IP Library Patent Application 17416818
Patent Application
App. No. 17/416,818

VOICE-ASSISTED DENTAL SYSTEMS

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App. No.
17/416,818
Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and systems using speech recognition in a dental procedure. The method can include receiving, by a computing device, voice input data that specifies dental information for a patient. The method can also include analyzing, by the computing device, the voice input data to process the dental information. Based on the identified dental treatment information, the method can include generating, by the computing device, one or more custom dental prescriptions for the patient.

Claims (40)

1 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, voice input data that specifies dental information for a patient;

analyzing, by the computing device, the voice input data to process the dental information; and

based on the identified dental treatment information, generating, by the computing device, one or more custom dental prescriptions for the patient.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing the voice input data using natural language processing (NLP) to identify the dental treatment information comprises:

identifying a dental dictionary, wherein the dental dictionary represents a subset of a general NLP dictionary;

parsing the voice input data to obtain terms; and

comparing one or more of the terms obtained from the parsed voice input to a portion of the dental dictionary.

3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining that at least one of the terms obtained from the parsed voice input data does not match any entry of the dental dictionary or the general dictionary; and

discarding the at least one term that does not match any entry of the dental dictionary without using the at least one term in generating the custom dental prescription.

4 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:

determining that at least one of the terms obtained from the parsed voice input data does not match any entry of the dental dictionary;

comparing the at least one term to a remainder of the general NLP dictionary, wherein the remainder of the general NLP dictionary does not overlap with the subset represented by the dental dictionary; and

based on determining the at least one term matches at least one entry in the remainder of the general NLP dictionary, including the at least one term in the generated custom dental prescription.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the voice input data represents, at least in part, a clinician-patient conversation, the method further comprising:

based on the NLP-based analysis of the voice input data, generating, by the computing device, patient experience information; and

adding the patient experience information to a patient experience heuristics repository.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the dental information includes one or both of dental status information or dental treatment information.

7 - 10 . (canceled)

11 . A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, voice input data specifying a patient and information for modifying a configuration of a tooth or a group of teeth of the patient;

identifying, by the computing device and based on the voice input data, stored data associated with the tooth or group of teeth of a patient; and

generating, by the computing device and based on the voice input and the stored data, one or more dental arrangements in which the configuration of the group of teeth is modified according to the information for modifying the configuration.

12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

outputting, by the computing device and for display, a visual representation of the original dental arrangement and any of the one or more dental arrangements in which the tooth or group of teeth is moved.

13 . The method of claim 12 , wherein receiving the voice input comprises receiving the voice input from a computer-mediated reality interface, and wherein outputting the visual representation of the prospective dental scan comprises outputting the visual representation of the prospective dental scan to display hardware of the computer-mediated reality interface.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the computer-mediated reality interface comprises one of a virtual reality (VR) interface or an augmented reality (AR) interface.

15 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the group of teeth includes two or more teeth, and wherein generating the prospective dental scan comprises generating data representing a synergistic movement of all of the two or more teeth included in the group.

16 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

analyzing the voice input data using natural language processing (NLP) to obtain information for modifying a configuration of a group of teeth, at least in part by:

identifying a dental dictionary, wherein the dental dictionary represents a subset of a general NLP dictionary;

parsing the voice input data to obtain terms; and

comparing one or more of the terms obtained from the parsed voice input data to a portion of the dental dictionary.

17 . The method of claim 16 , further comprising:

determining that at least one of the terms obtained from the parsed voice input does not match any entry of the dental dictionary; and

discarding the at least one term that does not match any entry of the dental dictionary without using the at least one term in generating the one or more dental arrangements.

18 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:

outputting, by the computing device and for display, a visual representation of the original dental arrangement.

19 - 20 . (canceled)

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 1, 2024
From: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
To: SOLVENTUM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES COMPANY
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ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 21, 2021
From: BEN-GAL NGUYEN, NITSAN; SOMASUNDARAM, GURUPRASAD; CUNLIFFE, ALEXANDRA R.; SHUMAN, VERA; COLLINS, ELISA J.
To: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
Reel/Frame 056604/0284 →