Method for adjusting comfort level of helmet and information processing apparatus for adjustment

• US 10,235,801 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2017
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shoei Co Ltd
• Original Assignee: Shoei Co Ltd
• Inventors: Ebisawa, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): McCulley, Ryan
• Application Number:
  US15/488,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20170301131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A42B 3/125 with a padded structure, e.g. foam
• CPC Class Codes: A42C 2/007 Manufacturing custom-sized helmets
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/10 Constructive solid geometry [CSG] using solid primitives, e.g. cylinders, cubes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/2004 Aligning objects, relative positioning of parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2219/2012 Colour editing, changing, or manipulating; Use of colour codes

Abstract

A method for adjusting the comfort level of a helmet includes the steps of acquiring head shape data by measuring a three-dimensional shape of a head of a wearer of a helmet, inputting inner surface shape data showing a three-dimensional shape of a helmet inner surface, acquiring space information showing a space between the head and the helmet inner surface on the basis of the head shape data and the inner surface shape data, and displaying additional images showing the space information on a display part by superimposing the additional images on i) a shape image showing the inner surface shape data or ii) the shape image showing the head shape data and the inner surface shape data.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting a comfort level of a helmet, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring head shape data by measuring a three-dimensional shape of a head of a wearer of a helmet;

inputting inner surface shape data showing a three-dimensional shape of a helmet inner surface;

acquiring space information showing a space between the wearer'"'"'s head and the helmet inner surface on the basis of the head shape data and the inner surface shape data; and

displaying additional images showing the space information on a display part by superimposing the additional images on i) a shape image showing the inner surface shape data or ii) the shape image showing the head shape data and the inner surface shape data, wherein

the displaying step displays, as the additional images, a contour shape of a first pad to be attached to the helmet inner surface and border lines indicating an attachment site for each pad of a plurality of layered pads to be superimposed over the first pad in the shape image, in which the border lines divide an inside of the contour shape into a plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of layered pads according to a size of the space.

2. The method for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 1, the method further comprising the steps of:

specifying a form of a pad to be added to the helmet inner surface on the basis of the additional image displayed on the display part; and

attaching a pad corresponding to the form that is specified in the specifying step to a predetermined attachment site in the helmet inner surface.

3. The method for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 2, wherein

the pad to be attached to the helmet inner surface is previously determined for each attachment site of the helmet inner surface , and

the specifying step specifies the number of the pads to be layered having a predetermined thickness and a cutting shape to be cut from the pad with a reference shape for each attachment site.

4. The method for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 1, wherein

the specifying step specifies a cutting shape to be cut from the pad with a reference shape on the basis of the contour shape and the border line.

5. The method for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 1, wherein

the displaying step displays an image in a form for distinguishing the size of the space with respect to the whole surface of the head as the additional image.

6. The method for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 5, wherein

the displaying step displays an image as the additional image by making at least one of the type of color and color shading different according to the size of the space.

7. The method for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 1, the method further comprising the steps of:

adjusting display positions of the head shape image and the inner surface shape image so that the head shape image shown by the head shape data and the inner surface shape image shown by the inner surface shape data are overlapped on the display part , wherein

the space information acquisition step acquires the space information on the basis of i) the inner surface shape image or ii) the head shape image and the inner surface shape image whose display positions are adjusted in the position adjustment step.

8. The method for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 1, wherein

the inner surface shape input step inputs inner surface shape data obtained by a measurement device measuring the three-dimensional shape of the inner surface of the helmet, the measuring device measuring the three-dimensional shape of the wearer'"'"'s head.

9. An information processing apparatus for adjusting a comfort level of a helmet comprising:

a storage that stores head shape data showing a three-dimensional shape of a head of a wearer of a helmet and inner surface shape data showing a three-dimensional shape of a helmet inner surface, the head shape data and the inner surface shape data being measured by a measurement device; and

a processor that acquires space information showing a space between the wearer'"'"'s head and the helmet inner surface on the basis of the head shape data and the inner surface shape data stored in the storage and

displays additional images showing the space information on a display part by superposing the additional images on i) the shape image showing the inner surface shape data or ii) the shape image showing the head shape data and the inner surface shape data, wherein

the processor is configured to control a display to display, as the additional images, a contour shape of a first pad to be attached to the helmet inner surface and border lines indicating an attachment site for each pad of a plurality of layered pads to be superimposed over the first pad in the shape image, in which the border lines divide an inside of the contour shape into a plurality of regions corresponding to the plurality of layered pads according to a size of the space.

10. The information processing apparatus for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 9, wherein

the processor displays an image as the additional image in a form for distinguishing the size of the space with respect to the whole surface of the wearer'"'"'s head.

11. The information processing apparatus for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 10, wherein

the processor displays an image of which at least one of a type of color and color shading are made different according to the size of the space as the additional image.

12. The information processing apparatus for adjusting the comfort level of the helmet according to claim 9, wherein

the processor adjusts display positions of the head shape image and the inner surface shape image so that the head shape image shown by the head shape data and the inner surface shape image shown by the inner surface shape data are overlapped on the display part

and acquires the space information on the basis of i) the shape image showing the inner surface shape data or ii) the shape image showing the head shape data and the inner surface shape data whose display positions are adjusted.