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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2009
Rajeshwar Chhibber, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashutosh Chhibber, San Jose, CA (US);
Shefali Sharma, Petaluma, CA (US);
Rajeshwar Chhibber, San Jose, CA (US);
Ashutosh Chhibber, San Jose, CA (US);
Shefali Sharma, Petaluma, CA (US);
BrighTex Bio-Photonics LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing skin conditions using digital images. The method comprises acquiring a white-light image and an ultraviolet ('UV') image of at least a portion of a body surface, such as a person's face, each of the white-light and UV images including a plurality of pixels and each pixel in the UV image corresponding to a respective pixel in the white-light image. The method further comprises identifying skin-pixels in the white-light and UV images, and obtaining results associated with at least one skin condition using information in the skin pixels in the first white light and UV images.