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US 9,775,504 B1Granted
Controlling an intraoral mirror with an integrated camera, and applications thereof
AssigneeDental SmartMirror, Inc.
InventorsGidon Oded Elazar, Dan Zidkiahu Harkabi, Joshua Israel Wachspress
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Abstract
Disclosed embodiments integrate a camera into an intraoral mirror. Integrating a camera into an intraoral mirror provides an efficient way to record and display what is visible to the healthcare provider in the mirror.
Claims18
A method for capturing photographs in a patient's mouth, comprising:
- (a) receiving an image captured from an image sensor affixed to a dental mirror, the dental mirror having a plurality of light sources;
- (b) determining a portion of the image to be darker than another portion of the image;
- (c) selecting, based on which portion was determined in (b) to be darker, a light source from the plurality of light sources such that the light source is selected to illuminate the determined portion more brightly than the other portion;
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- (d) increasing a brightness of the light source selected in (c).
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A program storage device tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by at least one machine to perform a method for capturing photographs in a patient's mouth, comprising:
- (a) receiving an image captured from an image sensor affixed to a dental mirror, the dental mirror having a plurality of light sources;
- (b) determining a portion of the image to be darker than another portion of the image;
- (c) selecting, based on which portion was determined in (b) to be darker, a light source from the plurality of light sources such that the light source is selected to illuminate the determined portion more brightly than the other portion;
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- (d) increasing a brightness of the light source selected in (c).
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A device for capturing photographs in a patient's mouth, comprising:
- a dental mirror having a plurality of light sources;
- an image sensor, affixed to the dental mirror, that captures an image;
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- an illumination control module that (i) determines a portion of the image to be brighter than another portion of the image, (ii) selects, based on which portion was determined in (i) to be brighter, a light source from the plurality of light sources such that the light source is selected to illuminate the determined portion less brightly than the other portion, and (iii) decreases a brightness of the light source selected in (ii).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.