Automated system and method for harvesting or implanting follicular units
AssigneeRestoration Robotics, Inc.
InventorsMohan Bodduluri, Philip L. Gildenberg, Donald E. Caddes
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Abstract
Automated systems and methods for creating a plan for performing a procedure (for example, hair transplantation) are provided. In some embodiments, the plan is generated automatically by a processor. A user interface may be configured to allow a user to input one or more of the parameters of the plan. In certain embodiments, the hair transplantation plan takes into consideration existing hair.
Claims26
An apparatus for creating a plan for hair transplantation, the apparatus comprising:
- a user interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- identify existing hair in an image of a body surface;
- create a hair transplantation treatment plan including one or more parameters;
- and
- generate a proposed curve having hair implantation locations and hair orientations, the hair implantation locations of the proposed curve and the hair orientations of the proposed curve automatically generated based on specified control points and orientations at the specified control points,
- wherein the hair implantation locations and hair orientations are automatically planned taking into consideration and avoiding the existing hair.
An apparatus for creating a plan for hair transplantation, the apparatus comprising:
- a user interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- identify existing hair in an image of a body surface;
- and
- create a hair transplantation treatment plan including a harvesting region and an implantation region, wherein the implantation region comprises proposed hair implantation locations and hair orientations at the proposed hair implantation locations;
- identify one or more global landmarks in the image of the body surface, and wherein the hair implantation locations and hair orientations are automatically planned with respect to the one or more global landmarks taking into consideration and avoiding existing hair.
A method for creating a plan for hair transplantation, the method comprising:
- processing, by a processor, an image of a body surface to identify existing hair;
- and
- creating a hair transplantation treatment plan including one or more parameters,
- wherein the creating step comprises generating a proposed curve having hair implantation locations and hair orientations, the hair implantation locations of the proposed curve and the hair orientations of the proposed curve automatically generated based on specified control points and orientations at the specified control points;
- and
- wherein the hair implantation locations and hair orientations are automatically planned taking into consideration and avoiding the existing hair.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.