Facilitating attachment placement on dental site

Organization Name

Align Technology, Inc.

Inventor(s)

Avi Kopelman of Palo Alto CA US

Adi Levin of Nes Tziona IL

Eric Paul Meyer of Zürich CH

Elad Zeiri of Petach Tikva IL

Amir Ashkenazi of Kiriat Ono IL

Ron Ganot of Yad Rambam IL

Sergei Ozerov of Yerevan AM

Inna Karapetyan of Modiin IL

Facilitating attachment placement on dental site

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250090284 titled 'Facilitating attachment placement on dental site

Original Abstract Submitted

a system comprises an image capture device, an augmented reality (ar) display to display, and a processing device. the processing deice receives image data of a dental arch from the image capture device and processes the image data using a plurality of detection rules, where each detection rule detects one or more dental conditions. the processing device determines a dental condition for the dental arch based on the processing, determines a position of an area of interest on the dental arch, wherein the area of interest is associated with the dental condition, generates a visual overlay comprising an indication of the dental condition at the position of the area of interest, and outputs the visual overlay to the ar display, wherein the visual overlay is superimposed over a view of the dental arch on the ar display at the position of the area of interest.