US Patent Issued to PERFITT on Feb. 25 for "Method for measuring foot size and shape by using image processing" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,572, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to PERFITT INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for measuring foot size and shape by using image processing" was invented by Steena Sun Yong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Ye Ji Choi (Gwangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring information of a foot, the method includes: acquiring an image captured by simultaneously photographing a user's foot and an item having a standardized size; and calculating information of the user's foot from the image. The calculating the information of the user's foot from the image includes: calculating positions of vertices of the item f...