Footwear Designing Tool
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Abstract
Computer based systems and methods for designing (e.g., customization) of consumer products, articles of footwear, knit footwear uppers, and the like. In some embodiments, a user may generate and/or modify footwear designs using a footwear design interface. Additionally or alternatively, the footwear design interface may be configured to simulate the layout and/or operation of a knitting machine to provide the user with the impression of physically designing and/or manufacturing an article of footwear. In other embodiments, the system may disallow prospective footwear design changes based on limitations associated with inventory availability and the footwear design characteristics.
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21 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A method, comprising:
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obtaining, by a first computing device, a data file indicating a base knit footwear design; determining, by the first computing device, a plurality of zones of the base knit footwear design, obtaining, by the first computing device, input data assigning one or more knit structures to one or more zones of the base knit footwear design; rendering, via an interface and based on the input data, a rendering of a custom knit footwear design; and providing, by the first computing device, to one or more other computing devices, manufacturing data created based at least on the custom knit footwear design, wherein the one or more other computing devices control one or more knitting machines, based on the manufacturing data, to manufacture a knitted footwear product. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:
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obtain a data file indicating a base knit footwear design; determine a plurality of zones of the base knit footwear design, obtain input data assigning one or more knit structures to one or more zones of the base knit footwear design; render, via an interface and based on the input data, a rendering of a custom knit footwear design; and providing to one or more other computing devices, manufacturing data created based at least on the custom knit footwear design, wherein the one or more other computing devices control one or more knitting machines, based on the manufacturing data, to manufacture a knitted footwear product. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An apparatus comprising:
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one or more processors; and memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to; obtain a data file indicating a base knit footwear design; determine a plurality of zones of the base knit footwear design, obtain input data assigning one or more knit structures to one or more zones of the base knit footwear design; render, via an interface and based on the input data, a rendering of a custom knit footwear design; and providing to one or more other computing devices, manufacturing data created based at least on the custom knit footwear design, wherein the one or more other computing devices control one or more knitting machines, based on the manufacturing data, to manufacture a knitted footwear product. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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