Automated identification and assembly of shoe parts
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsPatrick Conall Regan, Kuo-Hung Lee, Chih-Chi Chang, Ming-Feng Jean, Chang-Chu Liao
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Abstract
Manufacturing and assembly of a shoe or a portion of a shoe is enhanced by automated placement and assembly of shoe parts. For example, a part-recognition system analyzes an image of a shoe part to identify the part and determine a location of the part. Once the part is identified and located, the part can be manipulated by an automated manufacturing tool.
Claims20
A method for automatically identifying and assembling shoe parts during a shoe-manufacturing process, the method comprising:
- capturing an image of a first shoe part;
- identifying the first shoe part in the image;
- and
- transferring, using a part-transfer tool, the identified first shoe part from a first location to a second location to position the first shoe part on a second shoe part.
A system for automatically identifying and assembling shoe parts during a shoe-manufacturing process, the system comprising:
- a camera adapted to capture an image of a first shoe part;
- and
- a computing device configured to:
- determine an identity of the first shoe part from the image, and
- direct a part-transfer tool to transfer the identified first shoe part from a first location to a second location to position the first shoe part on a second shoe part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.