Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device, method, and program for visualizing network of blood vessels of skin
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Application No.: US16830807Application Date: 2020-03-26
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Publication No.: US11622688B2Publication Date: 2023-04-11
- Inventor: Yusuke Hara , Toyonobu Yamashita , Masato Ninomiya , Souichi Saeki
- Applicant: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD. , MEIJO UNIVERSITY
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo; JP Nagoya
- Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.,MEIJO UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.,MEIJO UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo; JP Nagoya
- Agency: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2017-189270 20170929
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; A61B5/02 ; G01B9/02 ; G01B9/02091

Abstract:
A device of an embodiment includes: an optical mechanism; a control computation unit that controls driving of the optical mechanism, acquires a tomographic image of skin by processing an optical interference signal from an optical system, and calculates a network of blood vessels on the basis of the tomographic image; and a display device that displays an image of the network of blood vessels. The control computation unit sets a reference profile obtained by function approximation of an intensity profile in a depth direction of the acquired tomographic image, calculates a difference between an intensity value on the reference profile and an actual intensity value as an outlier V, the intensity values being those in the depth direction in the tomographic image, determines, as blood vessels or blood vessel candidates, coordinates with the outliers V within a predetermined blood vessel determination range, and calculates the network of blood vessels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200237230A1 DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR VISUALIZING NETWORK OF BLOOD VESSELS OF SKIN Public/Granted day:2020-07-30
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