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US 2017/0000570 A1Published application
Systems and Methods for Planning Hair Transplantation
AssigneeRestoration Robotics, Inc.
InventorsHui Zhang, Franklin Timothy McArthur, Gabriele Zingaretti
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Abstract
Systems and methods for creating a treatment plan for cosmetic procedures, for example, a hair transplantation procedure, are provided. The treatment plan allows creating a natural looking hair whorl either automatically, with a user input, or by a combination of both. Various techniques and methods described in the application provide for improved planning of a natural looking hair.
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A method of automatically creating a plan for a hair whorl on a body surface, comprising:
- identifying a hair boundary curve, the hair boundary curve having a plurality of control points;
- identifying a hair whorl center;
- automatically assigning an initial orientation value to each of the plurality of control points, the initial orientation value based on the orientation of a virtual line from the whorl center to each of the respective plurality of control points;
- and
- automatically generating proposed follicular unit implantation sites within an area outlined by the hair boundary curve based on the plurality of control points and their corresponding assigned initial orientation values.
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A system for automatically creating a plan for a hair whorl on a body surface, the system comprising:
- a user interface including a user input device;
- at least one non-transitory storage medium storing instructions and one or more modules for executing operations on image data, the one or more modules comprising instructions for:
- identifying a hair boundary curve, the hair boundary curve having a plurality of control points;
- identifying a hair whorl center;
- assigning an initial orientation value to each of the plurality of control points, the initial orientation value based on the orientation of a virtual line from the whorl center to each of the respective plurality of control points;
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- generating proposed follicular unit implantation sites within an area outlined by the hair boundary curve based on the plurality of control points and their corresponding assigned initial orientation values.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.