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US 2026/0076529 A1Published application
Augmented reality display for a dental tool
AssigneeONVI, Inc.
InventorCraig Kohler
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Abstract
A dental tool system includes a dental tool having a camera, a UV light, and a working implement. The system also includes associated software that receives a video of the user's teeth captured by the dental tool camera, analyzes the video to determine a quantity of plaque on the plurality of teeth, superimposes icons at unclean locations so the icons are visible to the user in a substantially real-time display of the user's teeth and removes the icons after the user sufficiently brushes the unclean locations.
Claims20
A method for augmenting video from a dental tool, the method comprising:
- receiving a video of a plurality of teeth, the video captured by a dental tool comprising a camera and a cleaning implement;
- causing the video to be output to a display visible to a user of the dental tool substantially in real time;
- analyzing the video to determine a quantity of plaque at a plurality of locations on the plurality of teeth;
- determining, at a first time, that the quantity of plaque exceeds a threshold for an unclean location of the plurality of locations;
- superimposing a respective icon in the video at the unclean location such that the respective icon is visible to the user when the unclean location is visible to the user in the substantially real-time output;
- and
- determining, at a second time, that the quantity of plaque at the unclean location no longer exceeds the threshold and, in response, removing the icon from the superimposed video.
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A dental tool system, comprising:
- a dental tool comprising:
- a camera;
- a UV light;
- and
- a working implement;
- and
- a non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
- instructing a user, via a display, to irradiate the user's teeth using the UV light;
- receiving a video of a plurality of teeth, the video captured by the dental tool camera;
- causing the video to be output to a display visible to a user of the dental tool substantially in real time;
- analyzing the video to determine a quantity of plaque at a plurality of locations on the plurality of teeth;
- determining, at a first time, that the quantity of plaque exceeds a threshold for an unclean location of the plurality of locations;
- superimposing a respective icon in the video at the unclean location such that the respective icon is visible to the user when the unclean location is visible to the user in the substantially real-time output;
- and
- determining, at a second time, that the quantity of plaque at the unclean location no longer exceeds the threshold and, in response, removing the icon from the superimposed video.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a video of a user's mouth, the video captured by a dental tool comprising a camera and a cleaning implement;
- causing the video to be output to a display visible to a user of the dental tool substantially in real time;
- analyzing the video to:
- determine a quantity of plaque at a first plurality of locations on a plurality of teeth in the mouth;
- and
- determine a color of gum tissue at a second plurality of locations in the mouth;
- superimposing a respective icon in the video based on the determined quantity of plaque at an unclean location of the first plurality of locations such that the respective icon is visible to the user when the unclean location is visible to the user in the substantially real-time output;
- and
- determining that the color of gum tissue deviates from a previous color of the user's gum tissue by more than a threshold amount and, in response, outputting an indication of potential gum disease to the user on the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.