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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2001
John P. Spoonhower, Webster, NY (US);
John R. Squilla, Rochester, NY (US);
John T. Boland, Fairport, NY (US);
John P. Spoonhower, Webster, NY (US);
John R. Squilla, Rochester, NY (US);
John T. Boland, Fairport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A portable intra-oral capture and display system includes: (a) a handpiece elongated for insertion into an oral cavity, said handpiece including a light emitter on a distal end thereof for illuminating an object in the cavity and an image sensor for capturing an image of the object and generating an image signal therefrom; (b) a portable, hand-cradled base containing in a single integral enclosure a light source for generating light, electronics for processing the image for display, a display monitor for displaying the image, a storage for storing the image, thereby providing a stored image for subsequent review and access, and an interface for transferring the stored image to a peripheral device; and (c) an optical connection for transmitting the light from the base to the light emitter in the camera, and an electrical connection for communicating the image signal from the image sensor in the camera to the processor in the base.