Virtual dental game
AssigneeCadent Ltd.
InventorEldad Taub
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a computer game, which, when operating on a computer enables a user, via a user's interface, to perform one or more tasks within a virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising a virtual three dimensional dental image of at least one tooth and the tasks performed by the user leading to the improvement of a certain virtual condition associated with said at least one tooth. The three dimensional dental image employed in the computer game is preferably based on or derived from a real life dental environment. The invention further relates to a storage medium for storing data representation of the above computer game and to a method of playing the computer game of the present invention using a computer.
Claims27
For use in a computer and associated storage medium, a computer game customized for a predetermined user, in which the user, through a user interface, performs one or more tasks generated by the computer within a virtual environment, said environment comprising a virtual three-dimensional dental image of at least one tooth of the user;
- wherein said one or more tasks comprise at least one of choosing and carrying out a virtual treatment to a certain virtual condition associated with said at least one tooth, determining whether the condition of the teeth is satisfactory,
- wherein said condition is a disorder in or lack of structural integrity of one or more teeth, and said one or more tasks comprise improving or fixing said disorder or lack of structural integrity;
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- wherein said disorder or lack of structural integrity comprises damage resulting from one or more virtual infectious agents and said one or more tasks comprise elimination of said agents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.