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- Patent Title: Dental colorimetry apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 牙科比色仪
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Application No.: US12491600Application Date: 2009-06-25
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Publication No.: US08036339B2Publication Date: 2011-10-11
- Inventor: Yasuto Ikeda
- Applicant: Yasuto Ikeda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.
- Priority: JP2008-171438 20080630; JP2009-132244 20090601
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
A dental colorimetry apparatus that allows the color balance of an entire row of teeth to be checked is provided. The invention provides a dental colorimetry apparatus 2 including a multiband-image storing section 21 storing images of teeth in association with information about the positions of the teeth in row of teeth; a contour-line extracting section 25 for extracting contour lines of the teeth from the images of the teeth; a rectangle-setting section 27 for setting rectangles in the images of the teeth so as to include the contour lines extracted by the contour-line extracting section 25 and so as to circumscribe at least both sides of the teeth; and an image-generating section 29 for generating a row-of-teeth image by arranging the images of the teeth based on the information about the positions of the teeth in the row of teeth so that the rectangles adjoin each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090322868A1 DENTAL COLORIMETRY APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-12-31
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