Abstract:
A method of making a dental restoration has the steps of capturing an image of a tooth, posterizing the image, determining a tooth color structure, providing information about a multicolored block having a block color structure, matching the tooth color structure and the block color structure, based on the matching, determining a position within the block in which the tooth color structure and the block color structure match, and machining the dental restoration from the block at the determined position. The invention helps facilitating the making of dental restorations at maximized aesthetics.
Abstract:
A dental imaging and illumination device. The device has an optical interface for emitting light from the device and for receiving light into the device. The device has a light source, a camera, a beam splitter and a color reference. The color reference and the light source are optically coupled via an optical path so that the light source can illuminate the color reference. This optical path bypasses the beam splitter. The device facilitates color measuring particularly in the field of dentistry.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a scanner system and a method for recording surface geometry and surface color of an object where both surface geometry information and surface color information for a block of said image sensor pixels at least partly from one 2D image recorded by said color image sensor.
Abstract:
A contactless dental device 2 for determining tooth colors includes illuminating means for illuminating with ambient illumination light a tooth 6 to be examined. At least one color sensor 8 for acquisition and spectral examination of light reflected by the tooth 6 is inventively provided, wherein filtering means 16 are associated with the color sensor for at least partial separation of a signal component originating from the illumination light from the signal component originating from the ambient light. Evaluating means 18 for determining the tooth color based on the signal component originating from the illumination light are disposed downstream of the filtering means 16.
Abstract:
Color measuring systems and methods such as for determining the color or other characteristics of teeth are disclosed. Perimeter receiver fiber optics are spaced apart from a central source fiber optic and receive light reflected from the surface of the object/tooth being measured. Light from the perimeter fiber optics pass to a variety of filters. The system utilizes the perimeter receiver fiber optics to determine information regarding the height and angle of the probe with respect to the object/tooth being measured. Under processor control, the color measurement may be made at a predetermined height and angle. Various color spectral photometer arrangements are disclosed. Translucency, fluorescence and/or surface texture data also may be obtained. Audio feedback may be provided to guide operator use of the system. The probe may have a removable or shielded tip for contamination prevention. A method of producing dental prostheses based on measured data also is disclosed. Measured data also may be stored and/or organized is part of a patient data base.
Abstract:
An image processor performing image processing for reproducing the skin color of an object easily on a screen without being affected by variation in surrounding environment. The image processor (3) comprises a living body color information acquiring section (9) for acquiring color data in the white region of a living body from image data obtained by photographing the living body as an object, and a data processing section (10) performing white balance adjustment of the photographed image data based on the color data acquired at the living body color information acquiring section.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a device and a method for optical 3D measurement, wherein the device can be shifted between a first mode for optical 3D measurement using a chromatic confocal measurement method or the triangulation measurement method and a second mode for color measurement. In the first mode, a broadband illuminating beam is focused on a first plane and in the second mode the broadband illuminating beam is focused onto a second plane outside the first plane at a distance d from the surface of the measured object.