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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2009
Rajeshwar Chhibber, San Jose, CA (US);
Victoria Tu, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Eileen Flores, New Milford, NJ (US);
Smita Chawla, Suffern, NY (US);
Rajeshwar Chhibber, San Jose, CA (US);
Victoria Tu, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Eileen Flores, New Milford, NJ (US);
Smita Chawla, Suffern, NY (US);
Brightex Bio-Photonics LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing lip conditions using digital images. The method comprises acquiring a white-light image and an ultraviolet ('UV') image of the lips of a subject, 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 lip-pixels in the white-light and UV images, and obtaining results associated with at least one lip condition using information in the lip pixels in the first white light and UV images.