Oral hygiene systems and methods
AssigneeColgate-Palmolive Company
InventorsThomas Serval, Yann Nicolas
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Abstract
A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen includes displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user. The method also includes overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation. Responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a predetermined amount of time, the indicium is removed from the display device.
Claims20
A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen, the method comprising:
- displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user;
- overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation;
- and
- responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a period of time and that the movement of the head of the oral hygiene device corresponds to a predetermined brush stroke during at least a portion of the period of time, causing the indicium to be removed from the first section of the representation;
- wherein the step of causing the indicium to be removed comprises displaying a removal image, the removal image displayed subsequent to positioning the head of the oral hygiene device adjacent the first section of the set of teeth and removed substantially simultaneously with the removal of the indicium;
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- wherein the predetermined brush stroke is selected from a plurality of predetermined brush stroke types.
An oral hygiene system, the system comprising:
- an oral hygiene device including a handle and a head;
- a sensor;
- a display device;
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory device storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors cause the oral hygiene system to,
- display, on the display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user;
- overlay an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation;
- responsive to a determination, via at least one of the one or more processors, that the head of the oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a period of time and that the movement of the head of the oral hygiene device corresponds to one of a plurality of predetermined brush stroke types during at least a portion of the period of time, causing the indicium to be removed from the first section of the representation and to be associated with a second section of the representation;
- wherein causing the indicium to be removed comprises displaying a removal image, the removal image displayed subsequent to positioning the head of the oral hygiene device adjacent the first section of the set of teeth and removed substantially simultaneously with the removal of the indicium.
A method for promoting compliance with an oral hygiene regimen, the method comprising:
- displaying, on a display device, a representation of at least a portion of a set of teeth of a user;
- overlaying an indicium on the representation such that the indicium is associated with a first section of the representation;
- responsive to a determination, via at least one of one or more processors, that a head of an oral hygiene device is positioned directly adjacent to a first section of the set of teeth that corresponds to the first section of the representation for at least a period of time and that the movement of the head of the oral hygiene device corresponds to one of a plurality of predetermined brush stroke types during at least a portion of the period of time, causing the indicium to be removed from the first section of the representation;
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- capturing an image of the user via a camera, the image comprising an augmented reality image overlaid on at least a portion of the user;
- wherein causing the indicium to be removed comprises displaying a removal image, the removal image displayed subsequent to positioning the head of the oral hygiene device adjacent the first section of the set of teeth and removed substantially simultaneously with the removal of the indicium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.