Skin gloss evaluation device, skin gloss evaluation method, and skin gloss evaluation program

• US 10,638,968 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2018
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Naoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Beg, Samah A
• Application Number:
  US15/908,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20180184967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 796 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0077 Devices for viewing the surface of the body, e.g. camera, magnifying lens
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/442 Evaluating skin mechanical properties, e.g. elasticity, hardness, texture, wrinkle assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/25 Colour; Spectral properties, i.e. comparison of effect of material on the light at two or more different wavelengths or wavelength bands
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/57 Measuring gloss
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30088 Skin; Dermal
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection

Abstract

The present invention provides a gloss evaluation device, a gloss evaluation method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing gloss evaluation program capable of evaluating gloss of skin easily and highly accurately. In the gloss evaluation device of the present invention, a skin evaluation index calculation unit 5 calculates, as a skin evaluation index, a chroma difference between a portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the face of the subject to occur and a portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur that are set as analysis ranges, and a luster and oiliness evaluation unit 6 evaluates luster and oiliness on the basis of the chroma difference.

Claims

1. A skin gloss evaluation device comprising:

an image input unit that inputs a captured image obtained by imaging a face of a subject;

an analysis range setting unit that sets a portion in which it is easy for gloss of skin of the subject to occur and a portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur in the captured image as analysis ranges;

a skin evaluation index calculation unit that calculates a skin evaluation index related to the set of analysis ranges; and

a luster and oiliness evaluation unit that evaluates luster and oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the skin evaluation index,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation unit calculates, as the skin evaluation index, a chroma difference between the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the face of the subject to occur and the portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur that are set as the analysis ranges, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation unit classifies and evaluates luster and oiliness on the basis of the chroma difference.

2. The skin gloss evaluation device according to claim 1,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation unit further calculates, as the skin evaluation index, a lightness difference between the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the face of the subject to occur and the portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur that are set as the analysis ranges, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation unit classifies and evaluates the luster and the oiliness on the basis of the chroma difference and the lightness difference.

3. The skin gloss evaluation device according to claim 2,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation unit converts an L* image of the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the skin to occur that is set as the analysis range into information on a spatial frequency, weights the information on the spatial frequency with visual frequency characteristics of a human, and further calculates a total value of the weighted spatial frequency as an unevenness index, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation unit further evaluates intensity of luster or oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the unevenness index.

4. The skin gloss evaluation device according to claim 1,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation unit converts an L* image of the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the skin to occur that is set as the analysis range into information on a spatial frequency, weights the information on the spatial frequency with visual frequency characteristics of a human, and further calculates a total value of the weighted spatial frequency as an unevenness index, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation unit further evaluates intensity of luster or oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the unevenness index.

5. A skin gloss evaluation method comprising:

inputting a captured image obtained by imaging a face of a subject;

setting a portion in which it is easy for gloss of skin of the subject to occur and a portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur in the captured image as analysis ranges;

calculating a skin evaluation index related to the set of analysis ranges; and

evaluating luster and oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the skin evaluation index,

wherein the skin gloss evaluation method further comprises;

calculating, as the skin evaluation index, a chroma difference between the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the face of the subject to occur and the portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur that are set as the analysis ranges; and

classifying and evaluating luster and oiliness on the basis of the chroma difference.

6. The skin gloss evaluation method according to claim 5, further comprising:

further calculating, as the skin evaluation index, a lightness difference between the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the face of the subject to occur and the portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur that are set as the analysis ranges; and

classifying and evaluating the luster and the oiliness on the basis of the chroma difference and the lightness difference.

7. The skin gloss evaluation method according to claim 6, further comprising:

converting an L* image of the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the skin to occur that is set as the analysis range into information on a spatial frequency, weighting the information on the spatial frequency with visual frequency characteristics of a human, and calculating a total value of the weighted spatial frequency as an unevenness index; and

further evaluating intensity of luster and oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the unevenness index.

8. The skin gloss evaluation method according to claim 5, further comprising:

converting an L* image of the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the skin to occur that is set as the analysis range into information on a spatial frequency, weighting the information on the spatial frequency with visual frequency characteristics of a human, and calculating a total value of the weighted spatial frequency as an unevenness index; and

further evaluating intensity of luster and oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the unevenness index.

9. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a skin gloss evaluation program comprising:

an image input step of inputting a captured image obtained by imaging a face of a subject;

an analysis range setting step of setting a portion in which it is easy for gloss of skin of the subject to occur and a portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur in the captured image as analysis ranges;

a skin evaluation index calculation step of calculating a skin evaluation index related to the set analysis ranges; and

a luster and oiliness evaluation step of evaluating luster and oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the skin evaluation index,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation step includes calculating, as the skin evaluation index, a chroma difference between the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the face of the subject to occur and the portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur that are set as the analysis ranges, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation step includes classifying and evaluating luster and oiliness on the basis of the chroma difference.

10. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing the skin gloss evaluation program according to claim 9,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation step includes further calculating, as the skin evaluation index, a lightness difference between the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the face of the subject to occur and the portion in which it is difficult for gloss to occur that are set as the analysis ranges, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation step includes classifying and evaluating the luster and the oiliness on the basis of the chroma difference and the lightness difference.

11. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing the skin gloss evaluation program according to claim 10,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation step includes converting an L* image of the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the skin to occur that is set as the analysis range into information on a spatial frequency, weighting the information on the spatial frequency with visual frequency characteristics of a human, and calculating a total value of the weighted spatial frequency as an unevenness index, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation step includes further evaluating intensity of luster and oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the unevenness index.

12. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing the skin gloss evaluation program according to claim 9,

wherein the skin evaluation index calculation step includes converting an L* image of the portion in which it is easy for the gloss of the skin to occur that is set as the analysis range into information on a spatial frequency, weighting the information on the spatial frequency with visual frequency characteristics of a human, and calculating a total value of the weighted spatial frequency as an unevenness index, and

the luster and oiliness evaluation step includes further evaluating intensity of luster and oiliness of the face of the subject on the basis of the unevenness index.