Color-Coded Hydrocolloid Substrates for Acne Spot Correction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current skincare treatments lack effective methods for tracking progress and managing multiple skin concerns simultaneously, especially for conditions like acne, pigmentation, post-inflammatory hyper-pigmentation, wrinkles, and fine lines, as they often require specific active agents and monitoring over time.
Innovation Solution
Color-coded substrates with area-specific shapes and active agents, combined with a mobile and web application for image processing, enable users to track skin concerns through personalized heat maps, ensuring compatibility and dosage accuracy, and providing real-time monitoring and recommendations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple skincare treatments are used simultaneously for different skin concerns, then treatment effectiveness is improved, but tracking progress and monitoring becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color-coded substrates where different colors represent different skin concerns (e.g., red for acne, blue for pigmentation, green for wrinkles). This visual color-coding system enables users to easily track multiple skin concerns simultaneously while maintaining clear distinction between different treatment areas, thus improving both treatment effectiveness and progress monitoring.
2Measurement precision
If specific active agents are used for different skin concerns, then treatment precision is improved, but application accuracy and dosage management becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements substrates with area-specific shapes designed to match different skin concern zones (e.g., circular for acne spots, elongated for wrinkles). Each substrate contains active agents specifically formulated for its designated skin concern, ensuring precise local treatment while making application straightforward through shape-guided placement.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual tracking of skin concerns is performed, then user engagement is improved, but time consumption and complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates a mobile application that automatically captures images of the color-coded substrates and uses image processing algorithms to track progress. The system self-updates treatment records and generates heat maps without requiring manual user input, thereby maintaining high user engagement through visual feedback while eliminating time-consuming manual tracking.
4Loss of information
If color-coded substrates with image processing are implemented, then progress tracking is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a mobile application that combines multiple functions: capturing substrate images, processing colors to identify skin concerns, tracking progress over time, and generating visual heat maps. By consolidating these functions into a single multi-functional application, the system improves progress tracking capabilities while minimizing the increase in overall system complexity.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method and system for tracking skin concerns. Color-coded substrates come in different colors, each color being associate with a different skin concern. The color-coded substrates include at least one hydrocolloid and active agent. The color-coded substrates can come in different area-specific shapes for applying on different areas of the skin or face. The color-coded substrates can come in different dosages. A computing device, such as a smartphone, can be used to take scans of the skin with or without substrates, and the computing device is configured to analyze the skin and color-coded substrates based on color or shape or other symbols to make recommendations so that a subject will be able to track the progress of any skin concern.