US 12,079,944 B2
System for viewing of dental treatment outcomes
Pavel Pokotilov, Severnoye Chertanovo (RU); Anton Lapshin, Nizhniy Novgorod (RU); Evgeniy Malashkin, Moscow (RU); Sergei Ozerov, Yerevan (AM); Yury Slynko, Moscow (RU); Andrey Sergeevich Nekrasov, Moscow (RU); Leonid Vyacheslavovich Grechishnikov, Moscow (RU); Anna Orlova, Moscow (RU); Yingjie Li, Cary, NC (US); Phillip Thomas Harris, Cary, NC (US); and Maurice K. Carrier, Durham, NC (US)
Assigned to Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/325,922.
Application 18/325,922 is a continuation of application No. 17/244,837, filed on Apr. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,704,876.
Application 17/244,837 is a continuation of application No. 16/940,303, filed on Jul. 27, 2020, granted, now 10,997,792, issued on May 4, 2021.
Application 16/940,303 is a continuation of application No. 16/583,058, filed on Sep. 25, 2019, granted, now 10,733,805, issued on Aug. 4, 2020.
Application 16/583,058 is a continuation of application No. 15/841,212, filed on Dec. 13, 2017, granted, now 10,467,815, issued on Nov. 5, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/568,220, filed on Oct. 4, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/435,569, filed on Dec. 16, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0368479 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61C 7/00 (2006.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 90/50 (2016.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [A61B 34/10 (2016.02); A61B 90/36 (2016.02); A61C 7/002 (2013.01); A61C 9/008 (2013.01); G02B 27/0093 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06V 40/168 (2022.01); A61B 2017/00216 (2013.01); A61B 2034/105 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2048 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2065 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3612 (2016.02); A61B 2090/365 (2016.02); A61B 2090/371 (2016.02); A61B 2090/372 (2016.02); A61B 2090/502 (2016.02); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0141 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0181 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
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1. A mobile computing device comprising:
a display;
an image capture device, the image capture device to generate image data of a face of a viewer of the display; and
a processing device, the processing device to:
send the image data to a computing device configured to process the image data to identify a position of a dental arch in the image data, determine a treatment outcome for the dental arch, generate a post-treatment image of the dental arch that shows the treatment outcome, and generate updated image data comprising a superimposition of the post-treatment image of the dental arch over the image data depicting the face of the viewer, wherein the post-treatment image of the dental arch is positioned over the image data using the identified position of the dental arch;
receive the updated image data; and
output the updated image data to the display, wherein the post-treatment image of the dental arch is superimposed over the dental arch in the image data such that the post-treatment image is visible in the display rather than a true depiction of the dental arch, wherein a remainder of the face from the image data that is not covered by the post-treatment image of the dental arch is visible in the display.