US 12,329,596 B2
Dental treatment assistance device, dental treatment assistance system, dental treatment assistance method, dental treatment assistance program, and dental product sales promotion device
Naofumi Murata, Chiyoda-ku (JP); and Satoshi Yamaguchi, Chiyoda-ku (JP)
Assigned to KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC., Kurashiki (JP)
Appl. No. 17/284,294
Filed by KURARAY NORITAKE DENTAL INC., Kurashiki (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 10, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/039984
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 9, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/075796, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-192868 (JP), filed on Oct. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0338400 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61C 19/00 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/60 (2018.01)
CPC A61C 19/00 (2013.01) [G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 40/60 (2018.01); G06T 2207/30036 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A dental treatment assistance device, comprising:
a display;
an input part into which input information on at least one of a use purpose and a use product is input, the input part being configured for inputting a character, a number, and/or an instruction, by dental personnel;
a memory that stores product information and process procedure information for a purpose of each product of a plurality of products;
a product information acquiring part that acquires the product information and the process procedure information corresponding to the input information input from the input part;
an information processor comprising a learning part having an artificial intelligence;
a display image control part that displays a predetermined process procedure selected from the process procedure information on the display, the information comprising instructions on a first use for a first product or for a second use instruction of a second product, the second product having the same purpose as the first product, to apprise a dentist and a dental hygienist of a procedure of the first use of the first product, a second use of the first product, and a more appropriate second product for the same purpose;
a photographing part that photographs an oral cavity of a person to be treated including a treatment target;
a process procedure control part that stores an association between a photographed image by the photographing part and an assistance result in memory; and
a photographed image analyzer that analyzes the photographed image from a photographed image accruing part to detect a treatment target that comprises at least one selected from a dental caries, a cavity, and a root canal,
wherein the assistance result comprises the input information, the product information, the process procedure, and a performance result of the process procedure, and
wherein the photographed image analyzer analyzes the photographed image to thereby identify a treatment by a dentist based on an analysis result and the input information,
wherein the information of a detected treatment target and the information of a recognized treatment are sent to the process procedure control part,
wherein the information processor is configured to perform a more detailed advanced treatment assistance based on the information analyzed by the photographed image analyzer and previously stored teaching data,
wherein the photographed image analyzer identifies the treatment target by the image analysis, and inputs a feature amount and the input information of the treatment target to the learning part,
wherein the learning part uses, as teaching data, data in which the feature amount presenting the dental caries, cavity, and/or root canal, of various conditions which require a treatment is associated with an actual treatment, process, and the product information to be used, to the dental caries, the cavity, the root canal.