Wrinkle care support device and method for supporting wrinkle care

• US 9,798,921 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2015
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Couso, Jose
• Application Number:
  US14/919,714
• Publication Number:
  US 20160154992A1
• Time in Patent Office: 734 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 memory that stores instructions; and

a processor that, when executing the instructions stored in the memory, performs operations comprising;

obtaining an image where skin is photographed;

detecting a wrinkle in the skin from the obtained image, the wrinkle appearing in response to predetermined stimulation;

obtaining time-sequential images of the wrinkle after an appearance of the wrinkle in response to the predetermined stimulation;

detecting a wrinkle disappearing time, which is an elapsed time from the appearance of the wrinkle in response to the predetermined stimulation to a disappearance of the wrinkle, based on the obtained time-sequential images;

determining wrinkle care user presentation information corresponding to the detected wrinkle disappearing time; and

outputting the determined wrinkle care user presentation information.

2. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, wherein the memory further stores a table including wrinkle disappearing times and wrinkle care information associated with the respective wrinkle disappearing times, and

the processor further determines wrinkle care information based on the detected wrinkle disappearing time, by referring to the table.

3. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 2, wherein the processor further obtains additional information including at least one of an age of a person having the skin, a temperature, or a humidity,

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

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

4. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 2,

wherein the wrinkle care information includes types of wrinkles, and

wherein the types of wrinkles include a potential wrinkle type.

5. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 2,

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

6. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, wherein the processor detects a specific area of a face from the obtained image, and detects the wrinkle in the detected specific area.

7. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, wherein the processor evaluates effectiveness of wrinkle care based on the wrinkle disappearing time detected before the wrinkle care user presentation information is output and a wrinkle disappearing time detected after the wrinkle care user presentation information is output.

8. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined stimulation includes stimulation to displace the skin.

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

20. The wrinkle care support device according to claim 1, wherein the wrinkle care user presentation information differs depending on the detected wrinkle disappearing time.

10. A computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a processor, an image where skin is photographed;

detecting, by a processor, a wrinkle in the skin from the obtained image, the wrinkle appearing in response to predetermined stimulation;

obtaining, by a processor, time-sequential images of the wrinkle after an appearance of the wrinkle in response to the predetermined stimulation;

detecting, by a processor, a wrinkle disappearing time, which is an elapsed time from the appearance of the wrinkle in response to the predetermined stimulation to a disappearance of the wrinkle, based on the obtained time-sequential images;

determining, by a processor, wrinkle care user presentation information corresponding to the detected wrinkle disappearing time; and

outputting, by a processor, the determined wrinkle care user presentation information.

11. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 10, wherein a table is stored in a memory, the table including wrinkle disappearing times and wrinkle care information associated with the respective wrinkle disappearing times,

the method further comprising determining wrinkle care information based on the detected wrinkle disappearing time, by referring to the table.

12. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 11, further comprising obtaining, by a processor, additional information including at least one of an age of a person having the skin, a temperature, or a humidity;

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

wherein the method further comprising determining, by a processor, the wrinkle care information based on the obtained additional information, by referring to the table.

13. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 11,

wherein the wrinkle care information includes types of wrinkles, and

wherein the types of wrinkles include a potential wrinkle type.

14. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 11,

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

15. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 10, further comprising:

detecting a specific area of a face from the obtained image; and

detecting the wrinkle in the detected specific area.

16. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 10, further comprising evaluating effectiveness of a wrinkle care based on the wrinkle disappearing time detected before the wrinkle care user presentation information is output and a wrinkle disappearing time detected after the wrinkle care user presentation information is output.

17. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 10, wherein the predetermined stimulation includes stimulation to displace the skin.

18. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 10, further comprising:

creating, by a processor, an information display image by superimposing an image relating to a wrinkle care on a user representative image based on the determined wrinkle care user presentation information; and

displaying the created information display image.

19. The computer-implemented method for supporting wrinkle care according to claim 10, wherein the wrinkle care user presentation information differs depending on the detected wrinkle disappearing time.