UV device for smartphone-based evaluation of skin conditions
AssigneeGalderma Research & Development
InventorsLaurent Petit, Laurent Chantalat
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Abstract
A method for evaluating skin conditions on a skin area of a user using an ultraviolet light device that can connect to a mobile device and a user input is disclosed. The method for evaluating skin conditions includes the steps of illuminating the skin area of the user with the ultraviolet light device operated by the mobile device, capturing an image of the illuminated skin area with an image capture device, processing the image with a processing program to determine the level of fluorescence on the skin area, and mapping progress of treatment of the skin condition based on the processed image compared to a control image.
Claims12
A method for evaluating a skin condition on a skin area of a user using a UV LED device configured to connect to a mobile device and responsive to user input, the method comprising:
- a. illuminating the skin area of the user with the UV device, which is configured to be operable using the mobile device;
- b. capturing an image of the illuminated skin area with an image capture device;
- c. processing the image with a mobile application, which the mobile device is configured to store, to determine a level of fluorescence on the skin area;
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- d. evaluating the skin area following the processing, and comparing the processed image to a control image, and
- e. mapping progress of treatment of the skin condition based comparison of on the processed image to the control image,
- wherein capturing the image comprises capturing multiple images using the image capture device, and
- wherein the processing includes creating a two-dimensional image from the multiple images, the two-dimensional image comprising a left facial side image, a right facial side image, and a frontal facial image which are superimposed on each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.