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US 2026/0283503 A1Published application
Three-dimensional measurements of outer ear shape
AssigneeAurality, Inc.
InventorsSigrid Smitt Goldman, Mathieu Aubailly
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Abstract
An ear scanner includes a handpiece, an earpiece extending from the handpiece, wherein the earpiece has a distal end dimensioned and shaped to occupy an ear canal, a pattern projector configured to project a light pattern from the distal end, and a plurality of wide field-of-view (WFOV) imagers configured to capture, through the distal end, one or more images enabled by the light pattern. The WFOV of each WFOV imager of the plurality of WFOV imagers overlaps another WFOV thereof.
Claims12
An ear scanner comprising:
- a handpiece;
- an earpiece extending from the handpiece, wherein the earpiece has a distal end dimensioned and shaped to occupy an ear canal;
- a pattern projector configured to project a light pattern from said distal end;
- and
- a plurality of wide field-of-view (WFOV) imagers configured to capture, through said distal end, one or more images enabled by the light pattern, wherein the WFOV of each WFOV imager of the plurality of WFOV imagers overlaps another WFOV thereof.
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A method of capturing and processing image data of a patient's ear, the method comprising:
- illuminating, via an earpiece dimensioned and shaped to occupy an ear canal of the patient's ear, a surface of the patient's ear with a light pattern;
- spatially and temporally modulating the light pattern;
- capturing a plurality of wide field-of-view (WFOV) images of the surface illuminated by the light pattern by means of a plurality of WFOV imagers wherein the WFOV of each WFOV imager of the plurality of WFOV imagers overlaps another WFOV thereof;
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- generating, by a processing unit, a three-dimensional image of said surface by combining the plurality of WFOV images based on the modulated light pattern.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.