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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2016
3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Guruprasad Somasundaram, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Evan J. Ribnick, St. Louis Park, MN (US);
Matthew R. Cruikshank, St. Paul, MN (US);
Lindsay Labahn, St. Paul, MN (US);
Judy J. Ma, Woodbury, MN (US);
3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for displaying synchronized views and animations of digital 3D models of a person's intra-oral structure such as teeth. Two digital 3D models obtained from scans at different times are displayed in side-by-side views and synchronized via registration of the two scans or corresponding models. A user's control input to one displayed model causes the same manipulation of both models since they are registered. The two digital 3D models can also be displayed in an animation mode where the first model slowly morphs into the second model to illustrate changes in the intra-oral structure over time.