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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2022
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Xinru Cui, Beijing, CN;
Faiz Feisal Sherman, Mason, OH (US);
Xiaole Mao, Mason, OH (US);
Reiner Engelmohr, Egelsbach, DE;
Christian Peter Mandl, Bad Soden, DE;
Jonathan Livingston Joyce, Crestview Hills, KY (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a dental appliance by providing a dental appliance including at least one motion sensor that provides motion data, the motion sensor is one of an orientation sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an inertial sensor. Further, providing at least one camera associated with the dental appliance that provides image data, and segmenting the image data received from the camera to segment a surface condition using a first machine learning neural network to generate a surface condition segmentation. Then classifying the motion data received from the motion sensor and the image data received from the camera to classify motion and position of the dental appliance with respect to a surface of a user's anatomy, using a second machine learning neural network classifier to generate a surface position comprising at least one of a relational motion classification or a relational position classification. Finally, generating user treatment progress condition and position based on the surface condition and surface position; and communicating the treatment progress condition and position to the user.