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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Anita Govindjee, Ithaca, NY (US);

Su Liu, Austin, TX (US);

Cheng Xu, Beijing, CN;

Hong Chuan Yuan, Beijing, CN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/24 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/05 (2006.01); A46B 15/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/01 (2006.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/7264 (2013.01); A46B 15/0016 (2013.01); A46B 15/0055 (2013.01); A61B 1/00016 (2013.01); A61B 1/00039 (2013.01); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/05 (2013.01); A61B 1/24 (2013.01); A61B 5/01 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); A61B 5/0008 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for instant tongue sampling and diagnosis includes acquiring a plurality of tongue images from a plurality of digital oral devices, and a current health conditions, building a diagnosis framework for diagnosing a current health condition of a user by: i) analyzing the collected tongue images with a visual recognition engine to determine tongue characteristics of each tongue captured in the tongue images, and ii) correlating the tongue characteristics with the current health condition, identifying tongue characteristics from a received image of the tongue using the visual image recognition engine, applying the diagnosis framework to the tongue characteristics of the tongue to diagnosis the current health condition of the user, and modifying a graphical user interface of the digital oral device to display a custom health report indicative of the current health condition of the user, in response to applying the diagnosis framework.


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