US Patent 8094186 Skin condition diagnosis system and beauty counseling system

A data collection system is connected to a data analysis system that carries out analysis processing based on data collected by the data collection system via communication. The data collection system includes collection-side communication, image capturing for capturing an ultra-high resolution digital image that allows an analysis of a skin texture condition, collection-side image data compression for compressing image data by a high compression method with block noises suppressed, and collection-side data display. The data analysis system includes analysis side communication, data analysis for analyzing image data, and analysis-side data compression for compressing the data by a high compression method with block noises suppressed.