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US 10,473,942 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for image capture of medical or dental images using a head mounted camera and computer system
OwnerMarc Lemcheninventor
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Abstract
A head mounted magnifying camera is communicated with a computer system with a head-mounted display having a center of a field of view. A magnified view of a live dental area of interest is provided, image capture of the live dental area of interest is performed and downloaded into the computer system, or an image of a stored dental area of interest is uploaded from the computer system and matched to the live dental area of interest. The image of the live dental area of interest is automatically tracked in the computer system, and the image of the live dental area of interest is kept in the center of the field of view of the head-mounted display.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- providing a live view image of a dental area of interest using a head mounted imaging device subject to head movements of a predetermined amount or less;
- displaying the live image of the dental area of interest on a head-mounted display having a center of a field of view;
- actuating a first image capture of the dental area of interest subject to movement and downloading the first captured image of the dental area of interest into the a computer system communicated to the head mounted imaging device, or uploading a first image of a stored dental area of interest from the computer system;
- actuating a second image capture of the dental area of interest subject to movement and downloading the second captured image of the dental area of interest into the computer system communicated to the head mounted imaging device;
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- performing pattern recognition on the live image of the dental area of interest to keep the live image of the dental area of interest in the center or a selected position of the field of view of the head-mounted display notwithstanding movements of the head mounted imaging device of a predetermined amount or less and notwithstanding movements of the live image of the dental area of interest, where performing pattern recognition comprises:
- automatically tracking the live image of the dental area of interest in the computer system by comparing the live image of the dental area of interest with the first captured image of the dental area of interest in real time;
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- automatically tracking the live image of the dental area of interest in the computer system by comparing the live image of the dental area of interest with the second captured image of the dental area of interest in real time if the live image of the dental area of interest has exceeded a field of view of the first captured image of the dental area of interest.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a computer system with a memory;
- a head mounted imaging device communicated with the computer system, the head mounted imaging device subject to head movements of a predetermined amount or smaller;
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- a head-mounted display having a center of a field of view subject to movement and communicated with the computer system,
- where the head mounted imaging device is configured to capture a first image of a dental area of interest and store it within the memory of the computer system,
- where the imaging device is configured to capture a second image of a dental area of interest and store it within the memory of the computer system, and
- where the computer system comprises pattern recognition means to automatically track a live image of the dental area of interest provided by the imaging device to keep it in the center of or a selected position in the field of view of the head-mounted display, the pattern recognition means comprising:
- means to compare the live image of the dental area of interest with the captured first image of the dental area of interest in real time;
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- means to compare the live image of the dental area of interest with the captured second image of the dental area of interest if the live image of the dental area of interest has exceeded a field of view of the first captured image of the dental area of interest.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.