Dental Acquisition Kit with Morphology-Adaptive Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dental photography acquisition kits fail to ensure comfortable and high-quality image capture due to variability in mouth dimensions among users, and require compatibility with both the user's mouth and the mobile telephone's model, which is often not guaranteed.
Innovation Solution
An acquisition kit comprising a mobile telephone with an optical lens and a support that attaches to the mouth, featuring a categorization mark visible to the lens, which allows the controller to identify the user and adjust the calibration for optimal image capture, ensuring compatibility and quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a universal acquisition kit is used without adaptation to user morphology, then device complexity is reduced, but image quality and user comfort deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by providing multiple support components with different geometric parameters (sizes, shapes, contours) that correspond to different user mouth morphologies. The system selects and configures the appropriate support parameters based on the acquired user representation, thereby adapting the kit to individual users while maintaining a universal base design.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by making the kit configuration adaptive and adjustable rather than fixed. The system dynamically selects and configures support components based on real-time analysis of the user's mouth morphology from acquired images, allowing the kit to transition from a static universal design to a dynamically adapted configuration.
2Manufacturing precision
If the kit is adapted to individual user morphology, then image quality improves, but device complexity and configuration time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by enabling the user to perform the adaptation process themselves using their mobile telephone. The system automatically captures images, analyzes mouth morphology, and configures the appropriate support components without requiring professional intervention, thereby reducing the complexity burden on users while maintaining high image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining multiple support component variants with different geometric parameters that are ready for selection. The system performs preliminary analysis of the user's morphology and pre-configures the appropriate components before actual image acquisition, reducing configuration time and complexity during the actual usage phase.
3Manufacturing precision
If manual configuration is required for each user, then image quality can be optimized, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by automating the entire configuration process through the mobile telephone application. The system automatically captures mouth images, analyzes morphology, selects appropriate support components, and provides configuration guidance without requiring manual intervention or专业知识 from the user, thereby maintaining optimized image quality while dramatically improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by using the mobile telephone's camera to capture images of the user's mouth and the acquired representation to analyze morphology. This feedback loop enables the system to automatically determine the appropriate kit configuration and guide the user accordingly, eliminating the need for manual configuration while ensuring optimized image quality through morphology-based adaptation.
4Reliability
If compatibility checking is performed in real-time, then reliability of acquisition improves, but productivity decreases due to additional verification steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by performing compatibility checking during the initial setup and configuration phase, before actual image acquisition begins. The system analyzes the user's morphology and determines compatible support components in advance, so that during the actual acquisition process, compatibility is already established and no additional verification steps are needed, thereby maintaining high reliability without sacrificing productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback by continuously monitoring and verifying compatibility between the user's morphology and the configured support components during the acquisition process. The system provides real-time feedback on compatibility status and can guide users to adjust configurations if incompatibilities are detected, ensuring reliable acquisitions while minimizing delays through automated verification rather than manual checking.
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AI summary
An acquisition kit including: a mobile telephone with an objective lens for acquiring a 2D and/or 3D representation; a holder to which the telephone is fastened, the holder defining an oral aperture to be inserted into the mouth of a user, the objective lens having a view at least partially representing the oral aperture, the view representing at least a first mark selected from:—a categorization mark identifying a category to which a first constitutive component of the holder belongs; and/or—a personalization mark identifying the user and/or pathology of the user and/or dental care professional and/or group of professionals. The kit includes a computer controller programmed to read the first represented mark and to deduce therefrom a first identifier; then record the first identifier and/or prepare and transmit a message to the user and/or dental care professional; and/or to modify the calibration of the telephone.