Mobile Selfie Skin Analysis with Integrated Ring Light
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing skincare applications face challenges in accurately assessing facial skin health using mobile selfie images due to variations in image quality and lighting, requiring users to travel to controlled settings for reliable analysis.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that captures and analyzes mobile selfie images using a facial skin analysis server, which processes images to determine facial skin health assessments, including binary outcomes, scores, or visual maps, and transmits these assessments back to the user's mobile device for display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If images are captured using mobile devices in uncontrolled environments, then convenience and accessibility are improved, but image quality and lighting consistency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces controlled lighting elements (ring lights, LED arrays) as intermediaries between the mobile device camera and the user's face. These lighting components are integrated into the mobile device or positioning structure, providing consistent illumination that mediates the harsh effects of uncontrolled environmental lighting, thereby maintaining both convenience and image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring optimal lighting conditions and camera parameters before image capture. The mobile device positions itself or activates integrated lighting to ensure proper illumination is established prior to taking the selfie, preventing lighting issues rather than correcting them during analysis.
2Measurement precision
If controlled lighting settings are used in labs or studios, then image quality and analysis accuracy are improved, but user convenience and accessibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by integrating all necessary components (camera, controlled lighting, processing software) into a portable mobile device that users can operate independently. The device automatically configures lighting and capture parameters, allowing users to perform skin analysis at home without requiring professional lab facilities or technician assistance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the complex lab-based analysis system into portable, integrated components that fit within a mobile device. By dividing the functionality into modular elements (camera module, lighting array, processing unit) that can be combined in a handheld device, the system brings lab-quality analysis capabilities to the user's location.
3Reliability
If multiple images are captured to ensure quality, then analysis reliability is improved, but time consumption and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs periodic action by capturing multiple images in rapid succession with automatic timing intervals. The mobile device takes a series of photos at predetermined time points during a single positioning event, then selects the best quality image or combines them for analysis, ensuring reliability without requiring multiple separate visits or extended time investment from the user.
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AI summary
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for transmitting an assessment of facial skin health of a customer are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving an image of a customer from a mobile endpoint device of the customer, analyzing one or more parameters of a facial skin of the customer in the image of the customer, determining the assessment of facial skin health of the customer based on the one or more parameters of the facial skin that are analyzed and transmitting the assessment of facial skin health to the mobile endpoint device of the customer to cause the mobile endpoint device to automatically display the assessment of facial skin health.