Patent ID: 8478009

Claim:
A method for generating a representation of a skin condition, the method comprising: storing, in a memory, image data, the image data including first image data relating to a first image of a skin condition and second image data relating to a second image of the skin condition, the second image being different from the first image; receiving, at a processor, the image data; performing, by the processor, a component analysis of the first image data to generate a first weighted component analysis result for the first image data, wherein the first weighted component analysis result represents the first image data as a weighted sum of components, wherein the components are based on one of skin color, skin contrast, skin tone, and gamma correction related to the skin; performing, by the processor, the component analysis of the second image data to generate a second weighted component analysis result for the second image data, wherein the second weighted component analysis result represents the second image data as a weighted sum of the components, wherein the components are based on one of skin color, skin contrast, skin tone, and gamma correction related to the skin; and performing, by the processor, a sampling analysis to the first weighted component analysis result and the second weighted component analysis result to generate a weighted image representation for the skin condition, wherein the weighted image representation represents the skin condition as a weighted sum of the components.