Automated 2D/3D integration and lip spline autoplacement

• Main Authors: Vysokanov, Boris Aleksandrovich, Ten, Dmitriy Konstantinovich, Karnygin, Evgenii Vladimirovich, Kuanbekov, Artem, Miryaha, Vladislav Andreevich, Ramos, Jason, Sterental, Rene M, Pokotilov, Pavel, Lopes, David Patrick, Chekh, Dmitry Yurievich, Blanco, Samuel, Brailov, Yury A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.08.2023
• Subjects: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OFTHREE-DIMENSIONAL [3-D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVEAGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3-D PRINTING,STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR ORAL OR DENTAL HYGIENE; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DENTISTRY; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; TRANSPORTING

A method may include: receiving an image of a mouth region of a patient's face; extracting teeth contours within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face; locating a mouth opening within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face; extracting the tooth contours from a 3D model of the patient's teeth; and aligning the tooth contours from the 3D model with the tooth contours of the teeth within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face.