Automated Smile Modeling with Structural Feature Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
The current smile design modeling process lacks the ability to accurately model the ideal smile on every individual through a fully automated process, resulting in time-consuming manual interventions that can take 30 minutes to 1.5 hours per patient.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus for automated smile design modeling captures facial measurements via a camera system, generates a structural feature model, identifies ideal measurements using stored rules, determines desired changes, and applies these changes to create a final model, which can be displayed on a display device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual smile design modeling is used, then the process can be performed with existing tools, but the process time is excessive (30 minutes to 1.5 hours per patient)
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automated smile design modeling by capturing facial measurements through a camera system and automatically generating structural feature models using stored rules and algorithms, eliminating the need for manual intervention and significantly reducing process time from 30-90 minutes to near-instantaneous completion
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical measurement and modeling processes with an automated digital system that uses camera-based facial measurement capture and computer algorithms to generate smile design models, substituting human operator actions with automated computational processes
2Manufacturing precision
If manual smile design modeling is used, then flexibility in handling individual cases is maintained, but accuracy and precision are compromised due to human error
Solution Approach 1:
The automated system eliminates human error by performing all measurements and model generation steps through standardized algorithms and stored rules, ensuring consistent and accurate results across all patients without variability introduced by manual操作
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses stored rules that associate facial measurements with ideal measurements to automatically determine desired changes and apply them, creating a feedback loop that ensures modeling accuracy and consistency based on established dental esthetics principles
3Productivity
If automated smile design modeling is implemented, then process time is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a single camera system to capture multiple facial measurements and a unified set of stored rules to handle various smile design scenarios, making the automated system versatile enough to manage different cases without requiring multiple specialized devices
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a camera system as an intermediary device to capture facial measurements and a computer system with stored rules as a mediator to process the data and generate models, simplifying the automation process while maintaining accuracy
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AI summary
An apparatus for automatically modeling smile design may be configured to capture a first set of facial measurements via a camera system. Using said first set of facial measurements a structural feature model may be generated. Generation of a structural feature model may include generating an initial structural feature model using at least a first set of facial measurements; identifying a plurality of ideal measurements; determining a plurality of desired changes; and applying said desired changes to the structural feature model, generating a final structural feature model. Lastly, the final structural feature model may be displayed on a display device.