Conopco, Inc.

Justin Nobuyuki Minow Pinkney

Stephen Lee Wire

Abid Iftikhar

Robert McKeown

Georgina Elizabeth Lang

Joanne Louise Cook

Robert Lindsay Treloar

Myriam Fessi

Morag Fiona Hutcheon

A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the 5 surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the curve of each hair from its identified path.

Hair curl measurement

A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the diameter of each hair from the acquired image.

Hair diameter measurement

A system for measuring the diameter of a human hair (), the system comprising: a mobile device (); and a reference card () including a hair attachment mechanism (); the mobile device configured to convert an image of a human hair attached to the reference card by the attachment mechanism into a measurement of the diameter of the human hair, using the size of the reference card itself and/or the size of a calibration marker () on a surface of the reference card as a size reference.

System and method for measuring hair diameter

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Justin Nobuyuki Minow Pinkney