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BMI, BODY AND OTHER OBJECT MEASUREMENTS FROM CAMERA VIEW DISPLAY

  • US 20190325599A1
  • Filed: 04/22/2018
  • Published: 10/24/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus configured to approximate a height of a subject, comprising:

  • a digital camera having a view display tier displaying the subject entirely within the view display;

    an application;

    a processing unit for executing the application, the application including program code, and a memory for storing an image of a subject viewed in the view display and for storing at least the vertical dimension of known substantially rectangular reference objects,the application having a user interface configured to prompt and receive at least one of the following two user inputs;

    (i) the type of the known substantially rectangular reference object held by the user or (ii) at least the vertical dimension of a substantially rectangular reference object held by the user,the processing unit configured to determine(i) a magnitude, as measured in pixels in the image, of the vertical dimension of the reference object held by the user,(ii) a magnitude of the actual vertical dimension of the reference object held by the user known from one of the two user inputs,(iii) a magnitude, as measured in pixels in the image, of the vertical dimension of the subject in the image,(iv) a ratio of the magnitude, as measured in pixels in the image, of the vertical dimension of the reference object, and the magnitude of the actual vertical dimension of the reference object, and(v) an estimated height of the subject from the magnitude, as measured in pixels in the image, of the vertical dimension of the subject in the image, and from the ratio.

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