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US 2012/0056993 A1Published application
Dental Field Visualization System with Improved Ergonomics
OwnerSalman Luqman, Shahin Kharrazi +1inventors
InventorsSalman Luqman, Shahin Kharrazi, Mirza M. Luqman
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Abstract
A dentist's field visualization system for acquiring, processing and displaying images and full-motion video from an intraoral camera on a heads-up display.
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A system comprising:
- an intraoral camera to acquire an image from a patient's mouth;
- image processing means to receive and adjust the image;
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- a heads-up display to present the adjusted image to a user.
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A system comprising:
- an intraoral camera for acquiring a series of images of an interior of a patient's mouth;
- an image processor to perform at least one of a scaling operation, a contrast-changing operation or a rotation operation on each image of the series of images to produce a modified series of images;
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- a heads-up display to present the modified series of images.
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A system comprising:
- an intraoral camera including a variable-magnification optical system, a light source and a control input device;
- a heads-up display (“HUD”) including two independent display screens, each capable of displaying a color image at 1024 by 768 pixel resolution, said HUD configured to be worn similarly to eyeglasses;
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- a programmable computer coupled to the intraoral camera and to the heads-up display, said programmable computer containing instructions to cause the computer to acquire an image from the intraoral camera, adjust the image according to the control input device, and cause the image to be displayed on the independent display screens of the HUD.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.