System and method for manufacturing custom-made footwear using internet

Abstract

The custom-made footwear manufacturing system and method using Internet may rapidly and simply realize the footwear comfortable and suitable for a customer. The system includes, in a circumstance where the data transmission through Internet is possible, a shape measuring unit for extracting shape information of a customer foot, a data transmitting unit for transmitting the extracted shape information to a footwear manufacturer through Internet, a data receiving unit for receiving the transmitted data, a storage unit for storing the received shape information, a shoelast design unit to generate a 3-dimensional shape model of the custom-fitted shoelast suitable for the customer by extracting foot shape information of the customer from the storage unit, generating a 3-dimensional shape model of the foot and mixing it with the 3-dimensional shape model of the standard shoelast, a shoe upper cover pattern design unit for determining an shoe upper cover pattern, and a shoelast manufacturing unit for manufacturing the custom-fitted shoelast from its 3-dimensional shape model.

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