Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated, generation of dental features in digital models
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Application No.: US17124366Application Date: 2020-12-16
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Publication No.: US12062180B2Publication Date: 2024-08-13
- Inventor: Assaf Weiss , Maxim Volgin , Pavel Agniashvili , Chad Clayton Brown , Alexander Raskhodchikov , Avi Kopelman , Michael Sabina , Moti Ben-Dov , Shai Farkash , Igor Makiewsky , Maayan Moshe , Ofer Saphier
- Applicant: Align Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; A61C13/00 ; A61C13/34 ; G06N3/047 ; G06N3/08 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T7/12 ; G16H30/40

Abstract:
In embodiments, a processing device generates a three-dimensional model of a dental site from scan data, the three-dimensional model comprising a representation of a tooth, wherein a portion of the three-dimensional model comprises an interfering surface that obscures a portion of the tooth. The processing device receives or generates an image of the tooth, wherein the image depicts the interfering surface. The processing device processes the image to generate a modified image, wherein the portion of the tooth that was obscured by the interfering surface in the image is shown in the modified image. The processing device updates the three-dimensional model of the dental site by replacing, using the modified image, the portion of the three-dimensional model that comprises the interfering surface that obscures the portion of the tooth, wherein the portion of the tooth that was obscured in the three-dimensional model is shown in an updated three-dimensional model.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210100643A1 AUTOMATED DETECTION, GENERATION AND/OR CORRECTION OF DENTAL FEATURES IN DIGITAL MODELS Public/Granted day:2021-04-08
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