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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2018
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Pavel Pokotilov, Moscow, RU;
Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Moscow, RU;
Dmitriy Konstantinovich Ten, Novosibirsk, RU;
Samuel Blanco, Saratoga, CA (US);
David Patrick Lopes, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Jason Ramos, Heredia, CR;
Rene M. Sterental, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Evgenii Vladimirovich Karnygin, Moscow, RU;
Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Engels, RU;
Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Moscow, RU;
Yury A. Brailov, Moscow, RU;
Artem Kuanbekov, Moscow, RU;
ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may include: receiving an image of a mouth region of a patient's face; extracting teeth contours within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face; locating a mouth opening within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face; extracting the tooth contours from a 3D model of the patient's teeth; and aligning the tooth contours from the 3D model with the tooth contours of the teeth within the image of the mouth region of the patient's face.