Patent ID: 6349227
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
A non-invasive living body measuring apparatus comprising:a light source section for irradiating a portion of a living body; an image capturing section for capturing an image of the irradiated portion of the living body; a data processing section for setting an analysis region in the captured image to obtain information on the living body and for extracting a characteristic pattern from the captured image; an output section for outputting the obtained information on the living body; and an operating section for operating at least one of the image capture, data processing and output sections, wherein when the image capturing section captures images of a portion of a living body a plurality of times and the data processing section extracts a characteristic pattern from a first image, sets an analysis region in the first image, and then sets an analysis region in a subsequent image based on a relative position of the characteristic pattern in the subsequent image as determined by pattern matching within the subsequent image.