Footwear and Apparatus and Method for Making Same
AssigneeinStryde, Inc.
InventorMichael John Schmid
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Abstract
A customized insole can be created using an additive manufacturing process. The insole is customized to a user and their needs, including correction of a gait or posture of the user. The user can repeatedly insert and remove the insole from footwear as needed. A user can provide captured image data of their feet and/or gait and a lattice structure of the insole can be generated based thereon. The insole can include one or more functional zones, with each functional zone having different mechanical properties than another. In this manner, the insole can be customized to the user and their requirements or needs.
Claims20
A method of generating a custom insole structure, the method comprising:
- receiving one or more images of a user's foot;
- analyzing the one or more images of the user's foot to identify one or more points of interest of the user's foot;
- automatically determining one or more dimensions of the user's foot based on the identified one or more points of interest of the user's foot;
- generating a model of the custom insole structure based at least in part on the determined one or more dimensions of the user's foot;
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- applying a lattice structure to the model of the custom insole based at least in part on the determined one or more dimensions of the user's foot;
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- generating an additive manufacturing file base on the applied lattice structure to the model of the custom insole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.