Patent ID: 9669121
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: A61L,G01N

Claim:
1. A method for a hand-held device comprising: illuminating, with one or more UV LEDs associated with the hand-held device, a plurality of surfaces other than a surface of the hand-held device, wherein the plurality of surfaces includes a surface of an object with UV light; acquiring with a visible-light image sensor on the hand-held device, a first image of the surface of the object while the surface of the object is illuminated by the one or more UV LEDs; performing with the processor in the hand-held device, a function upon the first image to determine a type of contaminant disposed upon the surface of the object; determining with the processor in the hand-held device, sanitation techniques to perform in response to the type of contaminant that is determined, wherein the sanitation techniques includes UV LED exposure settings and user instructions; displaying with a touch-screen display on the hand-held device, the user instructions to the user and a UV illumination icon; receiving with the touch-screen display on the hand-held device, a user selection of the UV illumination icon; and illuminating, with the one or more UV LEDs associated with the hand-held device, the surface of the object with UV light to modify the contaminant disposed upon the surface of the object, in response to the UV light exposure settings and the user selection of the UV illumination icon.