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Optical measurement device and related process

  • US 6,750,971 B2
  • Filed: 09/06/2002
  • Issued: 06/15/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/08/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A device for acquiring an image of a tooth comprising:

  • sensor means for sensing an image of the tooth, said sensor means having a line of sensing;

    a filter that transmits separated tristimulus bandwidths to said sensor means; and

    display means for displaying the image, said display means including a line of viewing, said line of viewing substantially the same as said line of sensing, whereby the user views the tooth from a perspective that is the same as the perspective that said sensor means senses the tooth image, said display means substantially aligned behind said sensor means.

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