APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MEASURING HAIR MOVEMENT CHARACTERISTICS

Patent №

US 11,475,575

Granted

2022-10-18

Filed 2019

Owner

CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVER

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16623158

An apparatus for measuring movement characteristics of a first hair switch includes a movement rig, a camera, and a computer. The first hair switch is mountable on the movement rig. The movement rig is operable to apply a forced oscillation to the first hair switch. The camera is for capturing images of the first hair switch during movement of the first hair switch during and after application of the forced oscillation. The computer is communicably connected to the camera. The computer includes a processor for processing the images and extracting quantitative measurements of the first hair switch from the images. A filter is applied to the images to remove any stray hairs detected before subsequent analysis of the images is carried out.

VisionG06T 7/0004G06T 7/20G06T 7/12G06T 7/62G06T 2207/30108

AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.05
AI hardware0.03
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVER

assignment · 513800394

Assignors

LAWTON, GEOFFREY FRANCIS, COWAN, JAMES STEVEN, CLEAVER, GRAHAM, BENTLEY, CHRISTOPHER DAVID, GRIFFITHS, LLYR GLYNDWR, MAHERS, ERIC GORDON, ROBERTS, JULIE MARIE, STASIK, ANETA MAGDALENA

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