Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Koninkliike Philips N.v.

Cornelis Willem Hameetman

Babu Varghese

Karl Catharina Van Bree

Adrienne Heinrich

Gerben Kooijman

Felipe Maia Masculo

Walter Hermans

Shakith Devinda Fernando

Arnold Johannes Martinus Jozeph Ras

Jan Brouwer

According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for use with a treatment device. The treatment device is configured to apply a light pulse to skin of a subject to perform a treatment operation to hairs on the skin. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to receive one or more images of a first area of the skin from an imaging unit, wherein the imaging unit is arranged to obtain images of the skin of the subject; process the one or more images to determine whether the hairs on the first area of the skin have been treated with a light pulse based on a degree of at least one of carbonisation and curling of the hairs on the first area of the skin as shown in the one or more images; and output a first signal indicating whether the hairs on the first area of skin have been treated with a light pulse.

Determining whether hairs on an area of skin have been treated with a light pulse

The invention provides a system () comprising a sensor () for measuring a skin parameter, the sensor () comprising a plurality of spatially separated light sources () configured to provide light source light (), and one or more detectors () configured at a first distance (d) from each of the light sources (), wherein the first distance (d) is selected from the range of 5-80 mm, wherein the sensor () is configured to provide the light source light () with optical axes (OL) under an angle (a) relative to an optical axis (O) of the one or more detectors () selected from the range of 10-80&#xb0;, wherein the sensor () comprises at least three light sources (), wherein the light sources () are configured to provide unpolarized light source light (), wherein the system () further comprises an analysis system () wherein the analysis system () is configured to generate a corresponding skin sensor value on the basis of a detector response of the one or more detectors () at one or more wavelengths selected from a spectral range of 350-780 nm.

Optical skin sensor using optimal spectral bands to minimize the effect of probe pressure

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Rotterdam, Netherlands

Cornelis Willem Hameetman