US 12,133,783 B2
Rendering of post treatment smile image
Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Moscow (RU); Samuel Blanco, Saratoga, CA (US); Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Dolgoprudniy (RU); Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Moscow (RU); Chad Clayton Brown, Cary, NC (US); and Christopher E. Cramer, Durham, NC (US)
Assigned to Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on May 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/142,545.
Application 18/142,545 is a continuation of application No. 17/339,766, filed on Jun. 4, 2021, granted, now 11,672,629.
Application 17/339,766 is a continuation of application No. 16/417,354, filed on May 20, 2019, granted, now 11,026,766, issued on Jun. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/674,524, filed on May 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0414322 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61C 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/70 (2024.01); G06T 15/83 (2011.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01); H04N 1/64 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 7/002 (2013.01) [G06T 5/70 (2024.01); G06T 15/83 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); H04N 1/3871 (2013.01); H04N 1/646 (2013.01); A61C 2203/00 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2012 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
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23. A method comprising:
receiving a facial image comprising a two-dimensional (2D) depiction of a person's teeth at a first arrangement;
receiving a tooth model comprising a three-dimensional (3D) depiction of the person's teeth at a second arrangement;
obtaining color information from the facial image, wherein the color information represents a color scheme of the person's teeth at the first arrangement;
coding one or more channels for a plurality of pixels of a 2D rendering of the tooth model with structural attributes of the 3D depiction; and
generating a photo-realistic 2D depiction of the person's teeth at the second arrangement using a result of coding the one or more channels for the plurality of pixels of the 2D rendering and the color information obtained from the facial image.