Patents by Inventor Justin Nobuyuki Minow PINKNEY

Justin Nobuyuki Minow PINKNEY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Hair curl measurement
    Patent number: 10922576
    Abstract: A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the 5 surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the curve of each hair from its identified path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Abid Iftikhar, Georgina Elizabeth Lang, Robert McKeown, Justin Nobuyuki Minow Pinkney, Stephen Lee Wire
  • Hair diameter measurement
    Patent number: 10856773
    Abstract: A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the diameter of each hair from the acquired image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Abid Iftikhar, Georgina Elizabeth Lang, Robert McKeown, Justin Nobuyuki Minow Pinkney, Stephen Lee Wire
  • System and method for measuring hair diameter
    Patent number: 10660562
    Abstract: A system for measuring the diameter of a human hair (50), the system comprising: a mobile device (20); and a reference card (10) including a hair attachment mechanism (11a, 11b); the mobile device configured to convert an image of a human hair attached to the reference card by the attachment mechanism into a measurement of the diameter of the human hair, using the size of the reference card itself and/or the size of a calibration marker (12) on a surface of the reference card as a size reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Joanne Louise Cook, Myriam Fessi, Morag Fiona Hutcheon, Justin Nobuyuki Minow Pinkney, Robert Lindsay Treloar, Stephen Lee Wire
  • HAIR DIAMETER MEASUREMENT
    Publication number: 20180296129
    Abstract: A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the diameter of each hair from the acquired image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Abid IFTIKHAR, Robert MCKEOWN, Justin Nobuyuki Minow PINKNEY, Stephen Lee WIRE
  • HAIR CURL MEASUREMENT
    Publication number: 20180300581
    Abstract: A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the 5 surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the curve of each hair from its identified path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Conopco, Inc., d/b/a UNILEVER
    Inventors: Abid IFTIKHAR, Georgina Elizabeth LANG, Robert MCKEOWN, Justin Nobuyuki Minow PINKNEY, Stephen Lee WIRE
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING HAIR DIAMETER
    Publication number: 20180116583
    Abstract: A system for measuring the diameter of a human hair (50), the system comprising: a mobile device (20); and a reference card (10) including a hair attachment mechanism (11a, 11b); the mobile device configured to convert an image of a human hair attached to the reference card by the attachment mechanism into a measurement of the diameter of the human hair, using the size of the reference card itself and/or the size of a calibration marker (12) on a surface of the reference card as a size reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Joanne Louise COOK, Myriam FESSI, Morag Fiona HUTCHEON, Justin Nobuyuki Minow PINKNEY, Robert lindsay TRELOAR, Stephen Lee WIRE