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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2005
Duane Durbin, San Diego, CA (US);
Dennis Durbin, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Arun Dalmia, Ada, MI (US);
Ed Childers, San Diego, CA (US);
Duane Durbin, San Diego, CA (US);
Dennis Durbin, Solana Beach, CA (US);
Arun Dalmia, Ada, MI (US);
Ed Childers, San Diego, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Systems and methods for optically imaging a dental structure within an oral cavity by moving one or more image apertures on an arm coupled to a fixed coordinate reference frame external to the oral cavity; determining the position of the one or more image apertures using the fixed external coordinate reference frame; capturing one or more images of the dental structure through one or more of the image apertures; and generating a 3D model of the dental structure based on the captured images.