Kit to Facilitate Identifying at Least One Glove Particularly Suitable to be Worn By a Particular Individual

• US 20160213084A1
• Filed: 01/22/2016
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Medline Industries Incorporated (Medline Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: O'Sullivan, Megan
• Granted Patent: US 11,484,078 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A41H 1/02 Devices for taking measurements on the human body
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/11 Hand-related biometrics; Hand pose recognition

Abstract

A kit to facilitate identifying at least one glove particularly suitable to be worn by a particular individual includes a backdrop having at least two visually-discernible calibration marks disposed thereon, a camera, a memory having stored therein characterizing parameters for a variety of different gloves, and a control circuit that operably couples to the latter. The control circuit presents to a kit user via a display an image of the particular individual'"'"'s hand as placed on the backdrop, and then presents a plurality of user-placeable markers by which the kit user marks particular locations of the particular individual'"'"'s hand. The control circuit then processes the image of the particular individual'"'"'s hand as marked by the kit user and as a function of the two visually-discernible calibration marks to identify at least one glove that is particularly suitable to be worn by the particular individual.

Claims

1. A kit to facilitate identifying at least one glove particularly suitable to be worn by a particular individual, the kit comprising:

a backdrop sized and configured to have a hand of the particular individual placed thereupon and further having at least two visually-discernable calibration marks disposed thereon;

a camera;

a memory having stored therein characterizing parameters for each of a variety of different gloves;

a control circuit operably coupled to the memory and to the camera and configured to;

present to a kit user via a display an image of the particular individual'"'"'s hand as placed on the backdrop;

present to the kit user via the display a plurality of user-placeable markers by which the kit user marks particular locations of the particular individual'"'"'s hand;

process the image of the particular individual'"'"'s hand as marked by the kit user and as a function of the two visually-discernable calibration marks to identify at least one glove that is particularly suitable to be worn by the particular individual.

2. The kit of claim 1 wherein the backdrop comprises a disposable sheet.

3. The kit of claim 1 wherein the backdrop has at least an outline of a human hand disposed thereon to serve as a hand-placement locator for the particular individual.

4. The kit of claim 3 wherein the at least two visually-discernable calibration marks are each disposed on an opposite side of the hand-placement locator.

5. The kit of claim 1 wherein control circuit, memory, and camera comprise integral parts of a shared platform.

6. The kit of claim 1 wherein the characterizing parameters for each of a variety of different gloves include at least some parameters selected from the group of parameters comprising:

glove size;

glove material;

glove material texture;

glove material thickness; and

additives.

7. The kit of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured, while processing the image of the particular individual'"'"'s hand as marked by the kit user and as a function of the two visually-discernable calibration marks to identify at least one glove that is particularly suitable to be worn by the particular individual, and via the display, to present an animated image of a hand-scanning process.

8. The kit of claim 1 wherein the particular locations of the particular individual'"'"'s hand that the kit user is to mark with the user-placeable markers include tips of the digits of the particular individual'"'"'s hand.

9. The kit of claim 8 wherein the particular locations of the particular individual'"'"'s hand that the kit user is to mark with the user-placeable markers further include areas between the digits of the particular individual'"'"'s hand.

10. The kit of claim 9 wherein the particular locations of the particular individual'"'"'s hand that the kit user is to mark with the user-placeable markers further include the width of the palm as corresponds to the particular individual'"'"'s hand.

11. The kit of claim 1 wherein the memory has further stored therein at least one glove preference as corresponds to the particular individual, and wherein the control circuit is further configured to identify the at least one glove that is particularly suitable to be worn by the particular individual as a function of the at least one glove preference.

12. The kit of claim 11 wherein the at least one glove preference comprises a preference with respect to at least one of:

a glove material;

a glove texture;

double gloving;

glove material thickness; and

a glove additive.

13. The kit of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to identify at least two different gloves that are particularly suitable to be worn by the particular individual.

14. The kit of claim 13 wherein the control circuit is further configured to present, via the display, the at least two different gloves that are particularly suitable to be worn by the particular individual.

15. The kit of claim 14 wherein the control circuit is further configured to present the at least two different gloves in a prioritized order such that a most suitable glove is presented first.

16. The kit of claim 14 wherein the control circuit is further configured to present a recommended glove size with each of the at least two different gloves.

17. The kit of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to provide the kit user with an opportunity to specify the different gloves that are available for the control circuit to consider when identifying the at least one glove that is particularly suitable to be worn by the particular individual.