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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
May. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shiho Hakomori, Kanagawa, JP;
Koshi Tamamura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/103 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0088 (2013.01); A61B 5/0013 (2013.01); A61B 5/0071 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); A61B 5/1032 (2013.01); A61B 2576/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A dental apparatus includes a light irradiation unit for emitting a light to irradiate an oral cavity, an image capturing unit for image-capturing the oral cavity light irradiated by the light irradiation unit, and an output unit for outputting data for highlighting and displaying at least one of a plaque site and a calculus site on an image of the oral cavity based on an image captured result by the image capturing unit.