WRINKLE CARE SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING WRINKLE CARE

• US 20160154992A1
• Filed: 10/21/2015
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Piece Future Pte., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: SHINODA, MASAYO, Asai, Rieko, Nishi, Chie, Sato, Tetsuro, Ajiki, Kaori, Yamanashi, Tomofumi
• Granted Patent: US 9,798,921 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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: A61B 5/7275 Determining trends in physiological measurement data; Predicting development of a medical condition based on physiological measurements, e.g. determining a risk factor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7282 Event detection, e.g. detecting unique waveforms indicative of a medical condition A61B5/4094, A61B5/4818, A61B5/349, A61B5/0823 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/161 Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

A wrinkle care support device includes: a wrinkle change detector that detects a change made in a wrinkle after occurrence of the wrinkle, the wrinkle having occurred in skin by provision of predetermined stimulation; a wrinkle care information determiner that determines, based on the detected change, user presentation information relating to wrinkle care; and an information outputter that outputs the determined user presentation information. Note that the wrinkle care support device may further include: an image obtainer that obtains an image where the skin is photographed; and a wrinkle detector that detects the wrinkle from the obtained image. The detection of the change may include a detection of a wrinkle disappearing time starting from when the predetermined stimulation is provided until the wrinkle is no longer detected.

Claims

1. A wrinkle care support device comprising:

a wrinkle change detector that detects a change made in a wrinkle after occurrence of the wrinkle in skin by provision of predetermined stimulation;

a wrinkle care information determiner that determines, based on the detected change, user presentation information relating to wrinkle care; and

an information outputter that outputs the determined user presentation information.

2. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image obtainer that obtains an image where the skin is photographed; and

a wrinkle detector that detects the wrinkle from the obtained image,

wherein the detection of the change includes a detection of a wrinkle disappearing time between a detection of the wrinkle appearing by the provision of the predetermined stimulation and a detection of the wrinkle disappearing.

3. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 2, further comprising an information storage that stores a table including wrinkle disappearing times and wrinkle care information associated with the respective wrinkle disappearing times,

wherein the wrinkle care information determiner determines wrinkle care information based on the detected wrinkle disappearing time, by referring to the table, to determine the user presentation information.

4. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 3, further comprising an additional information obtainer that obtains additional information including at least one of an age of a person having said skin, a temperature, and a humidity,

wherein the table further includes the additional information associated with the respective wrinkle care information, and

wherein the wrinkle care information determiner determines the wrinkle care information based on the obtained additional information, by referring to the table.

5. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 3,

wherein the wrinkle care information includes types of wrinkles, and

wherein the types of wrinkles include a potential wrinkle type.

6. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 3,

wherein the wrinkle care information includes a wrinkle care suggestion for a potential wrinkle type.

7. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 2, wherein the wrinkle detector detects a specific area of a face from the obtained image, and detects the wrinkle in the detected specific area.

8. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 2, further comprising a wrinkle care evaluator that evaluates effectiveness of wrinkle care based on a wrinkle disappearing time detected before the user presentation information is output and a wrinkle disappearing time detected after the user presentation information is output.

9. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined stimulation includes skin massage with fingers.

10. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, wherein the information outputter further creates an information display image by superimposing an image relating to a wrinkle care on a user representative image based on the determined user presentation information, and displays the created information display image.

11. A method for supporting wrinkle care, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting a change made in a wrinkle after occurrence of the wrinkle in skin by provision of predetermined stimulation;

determining, based on the detected change, user presentation information relating to wrinkle care; and

outputting the determined user presentation information.