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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2001
Applicant:
Christophe Dauga, Levallois-Perret, FR;
Inventor:
Christophe Dauga, Levallois-Perret, FR;
Assignee:
L'Oreal, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus designed to examine a surface includes a polarization analyser element, or analyser, placed in the path of a light beam reflected by the surface, a device configured to take digital images and placed in the path of the beam reflected by the surface downstream of the analyser, and a processing unit capable of calculating the color and the intensity of a plurality of pixels of at least one image.