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US 10,368,751 B2Granted
Skin scanning device with hair orientation and view angle changes
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMani Abedini, Rajib Chakravorty, Rahil Garnavi, Lenin Mehedy
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Abstract
A scan head for scanning skin includes a frame and a camera coupled to the frame. A controllable probe is coupled to the frame and is configured to change an orientation of hair on the skin to be examined and imaged with the camera.
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A system for scanning skin, comprising:
- a frame;
- at least one camera coupled to the frame, the camera being configured to acquire at least one image of a subject;
- a memory;
- an image processing module stored in the memory, the image processing module being configured to determine whether hair is present in the at least one image of the subject;
- and
- a repositionable, controllable probe coupled to the frame, the probe being configured to be repositioned to change an orientation of hair detected by the image processing module.
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A scanning system, comprising:
- a link having one or more scan heads formed thereon;
- a robot coupled to the link and configured to scan the link over skin of a body;
- the one or more scan heads including:
- a frame;
- and
- at least one camera coupled to the frame, the camera being configured to acquire at least one image of a subject;
- a memory;
- an image processing module stored in the memory, the image processing module being configured to determine whether hair is present in the at least one image of the subject;
- a repositionable, controllable probe coupled to the frame, the probe being configured to be repositioned to change an orientation of hair detected by the image processing module.
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A method for scanning skin, comprising:
- scanning a subject to acquire at least one image of the subject using a scan head having at least one camera coupled to a frame and a repositionable, controllable probe coupled to the frame;
- determining whether hair is present in the at least one image of the subject by an image processing module;
- activating the repositionable, controllable probe to change an orientation of hair detected by the image processing module;
- and
- imaging an area of interest on the subject with the orientation of hair changed using the at least one camera.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.