Patent ID: 7336810

Claim:
A method for evaluating the beauty of a skin, comprising: (B1) imaging a target skin under a polarized lighting and obtaining digital image data; (B2) imaging the same target skin under the polarized lighting by using a polarizing filter having a plane of polarization orthogonal to the plane of polarization of the polarized lighting and obtaining digital image data; (B3) extracting data of a mirror-reflected light component from the digital image data obtained in steps (B1) and (B2); (B4) performing multiresolution analysis on the data of the mirror-reflected light component extracted in step (B3), separating the data into data of a plurality of different frequency components, and selecting data of a plurality of high frequency components; (B5) synthesizing the selected high frequency components and defining the synthesized data as reconstructed image data; (B6) determining the dispersion of respective pixel components in terms of the reconstructed image data; and (B7) associating an average value from values of the dispersion obtained in step (B6) with the beauty of the skin.