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8184147 |
Apparatus and methods for full-mouth intraoral image acquisition
Apparatus and methods for full-mouth intraoral image acquisition. An intraoral sensor configuration includes a multi-aperture digital camera and/or a conformal layered sensor structure, a bite...
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8063932 |
Camera for medical, particularly dental use
The medical, particularly dental imaging camera including an elongated housing (2) that can be held by a single hand of a user and provided, at its front end, with an imaging element, this housing...
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8035684 |
Image-signal generating apparatus
An image-signal generating apparatus comprises a solid-state image pickup device-equivalent load circuit unit including a load approximately equivalent to a solid-state image pickup device such as...
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7986342 |
Multi-purpose imaging apparatus and adaptors therefor
Provided is a multi-purpose imaging apparatus (10) comprising a body (14) and imaging means (36) housed within the body (14). The body (14) is adapted to releasably engage an adaptor (12). The...
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7860289 |
Method of dental microscopic procedure
A dental microscopic procedure uses a digital surgical scope comprising a lens assembly for magnifying an optical image of an object and an illumination device for illuminating the object along the...
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7839428 |
Spectral band separation (SBS) modules, and color camera modules with non-overlap spectral band color filter arrays (CFAs)
Spectral Band Separation (SBS) modules including at least one dichroic element for imaging at least two different still or video images along non co-directional lines of sight for imaging purposes...
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7840042 |
Superposition for visualization of three-dimensional data acquisition
The systems and methods disclosed herein employ superposition of two-dimensional video and a rendered, three-dimensional image to provide visual feedback during acquisition and analysis of...
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7777696 |
Display associated with a treatment device for dental material
A display associated with a treatment device for dental material, with which at least one operating state of the device can be displayed. The display is a function of the operating state of the...
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7713058 |
Dental mirror, and an intraoral camera system using the same
An intraoral camera system is disclosed, which includes a dental mirror having a aperture for transmitting light therethrough, the aperture being provided in the center or any other part of the...
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7696957 |
Driving method of plasma display panel
To provide a driving method of a plasma display panel capable of improving a dark contrast while preventing a spurious discharge. A discharge is produced in discharge cells only in an address...
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7577344 |
Light-shielding device for oral photography
An illuminating device is used for oral photography and is connectable to a lens barrel provided on a camera. The illuminating device includes a light-emitting surface that has an arc shape, so...
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7540647 |
Medical inspection devices
A medical inspection device. A housing includes a transparent plate. A circuit board is disposed in the housing. At least one light-emitting element is disposed on and electrically connected to the...
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7457443 |
Image guided implantology methods
A method for correcting inherent distortions in a CT or MRI imaging process, or distortions arising from excessive patient movement during the scan by means of a registration device inserted into...
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7443417 |
Method of performing dental work and apparatus providing vision enhancement dentistry
A method of performing dental work without directly viewing an operative field utilizing an apparatus providing vision enhancement in dentistry. A dental camera apparatus enables the display of a...
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7139016 |
Intra-oral camera system with chair-mounted display
A portable intra-oral capture and display system, designed for use by a dental practitioner in connection with a patient seated in a dental chair, includes: a handpiece elongated for insertion into...
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7106958 |
Intra-oral camera and a method for using same
An intra-oral camera for producing an axially aligned picture of an intra-oral item of interest permits a rapid taking of pictures, whereby burdensome usage requirements are avoided without,...
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7084899 |
Cable with built in-frame grabber for a dental video camera
A cable assembly for a dental video camera system includes a dental video camera with a camera cable and a camera connector, a monitor with a monitor cable and a monitor connector and a power...
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7057639 |
Intra-oral camera with integral display
A portable intra-oral capture and display system includes: (a) a handpiece elongated for insertion into an oral cavity, said handpiece including a light emitter on a distal end thereof for...
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7010223 |
Dental or endoscopic camera
According to the invention, the lens system of a dental or endoscopic camera is designed in the form of a non-telecentric lens in which the field stop or an image thereof is located in the region...
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7006126 |
Color analyzing apparatus with polarized light source
A light analyzer with a first light source configured and disposed for irradiating with a first light an object disposed at an object location. A second light source is configured and disposed for...
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6977670 |
Method and apparatus for selective registration of endoscopes with database
An electronic endoscope system includes an electronic endoscope and a processor to which the electronic endoscope is connectable. The processor includes a signal processor for displaying the images...
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6958766 |
Dental video imaging system
A dental video imaging system includes a housing having a handle portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion has a view port for viewing intra- and extra-oral dental anatomy. An...
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6947070 |
Video scope utilized in electronic endoscope system
A video scope has an image sensor, a circuit board, and a digital signal processor mounted on the circuit board. The digital signal processor reads image signals from the image sensor, and...
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6784919 |
Oral cavity image pickup apparatus
An oral cavity image pickup apparatus having an image pickup device and a holding device including a first arm and a second arm. The first arm is of sufficient length for placement inside an oral...
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6744914 |
Method and system for generating a three-dimensional object
In accordance with a specific embodiment of the present invention, an image is projected upon a surface. The image can include a pattern having a plurality of individual shapes used to measure and...
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6561972 |
Video scope for simultaneously imaging a portion from multiple directions
A video scope for simultaneously imaging a portion of the interior of an oral cavity from multiple directions. An entering portion, at its tip end, is bent. The tip end has a U-shaped pickup...
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6518998 |
Image quality by automatically changing the black level of a video signal
A video camera and imaging system having signal processing circuitry configured to change the black level (pedestal) of a video signal in response to comparing an overall system gain (for instance,...
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6483535 |
Wide angle lens system for electronic imagers having long exit pupil distances
An imaging assembly includes a miniature electronic image sensor including an imaging substrate having a plurality of pixels and a microlens array aligned with corresponding pixels on said imaging...
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6417881 |
Image rotating device of stomatocamera
Cylindrical support 20 having dope prism 2 built therein is rotatably fitted in barrel 23 as a constituent of stomatocamera frame 11. The support 20 has pin 22 erected on its periphery, and the...
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6414708 |
Video system for three dimensional imaging and photogrammetry
A video system for providing an operator with a three dimensional stereoscopic image of the oral cavity of a patient is provided. The system includes an imaging unit for providing at least two...
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6404984 |
Lighted camera for dental examinations and method of using the same
A self-contained dental camera uses white diodes to provide sufficient illumination for dental imaging without unduly depleting battery power. The illuminated dental work is imaged by a camera,...
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6373972 |
Microbe and cell function control device, a microbial ecology detector device, and a method of controlling a microbe and cell function control device
In a microbe and cell function control device, a primary electromagnetic wave radiation member is provided to radiate electromagnetic wave on microbes and cells within a predetermined wave length...
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6310642 |
Reduced area imaging devices incorporated within surgical instruments
A reduced area imaging device is provided for use in medical or dental instruments such as an endoscope. In one configuration of the imaging device, the image sensor is placed remote from the...
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6275255 |
Reduced area imaging devices
A reduced area imaging device is provided for use in medical or dental instruments such as an endoscope. In one configuration of the imaging device, the image sensor is placed remote from the...
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6201880 |
Method and apparatus for electronically imaging a tooth through transillumination by light
A method and apparatus for imaging teeth includes illuminating a surface of a tooth and electronically imaging the tooth from a non-illuminated surface of the tooth with an electronic camera....
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6181369 |
Videoscope for dental or other use
A videoscope for dental or oral use comprises a grip portion, an insert portion, a light window formed in the wall of the insert portion for illuminating an object, an acceptance window formed in...
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6097423 |
Image orientation for endoscopic video displays
An endoscope and camera are described with which a display observed through the optics in the endoscope is rotated to a desired orientation using an accelerometer. The accelerometer generates a...
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6002424 |
Dental imaging system with white balance compensation
An dental imaging apparatus and a corresponding method is disclosed. The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a lamp for providing illumination, and an image processor for processing the...
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5864361 |
Video endoscope system with color tone correction
A video endoscope system including a light guide for transmitting light emitted from a light source to illuminate an observation field of an endoscope, and a device for controlling the luminous...
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5847759 |
Combination electronic iris and connector for use with a light source
A combination electronic iris and connector for use with a light source, an optical fiber and a CCD, which is optically coupled to the optical fiber, includes a socket, a plug, a heat sink and an...
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5812187 |
Electronic endoscope apparatus
An electronic endoscope apparatus is of a field-sequential imaging type, comprising an illuminating unit for illuminating an object by sequentially emitting color illumination rays with a plurality...
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5771067 |
Dental video camera with an electrically adjustable iris
A dental video camera includes a housing which has an elongated cavity with a distal end and a proximal end, an adjustably focusing lens, a CCD camera system which is disposed within the elongated...
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5745165 |
Video scope camera
A compact and light-weight video scope camera offering easy magnification changing operations. A hollow insert portion continuous to a grip to be held by an operator is provided with an imaging...
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5675378 |
Endoscope-image processing apparatus for performing image processing of emphasis in endoscope image by pigment concentration distribution
In an endoscope apparatus, an image processing unit for an endoscope, and a method of emphasizing an endoscope image, conversion processing is performed in which an amount of pigment, such as a...
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5662586 |
Hand held diagnostic instrument with video imaging
A hand-held diagnostic instrument includes a casing having a hand-holdable body portion and a neck portion that extends from the body portion to a head portion that is formed of a back cover and a...
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5661519 |
Video camera fashioned as a handpiece for observing subjects in mouth of a patient
A number of solutions are presented for an image rectification, i.e. a realistic alignment of the image given employment of an intraoral camera. To this end, arrangement is present that reproduce...
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5604817 |
Tooth measurement without calbration bodies
A method for the optical three dimensional measurement of a tooth without calibration bodies. An optical projection system projects a pattern onto a tooth, and an optical imaging system images the...
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5585840 |
Endoscope apparatus in which image pickup means and signal control means are connected to each other by signal transmitting means
A detection signal of an image pickup device is inputted to a gate circuit to open the gate circuit by a gate signal from a drive-signal generating circuit during a period of time of a phase...
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5528432 |
Intra-oral optical viewing device
An electronic optical viewing wand capable of viewing an object in a confined space, such as a dental patient's mouth, using only ambient light. The wand can be held and the focused in one hand via...
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5527262 |
Hand-held diagnostic dental probe with video imaging
An improved hand-held diagnostic dental probe includes a casing that having a hand-holdable body portion, a neck portion that extends from the body portion to a head portion that is formed of a...
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