Method for spatial 3D stereoscopic intraoral camera

A method for creating intraoral cavity spatial 3D images for stereoscopic rendering and display comprising the steps of:

• providing dual side-by-side camera CCD subassemblies, each subassembly having an optical path through a lens disposed to direct specified band spectrum light to a CCD;
• optically directing image light through a subassembly optical or pin hole lens, with light image disposed to impinge on the CCD by subassembly tilt or shift with respect to each other;
• converging optical paths of subassemblies to achieve stereoscopic left-right image by tilt, tilt range of between 1° to 5° off the surface mount plane, or shift, shift gap symmetrical with the duel subassembly centerline of between 0.5 mm and 5.0 mm, onto the CCDs;
• focusing the optical paths from the lens to the CCDs by including a focal gap of between 0.01 and 3.0 mm each subassembly;
• surrounding each subassembly with an array of LEDs;
• surface mounting each subassembly on a motherboard supporting electronic components for processing the daughterboard signals and LEDs;
• integrating processing electronic components to frame grab CCD signal images and synchronously output images to frame formats and
• embedding software instructions in the form of device logic stored in component memory for enabling the CCD signal image output, under control of a electronic component processor, to format the signal images for wireless transport to remote processing system for storage and display in 3D Line Sequential Left-Right Multiplexed Spatial Stereoscopic format,
• whereby spatial 3D intraoral images are converged and captured by the duel subassemblies for processing and display in stereoscopic presentation and viewing.