Patent Document ID: 9536345
Application ID: 13727504
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for enhancing a three-dimensional (3-D) image, the 3-D image having depth and texture information associated therewith, the apparatus comprising logic, at least partially hardware logic, to: generate, dependent at least in part upon the depth information, a 3-D mesh having surface mesh sections; determine, dependent at least in part upon the texture information, texture sections corresponding to the surface mesh sections, wherein the texture sections having higher levels of color intensity correspond to the surface mesh sections having higher levels of specular reflection, and the texture sections having lower levels of color intensity correspond to the surface mesh sections having lower levels of specular reflection; rank the texture sections and corresponding surface mesh sections based on the color intensity of the texture sections and the specular reflection of the corresponding surface mesh sections; determine light source vectors for a selected plurality of the color-intensity ranked texture sections to thereby determine a location of one or more light sources in the 3-D image, wherein the plurality of the color-intensity ranked texture sections is selected based on the ranking of the texture sections; and adjust a characteristic of the one or more light sources to alter the color intensity of one or more of the color-intensity ranked texture sections to thereby produce an enhanced image.