Patents Assigned to 3Shape A/S
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Patent number: 9329675Abstract: Disclosed is a system comprising a handheld device and at least one display. The handheld device is adapted for performing at least one action in a physical 3D environment; wherein the at least one display is adapted for visually representing the physical 3D environment; and where the handheld device is adapted for remotely controlling the view with which the 3D environment is represented on the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Henrik Öjelund, David Fischer, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck
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Patent number: 9329015Abstract: Disclosed is an object feeder system configured for arrangement in a three dimensional scanner, the system comprising: an object feeder scanning plate assembly comprising a number of tracks, wherein each track adapted to hold at least one object holder, wherein said tracks are configured to extend within the plate assembly from a parking area towards a scanning area, and where each object holder is configured for retaining an object to be scanned in the scanner for obtaining a three dimensional representation of the object, and wherein the object feeder system further comprises means for moving the at least one object holder in the at least one track.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Tais Clausen, Rune Fisker, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck, Christian Højris Nielsen, Mikkel Bille Stegmann, Morten Rudkjær Schrøder, Søren Greve Jensen, Bo Petersen
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Patent number: 9320572Abstract: A method and a 3D guiding system for providing a guided relative movement of a first object and a second object are disclosed. The 3D guiding system comprises a 3D scanner configured for performing a 3D scanning of the second object, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured for at least temporary storing: a 3D model of the second object; program code for determining a present relative arrangement of the first and second objects from a result of a 3D scanning of the second object; and program code for calculating information for guiding the relative movement of the first and second objects towards said first preferred relative arrangement from said present relative arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Nikolaj Deichmann, Rune Fisker
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Publication number: 20160103935Abstract: Tools in a system for the design of customized three-dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks. Moreover, a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer. A system for designing at least one dental restoration, said system including: a display, means for acquiring and displaying a three dimensional dental restoration model of the dental restoration, and means for displaying a plurality of control points, each of the control points corresponding to a respective location on the dental restoration model, and each of said control points enabling manual customization of the dental restoration model.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune FISKER, Tais CLAUSEN, Nikolaj DEICHMANN
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Patent number: 9308055Abstract: A method, a system, and a user interface for creating a virtual positioning jig for manufacturing a positioning jig, where the manufactured positioning jig is for use in positioning a manufactured dental restoration at a patient's set of teeth, the method including: obtaining a digital 3D representation of the set of teeth; designing a virtual model of the dental restoration at the digital 3D representation; creating an inner surface and an outer surface of the virtual positioning jig; and defining a through hole of the virtual positioning jig at the implant region.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Tais Clausen
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Patent number: 9289276Abstract: Tools in a system for the design of customized three-dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks. Moreover, a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer. A system for designing at least one dental restoration, said system including: a display, means for acquiring and displaying a three dimensional dental restoration model of the dental restoration, and means for displaying a plurality of control points, each of the control points corresponding to a respective location on the dental restoration model, and each of said control points enabling manual customization of the dental restoration model.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Tais Clausen, Nikolaj Deichmann
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Publication number: 20160022389Abstract: Disclosed are a scanner system and a method for recording surface geometry and surface color of an object where both surface geometry information and surface color information for a block of said image sensor pixels at least partly from one 2D image recorded by said color image sensorType: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Bo ESBECH, Christian Romer ROSBERG, Mike VAN DER POEL, Rasmus KJAER, Michael VINTHER, Karl-Josef HOLLENBECK
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Publication number: 20160015246Abstract: A method for visualizing a 3D dental restoration on a 2D image of the mouth of a patient, the method including obtaining a 3D dental model of at least a part of the patient's oral cavity, designing the 3D dental restoration, obtaining the 2D image of the mouth of the patient, estimating a virtual camera comprising at least one virtual camera property corresponding to at least one physical camera property of the physical camera used to obtain the 2D image, viewing the 3D dental restoration using the virtual camera, determining the visible area of the 3D dental restoration, which is not overlapped by surrounding anatomic features when viewed with the virtual camera, imaging the visible area of the 3D dental restoration with the 2D image. This provides an image which with high accuracy gives the dentist and the patient a visual presentation of the final result of a dental treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Tais CLAUSEN, Rune FISKER
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Patent number: 9237942Abstract: Tools in a system for the design of customized three-dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks. Moreover, a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer. A system for designing at least one dental restoration, said system including: a display, means for acquiring and displaying a three dimensional dental restoration model of the dental restoration, and means for displaying a plurality of control points, each of the control points corresponding to a respective location on the dental restoration model, and each of said control points enabling manual customization of the dental restoration model.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Tais Clausen, Nikolaj Deichmann
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Patent number: 9204804Abstract: A 3D scanner for recording topographic characteristics of a surface of at least part of a body orifice, where the 3D scanner includes a main body having a mounting portion; a tip which can be mounted onto and un-mounted from the mounting portion, where the tip is configured for being brought into proximity of the body orifice surface when recording the topographic characteristics such that at least one optical element of the tip is at least partly exposed to the environment in the body orifice during the recording; and a heater for heating the optical element, where the heat is provided by way of thermal conduction; where the tip can be sterilized in a steam autoclave when un-mounted from the main body of the 3D scanner such that it subsequently can be reused.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Karl-Josef Hollenbeck, Bo Petersen, Mike van der Poel, Thomas Moon, Stefan Elmsted Jensen
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Patent number: 9180624Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of arranging three-dimensional virtual designs configured to be manufactured as physical designs on a production batch, the method including: providing the virtual designs, where each virtual design is based on a three-dimensional representation of an object, and where at least a number of the virtual designs belongs to a group, where the virtual designs in a respective group satisfy at least one common criterion; and arranging the virtual designs relative to the production batch.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, David Fischer
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Publication number: 20150282904Abstract: A method for designing a virtual dental restoration for manufacturing a dental restoration for a patient, said dental restoration including an anatomy portion and a sub-gingival portion, wherein the method includes: obtaining a virtual anatomy surface expressing a target shape of the anatomy portion of the dental restoration; and creating a virtual sub-gingival surface for the sub-gingival portion of the dental restoration; where the created virtual sub-gingival surface is shaped such that it contacts the virtual anatomy surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventor: Rune Fisker
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Publication number: 20150265381Abstract: Tools in a system for the design of customized three-dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks. Moreover, a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer. A system for designing at least one dental restoration, said system including: a display, means for acquiring and displaying a three dimensional dental restoration model of the dental restoration, and means for displaying a plurality of control points, each of the control points corresponding to a respective location on the dental restoration model, and each of said control points enabling manual customization of the dental restoration model.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: September 24, 2015Applicant: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune FISKER, Tais CLAUSEN, Nikolaj DEICHMANN
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Publication number: 20150250568Abstract: Disclosed is a method for designing a virtual mould used for manufacturing a corresponding physical mould adapted to be used in manufacturing of a dental restoration for a patient, wherein the method includes obtaining a 3D representation of the patient's set of teeth; virtually designing at least a first layer and a second layer of the dental restoration, where the first layer is part of a first portion of the dental restoration, and; and virtually designing the mould, where the inside surface of the mould is adapted to match the combination of at first portion and the second layer, where the inside surface of the mould corresponds to the shape of the dental restoration, where virtually designing the mould comprises designing a virtual retention structure of the mould.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicants: CROWNCERAM, 3Shape A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Frederic Rapp
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Patent number: 9075937Abstract: The present disclosure relates to tools in a system for the design of customized three-dimensional models of dental restorations for subsequent manufacturing. Dental restorations such as implant abutments, copings, crowns, wax-ups, bridge frameworks. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a computer-readable medium for implementing such a system on a computer.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: 3SHAPE A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Tais Clausen, Nikolaj Deichmann
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Publication number: 20150164335Abstract: Disclosed is a 3D scanner system for detecting and/or visualizing cariogenic regions in teeth based on fluorescence emitted from the teeth, said 3D scanner system including a data processor configured for mapping a representation of fluorescence emitted from the teeth onto the corresponding portion of a digital 3D representation of the teeth to provide a combined digital 3D representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: 3Shape A/SInventors: Mike Van Der Poel, Karl-Josef Hollenbeck
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Publication number: 20150150660Abstract: A method of designing a virtual 3D model of a dental restoration for a target site of a patient's set of teeth, the method including-obtaining a digital 3D representation of the set of teeth, the digital 3D representation comprising a section corresponding to the target site; determining an insertion path for the dental restoration to the target site; and designing the virtual 3D model of the dental restoration based on the digital 3D representation of the set of teeth, where the designing includes generating an outer surface of the virtual 3D model, where the determined insertion path and the outer surface of the designed virtual 3D model provide that a dental restoration manufactured from the designed virtual 3D model can be moved along the insertion path to the target site.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: 3Shape A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Sven Nonboe
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Patent number: 9019576Abstract: A 3D scanner for recording the 3D topography of an object, the 3D scanner includes an illumination unit configured for providing probe light for illuminating the object, where the probe light includes a pattern of light rays; an image sensor for acquiring one or more 2D images of light rays returning from the illuminated object; an optical system including an optical element arranged such that the patterned probe light passes through it when propagating towards the object from the illumination unit along an optical path; and a device for changing the configuration of the optical system between a first and a second configuration, where the change in configuration comprises a change in orientation of the optical element between a first orientation and a second orientation relative to the optical path of the probe light.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: 3Shape A/SInventors: Christian Romer Rosberg, Bo Esbech
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Publication number: 20150111177Abstract: Disclosed is a method for modeling a digital design of a denture for a patient, said denture comprising a gingival part and a teeth part comprising a set of denture teeth, where the method comprises: obtaining a digital 3D representation of the patient's gum; obtaining virtual teeth models corresponding to the denture teeth; virtually arranging the virtual teeth models in relation to the digital 3D representation of the patient's gum; and generating a virtual outer gingival surface of the gingival part of the dentureType: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicant: 3Shape A/SInventors: Rune Fisker, Morten Ryde Hansen
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Publication number: 20150079535Abstract: A 3D scanner for recording topographic characteristics of a surface of at least part of a body orifice, where the 3D scanner includes a main body having a mounting portion; a tip which can be mounted onto and un-mounted from the mounting portion, where the tip is configured for being brought into proximity of the body orifice surface when recording the topographic characteristics such that at least one optical element of the tip is at least partly exposed to the environment in the body orifice during the recording; and a heater for heating the optical element, where the heat is provided by way of thermal conduction; where the tip can be sterilized in a steam autoclave when un-mounted from the main body of the 3D scanner such that it subsequently can be reused.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: 3Shape A/SInventors: Karl-Josef HOLLENBECK, Bo Petersen, Mike van der POEL, Thomas Moon, Stefan Elmsted Jensen