Patent ID: 11928832
Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 23:
24. The intraoral scanning system of claim 23, wherein the one or more removal criteria comprises a threshold number of points in the region that a) are not behind corresponding points in the additional intraoral scan and b) are co-directional with the viewing direction associated with the additional intraoral scan, and wherein the computing device is further to:
determine a number of points in the region that a) are not behind corresponding points in the additional intraoral scan and b) are co-directional with the viewing direction associated with the additional intraoral scan;
determine that the number of points in the region that a) are not behind corresponding points in the additional intraoral scan and b) are co-directional with the viewing direction associated with the additional intraoral scan exceeds the threshold number of points; and
determine that the region satisfies the one or more removal criteria.