Patent ID: 8406454

Claim:
A method of finishing unfinished shoes according to feet of a customer, comprising: providing a plurality of unfinished pairs of shoes in different sizes and in different styles, each having an insole outline and an inner volume defined by a shoe last from a plurality of shoe lasts in various sizes; providing sets of left and right interchangeable insole adapters insertable into the unfinished shoes; generating, for each unfinished shoe in each size, a set of volumetric weighted adaptor outlines based on the insole outline of the unfinished shoe and normalized in respect to the inner volume, wherein each outline of the set is associated with a remnant free volume impounded between a forefront top of the unfinished shoe and a surface of each of the corresponding insole adaptor; capturing a computer-readable image of each of the feet, by capturing light reflected from each foot; identifying, by image processing, from the captured images, for each customer's foot, outer foot outlines defined as outer boundaries of the foot, and inner foot outlines defined as outlines of weight-bearing areas of the foot; calculating a weighted foot outline of each foot based on the outer and inner foot outlines considering fitting factors; comparing, for each foot, the weighted foot outline to the volumetric weighted adaptor outline of a corresponding shoe of an at least one customer selected shoe style; and calculating, from the comparison, for each customer selected shoe style and for each foot, a customer shoe size and a customer insole adapter that allow a best fitting of an unfinished shoe, to the customer's foot comprising the corresponding shoe and the customer insole adapter inserted there-within, wherein the customer insole adapter is selected such as to provide the remnant free volume that allows for optimal fitting of foot volume, wherein the calculated insole adapters inserted into each shoe allow finishing the unfinished shoes such as to provide customized fitting of the finished shoes to each of the customer's feet.