Computer-Readable Non-Transitory Storage Medium Having Image Processing Program Stored Therein, Image Processing Apparatus, Image Processing System, and Image Processing Method

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 3 -- NINTENDO CO., LTD., Kyoto, Japan has been assigned a patent (No. US 12322030 B2, initially filed May 1, 2023) developed by Atsushi Miyagi, Kyoto, Japan, and Kazuhide Ueda, Kyoto, Japan, for "Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having image processing program stored therein, image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method."

A first texture including first color information, a second texture including second color information, and a third texture including height information are managed. The first color information, of the first texture corresponding to a surface of an object, obtained on the basis of a first correspondence relationship is obtained. A second correspondence relationship which is a relationship between the surface of the object and the second texture is corrected on the basis of a relationship between a line-of-sight direction of a virtual camera and orientation of the surface of the object and the height information specified on the basis of a third correspondence relationship, and the second color information is obtained from the second texture on the basis of the corrected second correspondence relationship. Then, a rendering color is determined using the obtained color information, and the surface of the object is rendered.

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