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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Canfield Scientific, Incorporated, Fairfield, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Mani V. Thomas, Raritan, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Canfield Scientific, Incorporated, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/66 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 5/0077 (2013.01); A61B 5/444 (2013.01); G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); G06K 9/3233 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06K 9/6215 (2013.01); G06K 9/66 (2013.01); G06T 7/0016 (2013.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06K 2009/4666 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30088 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed that assist a user such as a doctor to track changes that occur in features of a subject's skin as the skin features evolve over time. Such a tracking can be done for images captured under different imaging/lighting modalities, by different image capture devices, and/or at different points in time. Methods and apparatus to automatically identify and track the unconstrained appearance/disappearance of skin features are disclosed.