Patent ID: 9615786
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of enabling a solo home user to identify new or significantly changed skin lesions for the purpose of detecting possible melanomas, comprising: (a) i) holding a maneuverable device selected from the group consisting of: ii) attaching one of a plurality of view-specific templates to said glass platen of said maneuverable device and said template containing text and graphics to be viewed while scanning and wherein automatic labeling to be included in said digital images are printed and said template has backings of opaque reflective shapes on the upper surface and where said automatic labeling to be included in said digital images are printed on the undersurface, and iii) aligning the user's body by referring to scanning and alignment aids of said text and graphics of said template including view-specific orientations and directions for control of workflow, and iv) providing said plurality of view-specific templates to make a plurality of digital images representing a plurality of views of portions of the body, whereby said solo home user can create aligned high resolution images of their own body in privacy without a photographer and further can zoom in to find, magnify, measure and document skin lesions even on parts of their bodies they cannot see directly and further forming a record of said skin lesions and locations currently without said skin lesions and further said view-specific scanning and alignment aids are automatically obscured in said digital images and further said digital images are automatically calibrated, and automatically labeled with view-specific information from said template which solves view confusion and mirror confusion.