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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2019
Henkel Ag & Co. Kgaa, Duesseldorf, DE;
Hans Georg Knuebel, Duesseldorf, DE;
Erik Schulze Zur Wiesche, Bielefeld, DE;
HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA, Duesseldorf, NY (US);
Abstract
An arrangement for determining external damage to hair is given. A device comprising: a reading unit adapted to obtain optical characteristics of hair; and a processing unit adapted to receive the optical characteristics from the reading unit and to determine surface properties of the hair from the optical characteristics, wherein the processing unit implements a pattern recognition algorithm and is adapted to assign, by employing the pattern recognition algorithm, the surface properties to a predetermined damage including at least one damage type and an associated damage level and to output the damage.