System and method for treating a part of a body
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsKin Fatt Phoon, Jacob Hendrik Botma
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Abstract
A treating system includes a controller and a treating device having a treating unit for treating a part of a body of a subject. An imaging arrangement is configured to obtain image data. The controller is configured to analyze the image data to identify a boundary between the part of the body of the subject and the environment around the part of the body; and determine the position of the treating device relative to the part of the body of the subject based on a position of the boundary in the image data.
Claims19
A treating system for cutting hair, comprising:
- a controller;
- and
- a treating device defining a hair cutting device, comprising:
- a treating unit defining a cutting unit for treating a part of a body of a subject;
- and
- an imaging arrangement that is configured to obtain image data;
- wherein the controller is configured to:
- analyze the image data to identify a boundary between the part of the body of the subject and a surrounding environment around the part of the body, and
- determine a device position of the treating device relative to the part of the body of the subject based on a boundary position of the boundary in the image data including based on a distance of the boundary from an edge of an image derived from the image data,
- wherein the controller is configured to determine a height of the treating device on the part of the body based on the distance of the boundary from an upper or a lower edge of the image derived from the image data.
A treating system, comprising:
- a controller;
- and
- a treating device, the treating device comprising:
- a treating unit for treating a part of a body of a subject;
- and
- an imaging arrangement that is configured to obtain image data;
- wherein the controller is configured to:
- analyze the image data to identify a boundary between the part of the body of the subject and a surrounding environment around the part of the body;
- and
- determine a device position of the treating device relative to the part of the body of the subject based on a boundary position of the boundary in the image data,
- wherein the part of the body of the subject is a head of the subject, and wherein the controller is configured to identify an ear of the subject in the image data and (i) determine a height of the treating device on the head based on a distance of the boundary from an upper or a lower edge of an image derived from the image data and an ear position of the ear in the image;
- and/or (ii) determine whether the treating device is on a side or a back of the head based on the ear position of the ear in the image.
A method of determining a device position of a hair cutting device of a hair cutting system, the hair cutting device comprising a trimmer for trimming hair of a part of a body of a subject;
- the method comprising acts of:
- obtaining image data using an imaging arrangement;
- deriving an edge of an image from the image data;
- analyzing the image data to identify a boundary between the part of the body of the subject and an environment around the part of the body;
- and
- determining the device position of the hair cutting device relative to the part of the body of the subject based on a position of the boundary in the image data including based on a distance of the boundary from the edge of the image,
- wherein the method further comprises an act of determining a height of the hair cutting device on the part of the body of the subject based on the distance of the boundary from an upper or a lower edge of the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.