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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2009
Bart Willem Jan Spikker, Eindhoven, NL;
Rieko Verhagen, Eindhoven, NL;
Robbert Adrianus Maria Van Hal, Eindhoven, NL;
Natallia Eduardauna Uzunbajakava, Eindhoven, NL;
Aleksey Kharin, Eindhoven, NL;
Bastiaan Wilhelmus Maria Moeskops, Eindhoven, NL;
Bart Willem Jan Spikker, Eindhoven, NL;
Rieko Verhagen, Eindhoven, NL;
Robbert Adrianus Maria Van Hal, Eindhoven, NL;
Natallia Eduardauna Uzunbajakava, Eindhoven, NL;
Aleksey Kharin, Eindhoven, NL;
Bastiaan Wilhelmus Maria Moeskops, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a system and method for removing hair. The hair removal system comprises a hair detection device and a hair removal device (; S) operatively coupled to the hair detection device, wherein the hair detection device comprises an imaging device comprising a first image sensor (; S) which is constructed and arranged to detect an image of a part of a skin () to be treated, and a control unit () adapted to discern, in the image, a hair () on the part of the skin (), and operatively coupled to the hair removal device (; S) so as to control its operation, characterized by preventing means coupled to the control unit () and being adapted to disable the hair detection device or the hair removal device during a preventing period after the control unit has discerned the respective hair for the first time.