VISUALIZATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ACQUISITION

• Main Authors: WEEKS, Steven, J, HART, Douglas, P, BOERJES, Joseph, KRIVESHKO, Ilya, A, ROSENBLOOM, Micah, J, TEKEIAN, Edward, K, ROHALY, Janos, PALEY, Eric, B, ALTOBELLI, David, E
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 28.02.2018
• Subjects: APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DENTISTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICS

The present invention relates to a method comprising acquiring two dimensional data from one or more intraoral structures of a dental patient at a video rate, reconstructing a digital surface representation of the one or more intraoral structures, displaying the digital surface representation at the video rate, acquiring additional two-dimensional data from the one or more intraoral structures in a subsequent frame of data at the video rate, reconstructing a subsequent digital surface representation from the additional two-dimensional data at the video rate combining the digital surface representation and the subsequent digital surface representation at the video rate to provide a three-dimensional representation of the one or more intraoral structures, providing a visual display of the three-dimensional representation at the video rate in real time, and providing a visualization within the visual display, the visualization updated at the video rate to identify regions of inaccurate scan data within the three-dimensional representation.