US 12,465,466 B2
Powder-free intraoral scanning and imaging system
Saradwata Sarkar, Redondo Beach, CA (US); Mark Greenwood, Granite Bay, CA (US); Mark Chang-Ming Hsieh, Peterborough (GB); and James Lee Onslow, Cambridge (GB)
Assigned to MEDIT CORP., Seoul (KR)
Filed by MEDIT CORP., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/091,456.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/294,944, filed on Dec. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0210642 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. A61C 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61C 9/006 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intraoral scanning system comprising:
a scanning device configured to illuminate an object of interest with a burst light pattern at one or more intervals and receive a set of reflected images reflected off the object of interest; and
a processing device configured to receive the set of reflected images from the scanning device and convert the set of reflected images into a three-dimensional model of the object of interest,
wherein the burst light pattern comprises a first image and a second image in succession, and
wherein one of the first image and the second image is a structured light image and the other of the first image and the second image is an unstructured light image,
wherein the structured light image is a houndstooth pattern.