Abstract: A data generation program is configured to cause a computing device to display, on a display, an oral cavity image three-dimensionally showing an oral cavity including a biological tissue, set, in the oral cavity image, a first spot indicating a top of a crown portion, a second spot indicating a top of an alveolar bone or a junction between a tooth and a gingiva, and a third spot indicating a root apex portion based on a user input or machine learning, and calculate a ratio between a first distance between the first spot and the second spot and a second distance between the second spot and the third spot.

Abstract: Provided is a detection tool that detects a temperature of air. The detection tool includes a detection section that detects a temperature of air released from an air turbine handpiece, and a main body that includes a surface. The detection section is provided on the surface to allow the air turbine handpiece to be brought close to the detection section.

Abstract: An imaging device that includes a housing mounted on the head of a subject, a camera that is held by the housing and captures an image of an eyeball of the subject, communication circuitry that communicates information with an external device, and controller circuitry that synchronizes together the image captured by the camera and an external signal output from the external device and received.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus that performs processing for image data of a maxillofacial region obtained by X-ray CT imaging, and includes a memory that stores image data including an alveolar bone region, and an image processor that generates a display stereoscopic image based on the image data. The image processor executes processing for setting a continuous section curved along the alveolar bone region in the alveolar bone region, and processing for generating, as the display stereoscopic image, an image in which a transparency degree of a first region located in a region on one side with the continuous section in the alveolar bone region as a boundary is displayed to be larger than a transparency degree of a second region located in a region on the other side with the continuous section in the alveolar bone region as a boundary.

Abstract: A three-dimensional scanner includes a lens, imaging circuitry that obtains an image of an object located at a focal position of the lens, a lens driver that drives the lens to make reciprocating motion in a linear direction, obtaining circuitry that obtains geometrical data representing a surface geometry based on an image taken by the imaging circuitry, and lens controller circuitry that controls the lens driver to change an amplitude of reciprocating motion of the lens based on the geometrical data obtained by the obtaining circuitry.

Abstract: A three-dimensional scanner includes imaging circuitry configured to take an image of an object located at a focal position of a lens, a lens driver configured to drive the lens to make reciprocating motion in a linear direction, an angle detector configured to detect variation in angle of inclination of the lens with respect to a prescribed direction, and processing circuitry configured to control an operation of the lens in accordance with the variation in angle of inclination detected by the angle detector.

Abstract: A linear motor includes: a movable element including a permanent magnet; a stator including a coil positioned to face the permanent magnet; and a linear guide configured to guide the movable element to move linearly. A support portion provided on the linear guide and a holding portion provided on the movable element to correspond to the support portion are fitted and thereby the movable element is attached to the linear guide. The coil includes a yoke having a plate shape and a winding wire wound around the yoke. The winding wire is continuously wound around the yoke to include a first region where the winding wire is wound around the yoke in a first winding direction and a second region where the winding wire is wound around the yoke in a second winding direction opposite to the first winding direction.

Abstract: A data-generating apparatus includes: input processing circuitry configured to receive upper-jaw tooth row data showing a three-dimensional shape of a row of teeth in an upper jaw, lower-jaw tooth row data showing a three-dimensional shape of a row of teeth in a lower jaw, and jaw motion data showing a jaw motion; and generation processing circuitry configured to generate, based on the upper-jaw tooth row data, the lower-jaw tooth row data, and the jaw motion data, video data of at least one of the upper-jaw tooth row data and the lower-jaw tooth row data to which an indicator is added, the indicator indicating a positional relation between the row of teeth in the upper jaw and the row of teeth in the lower jaw, the positional relation changing in accordance with the jaw motion.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a linear motor that undergoes no deterioration of the measurement accuracy or the driving accuracy depending on a driving situation, and a medical care apparatus including the linear motor. The linear motor of the present disclosure is a linear motor that moves linearly, the linear motor including: a movable element including a permanent magnet; a stator including a coil positioned to face the permanent magnet; and two parallel linear guides configured to guide the movable element to move linearly. Support portions provided on the linear guides, respectively, and holding portions provided on the movable element to correspond to the support portions are fitted with play and thereby the movable element is attached to the linear guides. A position where the permanent magnet is attached to the movable element is asymmetrical with respect to each of the holding portions.

Abstract: An abnormality detection system for highly precise detection of an abnormality in a laser treatment device includes a laser transmission tube coupled with a laser treatment unit, oscillating laser light, a discharge-side water pressure sensor, and a water pressure detection liquid surface level meter detecting a change in a pressure of cooling water flowing through forward-direction and a backward-direction spaces in the laser transmission tube. The laser transmission tube includes a hollow wavelength path having a lightguide space formed in a longitudinal direction, and an outer case enclosing an outer circumferential surface of the hollow waveguide path and extending in the longitudinal direction. The discharge-side water pressure sensor and the water pressure detection liquid surface level meter detect the change in the pressure of the cooling water flowing through in a forward-direction space and a backward-direction space to detect any abnormality.

Abstract: A radiation image scanner is a radiation image scanner that reads a radiation image from a front surface of an image plate (IP), and includes a stage that supports the IP from a back surface side and a setting guide including a first IP guide surface that guides the IP obliquely downward. At least one of the setting guide and the stage includes an inclined surface (second IP guide surface), which is a surface inclined downward to the opposite side with respect to the first IP guide surface, receives the IP guided by the first IP guide surface, and guides the IP obliquely downward. At least one of the stage and the setting guide includes a front-back inverting portion that comes into contact with the IP from a front surface side of the IP to invert the IP to the same inclined posture as the inclined surface.

Abstract: A dental treatment apparatus includes: a handpiece including a head that holds a cutting tool; a drive unit capable of performing forward rotation driving for rotating the cutting tool held at the head in a cutting direction, and reverse rotation driving for rotating the cutting tool held at the head in a non-cutting direction; an operation receiving unit that receives an operation of an operator; and a controller that controls the drive unit that drives the cutting tool, according to the operation received by the operation receiving unit. Only when a prescribed condition is satisfied, the controller sets the operation received by the operation receiving unit as an operation to drive the cutting tool by reverse rotation driving, or as an operation to drive the cutting tool by twist driving by which the forward rotation driving and the reverse rotation driving are alternately performed.

Abstract: A dental observation device by which, without displaying, in an overlapping manner, a visible light image of an image-capturing site in an oral cavity captured by a 3-D camera and 3-D image information on the image-capturing site in the oral cavity acquired in advance, an invisible portion in the visible light image is easily recognized. An observation system includes a visible light 3-D camera; a relative position calculator; a 3-D information storage storing 3-D image information acquired in advance; an image display displaying, side by side, a 2-D captured image captured by the visible light 3-D camera and 2-D converted image based on the 3-D image information corresponding to the surgical operation target site; and a display direction adjuster displaying, in the image display, the 2-D converted image in a predetermined direction on the basis of the image-capturing direction detected by the relative position calculator.

Abstract: An identification device that identifies a type of a tooth includes: an input unit that receives three-dimensional data including three-dimensional position information at each of a plurality of points forming the tooth; an identification unit that identifies a type of the tooth based on the three-dimensional data received by the input unit and an estimation model including a neural network; and an output unit that outputs an identification result obtained by the identification unit. The identification unit directly inputs the three-dimensional position information included in the three-dimensional data received by the input unit to the neural network included in the estimation model.

Abstract: A support apparatus includes an input interface that receives input of image data showing a three-dimensional geometry of a biological tissue and a computing device that derives support information including information on positions of at least the tooth and the gingiva relative to each other, by using the image data inputted from the input interface and an estimation model for support of diagnosis of the state of disease in the biological tissue based on the image data, the estimation model being trained by machine learning to derive the support information.

Abstract: An identification device includes: an input unit that receives three-dimensional data including data of a tooth; an identification unit that identifies a type of the tooth based on the three-dimensional data including a feature of the tooth received by the input unit and an estimation model including a neural network; and an output unit that outputs an identification result obtained by the identification unit.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes input interface circuitry to which first three-dimensional data and second three-dimensional data indicating objects acquired at timings different from each other for a same person are input, and processing circuitry configured to compare pieces of soft tissue of at least one tooth between the first three-dimensional data and the second three-dimensional data using a shape of a crown portion of the at least one tooth included in the objects as a reference and output comparison information regarding a comparison result.

Abstract: A detection apparatus includes input interface circuitry to which upper jaw tooth row data, lower-jaw tooth row data and occlusion data are to be input, and processing circuitry configured to detect a premature contact position by generating synthetic data indicating a synthetic three-dimensional shape of upper and lower rows of teeth in the occlusal state by synthesizing the upper-jaw tooth row data and the lower-jaw tooth row data using the occlusion data as a reference and updating at least one tooth row data of the upper-jaw tooth row data and the lower-jaw tooth row data included in the synthetic data so that a state of the upper and lower rows of teeth is displaced from the occlusal state to the open state.

Abstract: A cap mountable on and detachable from an intraoral scanner including a housing having an opening for connecting to at least a part of the intraoral scanner, a measurement window provided in the housing and located opposite to the opening, and a mirror that reflects light from the measurement window toward the opening. The housing has a longitudinal length shorter than that of a probe defining a depth-of-field, of the intraoral scanner extending from the measurement window to a predetermined extent.

Abstract: A root canal treatment instrument 100 continues drive of a cutting tool 5 in forward rotation drive until reaching 180 degrees, and when a load applied to the cutting tool 5 is equal to or greater than a reference load, drive of the cutting tool 5 is switched to reverse rotation drive until reaching 90 degrees. In the root canal treatment instrument 100, when a cumulative amount of rotation is equal to or greater than a reference amount of rotation, change to a drive pattern is made, forward rotation drive is continued until reaching 90 degrees, and when a load applied to the cutting tool 5 is equal to or greater than the reference load, drive of the cutting tool 5 is switched to reverse rotation drive until reaching 180 degrees.