Prioritization of three dimensional dental elements
AssigneeAlign Technology, Inc.
InventorsEric E. Kuo, Igor Kvasov, Anna Egorova, Sergey Gagarin
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Abstract
The present disclosure includes methods, systems, and devices for prioritization of three dimensional dental elements. One method for prioritizing three dimensional dental elements includes receiving a virtual initial dental data set (IDDS) of teeth having spatial information regarding the positions of a number of teeth in the virtual IDDS with respect to each other for presentation of the teeth in a virtual three dimensional space to be viewed on a user interface, setting prioritization values of a number of elements of one or more of the number of teeth, and prioritizing the number of elements to be selected by a user based upon their prioritization values.
Claims20
A system for viewing three-dimensional (3D) dental elements, comprising:
- a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon;
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- a processor coupled to the memory to execute the computer-readable instructions to:
- receive a dental data set including spatial information regarding presentation of dental elements in a virtual 3D space to be viewed on a user interface, the dental elements including a first dental element and a second dental element;
- display the first dental element and the second dental element such that the first dental element is in front of at least a portion of the second dental element, wherein the first dental element is at least partially transparent such that the at least a portion of the second dental element is visible through the first dental element, wherein a first reference point is movable along a surface of the first dental element in preference over the second dental;
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- receive input from a user to move a second reference point, different from the first reference point, along a surface of the at least a portion of the second dental element without changing a transparency of the first dental element such that the second reference point is viewable through the first dental element.
A method of viewing three-dimensional (3D) dental elements, comprising:
- receiving a dental data set including spatial information regarding presentation of dental elements in a virtual 3D space to be viewed on a user interface, the dental elements including a first dental element and a second dental element;
- displaying the first dental element and the second dental element such that the first dental element is in front of at least a portion of the second dental element, wherein the first dental element is at least partially transparent such that the at least a portion of the second dental element is visible through the first dental element, wherein a first reference point is movable along a surface of the first dental element;
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- receiving input from a user to move a second reference point, different from the first reference point, along a surface of the at least a portion of the second dental element without changing a transparency of the first dental element such that the second reference point is viewable through the first dental element.
A system for viewing three-dimensional (3D) dental elements, comprising:
- a memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereon;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory to execute the computer-readable instructions to:
- receive a dental data set including spatial information regarding presentation of dental elements in a virtual 3D space to be viewed on a user interface, the dental elements including a first dental element and a second dental element;
- display the first dental element and the second dental element such that the first dental element is in front of at least a portion of the second dental element, the first dental element rendered with a transparency that allows at least a portion of the second dental element to be visible through the first dental element, wherein a first reference point is adhered to and movable with respect to the first dental element;
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- receive input from a user to move a second reference point along a surface of the second dental element and adhered to the second dental element without changing the transparency of the first dental element such that the second reference point is viewable through the first dental element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.