Grooming systems, devices, and methods including detection of hair-covered skin lesions during grooming and including topographical analysis

摘要

Systems, devices, and methods are described for acquiring, among other things, lesion information from a hair or fur-covered region of a biological subject.

主权项

1. A hair and scalp care system, comprising:
a body structure including a plurality of spaced-apart projections configured to engage hair, one or more of the spaced-apart projections having a scalp contact region; one or more ultrasound transducers acoustically coupled to the scalp contact region of the spaced-apart projections; an ultrasound-imaging module including computing device circuitry and memory circuitry, the ultrasound-imaging module operably coupled to the one or more ultrasound transducers, the ultrasound-imaging module operable to transmit and receive ultrasound signals associated with a scalp lesion; a scalp lesion morphology module including computing device circuitry and memory circuitry, the scalp lesion morphology module operably coupled to the ultrasound transducers and configured to generate, responsive to one or more inputs from the one or more ultrasound transducers, a tactile response for delivery to a user; and an output component operably coupled to the scalp lesion morphology module and configured to deliver the tactile response to the user.