Patents by Inventor Christopher E. Cramer

Christopher E. Cramer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210393375
    Abstract: A method may include: receiving facial image of the patient that depicts the patient's teeth; receiving a 3D model of the patient's teeth; determining color palette of the depiction of the patient's teeth; coding 3D model of the patient's teeth based on attributes of the 3D model; providing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model to a neural network; processing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model by the neural network to generate a processed image of the patient's teeth; simulating specular highlights on the processed image of the patient's teeth; and inserting the processed image of the patient's teeth into a mouth opening of the facial image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Samuel Blanco, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Chad Clayton Brown, Christopher E. Cramer
  • Publication number: 20210196434
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for automatically segmenting a 3D model of a patient's teeth. A patient's dentition may be scanned. The scan data may be converted into a 3D model, including a sparse voxel representation of the 3D model. Features can be extracted from the sparse voxel representation of the 3D model and input into a machine learning model to train the machine learning model to segment the 3D model into individual dental components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher E. CRAMER, Roman GUDCHENKO, Dmitrii ISCHEYKIN, Vasily PARAKETSOV, Sergey GREBENKIN, Denis DURDIN, Dmitry GUSKOV, Nikolay ZHIRNOV, Mikhail GORODILOV, Ivan POTAPENKO, Anton BASKANOV, Elizaveta BORD, Alexander VOVCHENKO, Roman SOLOVYEV, Aleksandr Sergeevich KARSAKOV, Aleksandr ANIKIN, Mikhail TOPORKOV
  • Publication number: 20210186659
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for optimizing a 3D model of an individual's teeth. A 3D dental model may be reconstructed from 3D parameters. A differentiable renderer may be used to derive a 2D rendering of the individual's dentition. 2D image(s) of an individual's dentition may be obtained, and features may be extracted from the 2D image(s). Image loss between the 2D rendering and the 2D image(s) can be derived, and back-propagation from the image loss can be used to calculate gradients of the loss to optimize the 3D parameters. A machine learning model can also be trained to predict a 3D dental model from 2D images of an individual's dentition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Guotu LI, Christopher E. CRAMER
  • Publication number: 20210174477
    Abstract: In a technique to assess the blurriness of an image, an image of a face is received, the image including a depiction of lips. A processing device determines a region of interest in the image, wherein the region of interest comprises an area inside of the lips. The processing device applies a focus operator to the pixels within the region of interest, and calculates a sharpness metric for the region of interest using an output of the focus operator. The processing device determines whether the sharpness metric satisfies a sharpness criterion, and one or more additional operations are performed responsive to determining that the sharpness metric satisfies the sharpness criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Chao Shi, Yingjie Li, Chad Clayton Brown, Christopher E. Cramer
  • Patent number: 11026766
    Abstract: A method may include: receiving facial image of the patient that depicts the patient's teeth; receiving a 3D model of the patient's teeth; determining color palette of the depiction of the patient's teeth; coding 3D model of the patient's teeth based on attributes of the 3D model; providing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model to a neural network; processing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model by the neural network to generate a processed image of the patient's teeth; simulating specular highlights on the processed image of the patient's teeth; and inserting the processed image of the patient's teeth into a mouth opening of the facial image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Samuel Blanco, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Chad Clayton Brown, Christopher E. Cramer
  • Publication number: 20210134436
    Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods for anonymizing clinical data may include receiving representation data corresponding to a body part. The representation data may include a clinically relevant region and an anonymization region. The method may include extracting, from the representation data, clinical representation data corresponding to the clinically relevant region of the representation data and generating artificial representation data corresponding to the anonymization region of the representation data. The method may further include creating, based at least on the clinical representation data and the artificial representation data, anonymized representation data that substantially preserves the clinically relevant region. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Eric P. MEYER, Christopher E. CRAMER
  • Publication number: 20210073998
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses (including systems and devices), including computer-implemented methods for segmenting, correcting and/or modifying a three-dimensional (3D) model of a subject's oral cavity to determine individual components such as teeth, gingiva, tongue, palate, etc., that may be selective and/or collectively digitally manipulated. In some implementations, artificial intelligence uses libraries of labeled 2D images and 3D dental models to learn how to segment a 3D dental model of a subject's oral cavity using 2D images, height map and/or other data and projection values that relate the 2D images to the 3D model. As noted herein, the dental classes can include a variety of intra-oral and extra-oral objects and can be represented as binary values, discrete values, a continuum of height map data, etc. In some implementations, several dental classes are predicted concurrently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Chad C. BROWN, Yun GAO, Pavel AGNIASHVILI, Avraham ZULTI, Jonathan COSLOVSKY, Christopher E. CRAMER, Roman GUDCHENKO, Ofer SAPHIER, Adi LEVIN, Maayan MOSHE, Doron MALKA
  • Publication number: 20210074061
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses (including systems and devices) for modifying a three-dimensional (3D) model of a subject's oral cavity to determine individual components such as teeth, gingiva, tongue, palate, etc. In some implementations one or more automated machine learning agents may modify one or more subsets of 3D models of the subject's oral cavity using height map data to identify, segment and/or modify to mesh regions of a 3D model constructed from a plurality of 2D images of the subject's dental cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Chad C. BROWN, Yun GAO, Pavel AGNIASHVILI, Avraham ZULTI, Jonathan COSLOVSKY, Christopher E. CRAMER, Roman GUDCHENKO, Ofer SAPHIER, Adi LEVIN, Maayan MOSHE, Doron MALKA
  • Publication number: 20210022833
    Abstract: A method includes determining, from a first image of a mouth, a first region of the first image comprising a representation of teeth; generating one or more parametric functions associated with tooth color based on color data from the first region; receiving image data comprising new contours of the mouth, wherein one or more of the teeth have a different position in the image data than in the first image; determining a second region comprising the teeth in the image data; and generating a new image based on the image data and the one or more parametric functions, wherein a shape of the teeth is based on the image data and a color of the teeth is based on applying the one or more parametric functions to the second region of the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher E. Cramer, Chad Clayton Brown
  • Patent number: 10835349
    Abstract: A method includes determining, from a first image, a first region comprising teeth, wherein the first region comprises a first set of pixel locations. A first parametric function is generated based on intensities at the first set of pixel locations. Image data comprising new contours of the mouth is received, wherein one or more of the teeth have a different position in the image data than in the first image. A second region comprising the teeth is determined from the image data, wherein the second region comprises a second set of pixel locations for the teeth. A new image is then generated based on the image data and the first parametric function, wherein a shape of the teeth is based on the image data and a color of the teeth is based on applying the first parametric function to the second set of pixel locations for the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Cramer, Chad Clayton Brown
  • Publication number: 20200315744
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and apparatuses for analyzing a patient's dental arches in order to generate a treatment plan for the dentition. In particular described herein are methods and apparatuses for determining accurate standardized tooth numbering even when there are missing and/or supernumerary teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Christopher E. CRAMER
  • Publication number: 20200085546
    Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for scoring a post-treatment tooth position of a patient's teeth. A patient's dentition may be scanned and/or segmented. Raw dental features, principal component analysis (PCA) features, and/or other features may be extracted and compared to those of other teeth, such as those obtained through automated machine learning systems. A classifier can identify and/or output the post-treatment tooth position of the patient's teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Guotu LI, Christopher E. CRAMER, Chad Clayton BROWN, Anton SPIRIDONOV
  • Publication number: 20200022783
    Abstract: A method includes determining, from a first image, a first region comprising teeth, wherein the first region comprises a first set of pixel locations. A first parametric function is generated based on intensities at the first set of pixel locations. Image data comprising new contours of the mouth is received, wherein one or more of the teeth have a different position in the image data than in the first image. A second region comprising the teeth is determined from the image data, wherein the second region comprises a second set of pixel locations for the teeth. A new image is then generated based on the image data and the first parametric function, wherein a shape of the teeth is based on the image data and a color of the teeth is based on applying the first parametric function to the second set of pixel locations for the teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher E. Cramer, Chad Clayton Brown
  • Publication number: 20190350680
    Abstract: A method may include: receiving facial image of the patient that depicts the patient's teeth; receiving a 3D model of the patient's teeth; determining color palette of the depiction of the patient's teeth; coding 3D model of the patient's teeth based on attributes of the 3D model; providing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model to a neural network; processing the 3D model, the color palette, and the coded 3D model by the neural network to generate a processed image of the patient's teeth; simulating specular highlights on the processed image of the patient's teeth; and inserting the processed image of the patient's teeth into a mouth opening of the facial image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Dmitry Yurievich Chekh, Samuel Blanco, Vladislav Andreevich Miryaha, Boris Aleksandrovich Vysokanov, Chad Clayton Brown, Christopher E. Cramer