Patent ID: 11864971
Assignee: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G  B | IPC A  B  G

Claim 13:
14. A system for generating a virtual depiction of an orthodontic treatment of a patient, the system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory operably coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the memory comprises instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a digital imaging device, at least one 2D image of a patient's face, wherein the at least one 2D image depicts the patient's teeth in an initial arrangement within a mouth opening of the patient's face;
extracting teeth contours of the patient's teeth from within the mouth opening of the at least one received 2D image of the patient's face;
generating, using a neural network, a 2D rendering depicting a post-treatment arrangement of the patient's teeth, based on the at least one received 2D image;
aligning the extracted teeth contours with teeth contours of the 2D rendering to generate a realistic composite 2D image depicting the patient's face with the patient's teeth in the post-treatment tooth arrangement within the mouth opening; and
sending the realistic composite 2D image to an output device for display on a user interface of the output device.