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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2020
Applicant:
University of Leeds, Leeds, GB;
Inventor:
Andrew James Keeling, Leeds, GB;
Assignee:
University of Leeds, Leeds, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/579 (2017.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61C 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/521 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61C 9/006 (2013.01); A61B 5/0088 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/521 (2017.01); G06T 7/579 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30036 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30244 (2013.01); G06T 2210/36 (2013.01);
Abstract
A three-dimensional (3D) dental scanning system () for scanning a dental object (D) includes a scanning surface () to support the dental object (D); a scanning section () to capture a 3D scan of the dental object (D); a motion section () to move the scanning surface () and scanning section () relative to each other in five axes of motion, whilst retaining the scanning surface () in a substantially horizontal plane, and a control unit () configured to control the motion section () and the scanning section () to obtain a 3D scan of the dental object (D).