Ear sizing system and method
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1. An ear measurement method, comprising:
- obtaining a two-dimensional image including both at least a portion of an ear and an associated calibration device, said associated calibration device being a reference object;
comparing the associated calibration device to a predesigned template;
determining a sizing parameter based on a difference in size between the image of the calibration device and the predesigned template; and
determining an ear size by applying the sizing parameter to the image of the ear.
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Abstract
An ear measurement system and method include obtaining an image of an ear and an associated a calibration device, and analyzing the image to determine the size of desired portions of the ear. Such sizing is then used, for example, for fitting an earbud or earbud adapter.
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1. An ear measurement method, comprising:
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obtaining a two-dimensional image including both at least a portion of an ear and an associated calibration device, said associated calibration device being a reference object; comparing the associated calibration device to a predesigned template; determining a sizing parameter based on a difference in size between the image of the calibration device and the predesigned template; and determining an ear size by applying the sizing parameter to the image of the ear. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An earpiece sizing system, comprising:
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an image capture device; a sizing program configured to receive a two-dimensional image of both an ear and a calibration device from the image capture device, comparing the image of the calibration device to a predesigned template, determine a sizing parameter based on a difference in size between the image of the calibration device and the predesigned template, and determining a size of the ear within the two-dimensional image by applying the sizing parameter to the ear within the two-dimensional image for sizing an earpiece. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of selecting an appropriate size earpiece selecting method, comprising:
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obtaining a two-dimensional image including both an ear and an associated calibration device, the associated calibration device being a known reference object; comparing the image of the calibration device to a scaling template; determining a sizing parameter based on a difference in size between the image of the calibration device and the scaling template; determining an ear size based on the sizing parameter; and assigning an earpiece based on the ear size. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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