Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100106061 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL DETECTION OF THE SPATIAL SHAPE OF A FOOT - A method for the three-dimensional, digitized sensing of the spatial shape of at least one foot of a person. The method includes: determining a desired position for the foot which is predefined by the footwear to be selected or fabricated; moving the foot to the desired position by means of a device which can preferably be adjusted using a motor; optical sensing and digitizing the three-dimensional spatial shape of the foot in the desired position. Furthermore, an arrangement by means of which at least one foot of a person is moved to a desired position and the spatial shape of the foot is digitized in a mainly contactless manner includes a bottom plate, a first support and a second support. The first and second supports are movable, preferably using a motor, parallel or perpendicular to the bottom plate to move the foot to the desired position. | 04-29-2010 |
20100238271 | Sensing Apparatus and Method for Detecting a Three-Dimensional Physical Shape of a Body - A sensing device having a sensing arrangement with a sensing end ( | 09-23-2010 |
20100296726 | HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL DETECTION OF THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE OF BODIES - In a cost-efficient method and arrangement for 3D digitization of bodies and body parts, which produces dense and exact spatial coordinates despite imprecise optics and mechanics, the body to be digitized is placed on a photogrammetrically marked surface, a photogrammetrically marked band is fitted to the body or body part to be digitized, and a triangulation arrangement comprised of a camera and a light pattern projector is moved on a path around the body. By a photogrammetric evaluation of the photogrammetric marks of the surface and the band situated in the image field of the camera, and of the light traces of the light projector on the marked surface and the marked band, all unknown internal and external parameters of the triangulation arrangement are determined, and the absolute spatial coordinates of the body or body part are established from the light traces on the non-marked body with high point density and high precision without any separate calibration methods. | 11-25-2010 |
20110055053 | Computerized method of identifying best fitting footwear - A method of identifying footwear which best fits a customer's feet, includes the steps of digitizing the feet of a customer needing footwear with a 3D foot scanner and generating a numerical 3D model of the customer's feet, comparing, with a computer-based matching engine, the information of the 3D feet model with the content of a database containing numerical 3D models of the interior shoe shape of footwear available to be sold, producing a list of one or more best-fit footwear candidates to the customer and/or to the staff of a footwear shop and concluding the purchasing process or, respectively, aborting it in case of insufficient best fit footwear being found in the footwear stock available for selling. | 03-03-2011 |
20110123099 | SENSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETECTING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL SHAPE OF A BODY - A method for identifying a best fitting shoe includes the steps of scanning a foot using a photogrammetric 3D foot scanner for obtaining a digital 3D model of the foot, and providing a database in which 3D models of shapes of the 5 interiors of available shoes are stored. The 3D model of the digitized foot of the customer is compared with the 3D models of available shoes stored in the database and a shoe of which the 3D model of internal shape is the most similar to the 3D model of the customer foot is selected. The steps of comparing and selecting are performed using a computing unit. A sensing device for detecting a 10 three-dimensional spatial shape of a body includes a sensing end and a camera. A method of detecting a three-dimensional interior spatial shape includes providing the sensing device and scanning the spatial shape. | 05-26-2011 |
20120013630 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A SHOE FITTED TO A FOOT AND ASSEMBLIES THEREFOR - A method for selecting a shoe fitted to a foot from a plurality of shoes. For each shoe from the plurality of shoes, a dimensionally accurate outline of the footbed of the shoe is provided in electronic form. Further, for each shoe from the plurality of shoes, a dimensionally accurate outline of a section through the shoe, wherein the sectional plane runs perpendicularly to the footbed and along the way of largest foot length of a foot positioned in the shoe, is provided in electronic form. A representation of the footbed outline and of the sectional outline to scale is effected for a shoe on a flat screen, wherein the design of the outline area is in distinct contrast to the design of the background area. The foot is positioned on and in front of the flat screen, respectively, such that preferably only a circumferential edge of the represented outline remains visible. A visual comparison of the represented outlines with the foot to be dressed is effected by assessing the edge of the represented outline remaining visible with respect to size and progress. Further, an assembly for selecting a shoe fitted to a foot from a plurality of shoes including a data processing system with a database and an output unit, as well as an assembly for simultaneous representation of the footbed outline and the sectional outline to scale for a shoe corresponding to the method with two flat screens perpendicular to each other are provided. | 01-19-2012 |
20130053702 | CALIBRATION-FREE AND PRECISE OPTICAL DETECTION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE - A support plate with a horizontal flat standing surface carries two posts, and is rotated about a vertical axis. A stationary triangulation measuring head having a camera and a light line projector, projects light lines, which are perpendicular to the plane of the support plate, onto a person who stands upright on the standing surface of the plate. Encoded, photogrammetrically evaluatable marks are arranged on the plate around the standing surface and on the post. Images taken by the camera during rotation of the plate are transferred to a computer to determine a three-dimensional shape of the person or of part of the person. Marking-free fields are arranged on the support plate and on the post. The computer determines the parameters of the triangulation measuring head to performs a self-calibration of the detection process based on positions of the photogrammetric marks and shapes of light traces on the marking-free fields. | 02-28-2013 |
20140149072 | Scanner-Assisted Selection of Fitting Footwear with Individualized Footbed - A method is described for selecting, in a cost-effective and largely automated manner, best fit footwear with an optimally selected or individualized footbed. With the aid of a preferably multisensory foot scanner, the geometric three-dimensional shape of the foot and the plantar pressure image registered with it are determined at the same time. A database of digitized shoe interiors is used for determining, by means of a best fit selection, the series-produced shoe that best matches the 3D foot model. Using a conventional system for producing individualized insoles and/or footbeds, an insole that matches the sole of the foot is selected or prepared and, in a further, novel method step according to the invention, by means of numerical determination of the three-dimensional surfaces of the footbed, the foot sole and the peripheral zone of the sole in the inner shoe, the so-called insole space, the required insole constituting the footbed is selected, or further processed numerically, such that it fits in an optimum manner into the selected best fit item of footwear in the put-on condition. | 05-29-2014 |