Intraoral scanner with an antenna

Abstract

Embodiments can relate to an intraoral scanner including a projector unit configured to emit light at least onto a dental object of a patient, and an image sensor configured to acquire reflected light from at least the dental object. The scanner includes a wireless interface configured to communicate with an external device, where the communication may include 2D image data and/or 3D image data processed or raw. The scanner includes a housing accommodating the projector unit and the image sensor, and wherein the housing includes a first end and a second end, and the projector unit and the image sensor are arranged closer to the first end, and an antenna of the wireless interface is arranged closer to the second end, and wherein during a scan of an oral cavity the first end is located inside the oral cavity and the second end is not located within the oral cavity.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.