Patent Document ID: 20070040907
Application ID: 11206671
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for capturing and analyzing images of body features to identify treatments, comprising: a base unit with a processor and a display; an image management software component for presenting on the display a user interface to prompt a user to capture images in preselected locations on a body and to receive captured image data; at least two light sources under control of the user interface providing light following first and second light paths from the respective light sources to the plane of an imaging station, each said light path having a significant portion of its light directing on the plane of the imaging station at a grazing angle of about ten to about thirty degrees and the first and second light paths when projected onto the plane of the imaging station intersecting at an angle of at least sixty degrees; an image sensor for receiving light from the light sources that is reflected from the surface of a body feature located at the imaging station and for producing pixel image data representing the body feature; and a rating software component receiving the pixel image data from the image sensor and configured to mimic the judgment of a dermatologist to provide a rating vector representing the condition of three or more attributes of the body feature represented by the pixel image data.