimensions, wherein said acquisition unit acquires a spatial distributed characteristic of reflection of the object, and the specular reflection neighboring light intensity is a width between two points on a graph, which is defined by an abscissa axis of the spatial distributed characteristic of reflection and an ordinate axis of a reflected light intensity, intersected by a hypothetical line extended horizontally from a reflected light intensity on the ordinate axis.