HANDHELD FACIAL SKIN ANALYZING DEVICE

• US 20120275668A1
• Filed: 01/21/2012
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories (Government of The Republic of China)
• Original Assignee: National Applied Research Laboratories (Government of The Republic of China)
• Inventors: WU, CHIH-CHIEH, HUANG, CHI-HUNG, TSAI, DIN PING, CHOU, SHIH-JIE, LIAO, TAl-SHAN
• Application Number:
  US13/355,516
• Publication Number:
  US 20120275668A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/118
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0487 Special user inputs or interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/441 Skin evaluation, e.g. for skin disorder diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7405 using sound
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10024 Color image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20104 Interactive definition of region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30088 Skin; Dermal
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30201 Face
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection

Abstract

A handheld facial analyzing device based on estimating the characteristics of human facial skin includes an image capturing unit, a memory unit, a display unit, a processing unit, and a user interface. The processing unit receives an instruction from the user interface corresponding to a position on the image data displayed by the display unit and generates a facial analysis result having information on skin roughness and wrinkles from the gray-scale image data corresponding to the image data in accordance to the position in the instruction.

Claims

1. A handheld facial skin analyzing device, comprising:

an image capturing unit generating an image data;

a memory unit storing the image data;

a display unit for displaying the image data;

a processing unit coupled to the image capturing unit and the display unit, the processing unit converts the image data into a gray-scale image data and stores the gray-scale image data in the memory unit; and

a user interface;

wherein the processing unit receives an instruction from the user interface corresponding to a position on the image data displayed by the display unit and generates a facial analysis result having information on skin roughness and wrinkles from the gray-scale image data corresponding to the image data in accordance to the position in the instruction.

2. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, further comprising a sound unit for broadcasting the facial analysis result.

3. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the display unit is a touch screen display.

4. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the user interface is a keypad or a touch screen interface.

5. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the facial analysis result having information on skin roughness and wrinkles is displayed on the display unit.

6. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the image data and the gray-scale image data are a series of static images in chronological order.

7. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the user interface further comprises a message display section, a picture section, and a graphical user interface section.

8. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the facial analysis result includes information on the facial image, time of image, skin roughness, and state of wrinkles.

9. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the memory unit is a flash memory, or a cloud database.

10. The handheld facial skin analyzing device of claim 1, wherein the handheld facial skin analyzing device is a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, a tablet computer, or a digital camera.