Patent ID: 11881040
Assignee: SNUGS TECHNOLOGY LTD
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of producing an ear insert, the insert having a three-dimensional shape which is derived from image data corresponding to a two-dimensional image of an ear, the method comprising:
receiving, at a server from a remote device, the image data corresponding to the two-dimensional image of the ear;
scaling and re-orienting, at the server, the image data, to be within a predetermined acceptable range for the server to determine whether the image data satisfies an image quality criteria suitable for a matching operation; and when the image data does not satisfy the image quality criteria, rejecting the image data and transmitting to the remote device from the server a request for replacement image data;
extracting, at the server, particular anatomical features and making associated measurements from the image data to obtain at least one biometric feature of the ear, the at least one biometric feature of the ear being representative of a three-dimensional shape of at least part of the ear; and
determining, at the server, the three-dimensional shape by matching said at least one biometric feature of the ear with one of a plurality of pre-stored three-dimensional ear shapes, wherein each pre-stored three-dimensional ear shape corresponds to a respective ear.