Patent Document ID: 9738036
Application ID: 14556399
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for manufacturing a model of an anatomical feature of a subject, comprising: utilizing a stereographic digital image camera at a plurality of different vantage points relative to a reference anatomical feature to capture a plurality of three dimensional digital image pairs of a corresponding plurality of external surface portions of said reference anatomical feature; and processing said plurality of three dimensional digital image pairs to produce a three dimensional digital surface image of said reference anatomical feature and a corresponding data file, said processing comprises: processing said plurality of said stereographic digital image pairs to produce three dimensional digital image surface portions each corresponding to one of said plurality of external surface portions of said reference anatomical feature; and identifying one or more identified non-deformable and deformable surface portions of said subject captured in said three dimensional image surface portions for registration of said three dimensional image portions.