Grooming systems, devices, and methods including detection of hair-covered skin lesions during grooming and including topographical analysis

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9307828-B2
Application number	US-201314106234-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2013
Priority date	Dec 13, 2013
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods are described for acquiring, among other things, lesion information from a hair or fur-covered region of a biological subject.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A grooming system, comprising:
a brush structure having a bristle face and a plurality of bristles extending outward from the bristle face;
an image sensor component forming part of the brush structure, the image sensor component including one or more image sensors located proximate a scalp contact region of one or more of the plurality of bristles, the image sensors operable to detect at least one of an emitted energy or a remitted energy associated with…

Assignees

• Elwha Llc

Inventors

• Hyde Roderick A
• Mcknight Gary L

Classifications

• A61B2562/046

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B2562/0266

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A46B9/023

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/444 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A61B5/0064

  Human Necessities · mapped topic