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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2020
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Chad C. Brown, Cary, NC (US);
Yun Gao, Cary, NC (US);
Pavel Agniashvili, Moscow, RU;
Avraham Zulti, Modiin, IL;
Jonathan Coslovsky, Rehovot, IL;
Christopher E. Cramer, Durham, NC (US);
Roman Gudchenko, Moscow, RU;
Ofer Saphier, Rehovot, IL;
Adi Levin, Nes Tziona, IL;
Maayan Moshe, Ramat HaSharon, IL;
Doron Malka, Tel Aviv, IL;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses (including systems and devices) for modifying a three-dimensional (3D) model of a subject's oral cavity to determine individual components such as teeth, gingiva, tongue, palate, etc. In some implementations one or more automated machine learning agents may modify one or more subsets of 3D models of the subject's oral cavity using height map data to identify, segment and/or modify to mesh regions of a 3D model constructed from a plurality of 2D images of the subject's dental cavity.