Patent ID: 7421105

Claim:
A skin analysis system, comprising: a staining apparatus for staining a sample containing corneocytes stripped off from a skin surface of a subject using an adhesive material comprising a stain solution comprising gentian violet of 2-4% by weight and brilliant green of 0.8-1.5% by weight, and a water-miscible organic solvent of 3-55% by weight, wherein the skin surface is immersed in the stain solution for 1-5 minutes; a microscope for obtaining an enlarged image of a corneocytes specimen prepared from the sample stained in said staining apparatus; corneocytes image data generating means for generating corneocytes image data that is image data of the enlarged image of the corneocytes specimen obtained by said microscope; measurement means for measuring size of a horny cell using said corneocytes image data, wherein the measuring size of a horny cell is conducted by automatic computation; transmitting means for transmitting to a server via a network the corneocytes image data and information representing the size of the horny cell obtained by said measurement means; receiving means for receiving from the server via the network evaluation information representing results obtained by evaluating at least one of roughness of a keratinized layer surface and arrangement regularity of corneocytes indicating completeness of the keratinized layer based on the corneocytes image data and the information representing the size of the horny cell; and display control means for displaying the evaluation information on display means.