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

Claim 17:
18. A server adapted to produce 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 server comprising:
a receiving module configured to receive at the server from a remote device, the image data corresponding to the two-dimensional image of the ear, the receiving module determining whether the image data received by the server satisfies image quality criteria, the receiving module configured to reject the image data by the server if the received image data does not satisfy the image quality criteria and to send a signal from the server to the remote device requesting replacement image data;
a measuring module configured to scale and re-orient, at the server, the image data, to be within a predetermined acceptable range for the server;
an extraction module configured to extract, at the server, particular anatomical features and make 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
a matching module configured to determine, 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.