12.2.07 | By Guy Griml

Your skin's story

In December 2005, Dr. Yosef Segman flew to the United States for a crucial meeting that would determine the fate of his startup, Cnoga.
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סינוגה: כך בודקים לכם לחץ דם ודופק

בדצמבר 2005 עלה דר' יוסף סגמן (49) על המטוס לארה"ב, נרגש לקראת פגישה גורלית שתקבע את עתיד חברת הסטארט-אפ שלו - סינוגה (Cnoga). המטרה: לבצע ניסוי שיבחן את הטכנולוגיה שפיתח בשנים האחרונות. מדידה פיזיולוגית באמצעות צילום וידיאו של שינויים בצבע רקמת העור. נשמע כמו מדע בדיוני? איך אפשר בכלל לאבחן מחלות באמצעות צילום וידיאו?

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November 16th 2006

Phoning your way to a perfect complexion

MUNICH, Germany — Coming soon to a mobile phone near you: digital mirror technology that can analyze facial skin, warn three days in advance of an impending pimple and enable the victim to take preventative measures before it becomes a huge zit on your first date with Prince—or Princess—Charming .

"It's what I call 'quality of life' improvement," said Gene Frantz, Texas Instruments' principal fellow.

He's not kidding.

The anti-blemish feature was made possible by combining an image sensor and DSP inside a mobile phone. The sensor captures an image of the face and the DSP processes the image data and generates "appropriate information."

An unnamed software developer is working on a skin analysis algorithm to detect and predict incipient blemishes. Frantz, attending Electronica 2006 here this week, said, "I just had a dinner with him last night. There are crazies out there who are developing [applications] we've never imagined or thought possible before."

Mobile phone pimple detectors represent just one example of how sensor data can be processed by an embedded sensor to generate information. Citing increasingly sophisticated signal processing capabilities, Frantz said he foresees an era in which "traditional A-to-D [analog-to-digital] conversion is now shifting to A-to-I [analog-to-information] conversion."

"The end game I envision is a small module integrated with a sensor, DSP to convert picture to information, RF to transmit information and power supply." Twenty such sensors could be positioned around a house to build a surveillance system, he said.

In this scenario, there's enough signal processing power to generate only "appropriate information," Frantz said. For example, a surveillance system would ignore the routine but spring into action to transmit images of an intruder entering through a window. This is possible, said Frantz, "without users having to become IT experts."

Frantz acknowledged there is a "human acceptance" issue when surveillance is involved. "The society needs to accept it, and historically, a lot of new technologies won't get immediately accepted."

Another issue is affordability. Installing seven cameras and building an intelligent system for information analysis and feedback remains expensive, said Frantz. TI's DSP-only DaVinci is touted as the first step toward cutting costs, turning a DSP embedded in a camera module into a "smart endpoint," Frantz said.

4 September 2006
Medical Technology Busniess Europe

Touch-free life-sign monitoring by videocamera

CNOGA Inc. has developed contact-free physiological monitoring by using a simple video camera. The new technology can detect a person’s pulse rate, blood pressure, blood O2, CO2 and more from a distance by focusing on the patient’s skin.

The new technology opens vast applications for remote patient monitoring and diagnostics applications. CNOGA is developing a line of monitoring devices for professional and home use and is planning to receive regulatory approval during 2007.

CNOGA technology is based on novel bio chrominance information processing acquired from the video camera image sensor. The company says the technology can go beyond monitoring basic life-signs and detect the development of disease-specific bio-markers for heart failure, COPD, cancer, renal diseases, liver disease and more.

The new remote sensing technology will enable the identification of early development of diseases and change in status of chronically ill patients, as well as emotional and physiological stress levels.

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September 1 2006

View Texas Instrument article in Fortune Magazine exampling CNOGA technology breakthrough.
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October 12, 2005

NON INVASIVE GLUCOSE MONITORING

CNOGA achieved breakthrough in noninvasive blood sugar monitoring technology, based on CNOGA revolutionary concept of touch free and non invasive physiological measurements.

The prototype was tested on random local test group and provided robust results. FDA clearance and mass production is planning to initiate in 2006

What the skin color can tell us?
Press release from CNOGA Medical & Cosmetics:

Israel 11 April 2005

Have you noticed that the skin wave color distribution does not distinguish between human races. After all, we all have RED BLOOD.

Human body is a holistic (complete) organism. Any change in human condition is reflected in all body cells including skin cells.

Did you know that biophysical changes such as pH, blood pressure, glucose, oxygen, carbon dioxide, etc. can be characterized by wave distribution equations of cells color change?


The Discovery

Video image carries significant information about the human physiology condition and body metabolic processes.

Skin pH, blood oxygen, CO2, etc. are detected by CNOGA revolutionary image processing technique.

CNOGA cosmetic imaging technology enables the video monitoring of skin conditions enhancing skin care and makeup.


The billion dollar question:

Can the Blood glucose be detected from the skin cells wave distribution of spatial temporal digital video?


Tune-in for the CNOGA answers…

CNOGA Medical announces a new standard of remote contact-free vital-sign monitoring for home patient care and clinical applications.

C NOGA Research institute announces the opening of undergraduate project and graduate student research programs.