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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2021
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Ya Xue, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Yingjie Li, Cary, NC (US);
Chao Shi, Morrisville, NC (US);
Aleksandr Anikin, Moscow, RU;
Mikhail Toporkov, Kolomna, RU;
Aleksandr Sergeevich Karsakov, Moscow, RU;
Align Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving an image of a face of a patient, the image including a depiction of teeth; processing the image of the face using one or more trained machine learning model, wherein the one or more trained machine learning model outputs a pixel-level classification of pixels in the image, the pixel level classification comprising a first set of pixels classified as being inside of a bounding shape that bounds a first plurality of teeth depicted in the image and a second set of pixels classified as being outside of the first bounding shape; cropping the image of the face of the patient, wherein the cropped image comprises depictions of the first plurality of teeth; and performing one or more operations on the cropped image of the face of the patient.