Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device, method, and program for visualizing network of blood vessels of skin
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Application No.: US16830619Application Date: 2020-03-26
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Publication No.: US11238584B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Yusuke Hara , Toyonobu Yamashita , Masato Ninomiya , Souichi Saeki
- Applicant: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD. , UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo; JP Osaka
- Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.,UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA
- Current Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.,UNIVERSITY PUBLIC CORPORATION OSAKA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo; JP Osaka
- Agency: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2017-189269 20170929
- Main IPC: G06T7/00
- IPC: G06T7/00 ; G06T7/62 ; G06T7/66 ; A61B5/00 ; G06T11/00

Abstract:
A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism that guides light from a light source to skin tissue to scan the skin tissue; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires tomographic images of the skin by processing optical interference signals from the optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic images; and a display device that displays the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit computes autocorrelation values at coordinates in epidermis corresponding regions of the tomographic images, excludes combinations of tomographic images with the computed autocorrelation values corresponding to predetermined low autocorrelation, computes autocorrelation values at coordinates in dermis corresponding regions, determines coordinates at which the autocorrelation values in the dermis corresponding regions are within a predetermined low correlation range to be blood vessels or blood vessel candidates, and calculates a network of blood vessels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200226756A1 DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR VISUALIZING NETWORK OF BLOOD VESSELS OF SKIN Public/Granted day:2020-07-16
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