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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2015
Applicant:
Carestream Dental Technology Topco Limited, London, GB;
Inventors:
Yu Zhou, Shanghai, CN;
Qinran Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06T 7/564 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06T 7/564 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30036 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for forming a subset having a number of member 3D contour images, the method executed at least in part on a computer, selects a first 3D contour image as a member image, obtains a candidate 3D contour image, computes an overlap between the candidate 3D contour image and the first 3D contour image, and adds the candidate 3D contour image to the subset according to the overlap computation.