Patent ID: 7742633

Claim:
A method for reconstructing and measuring the three dimensional surface model of a foot, based on an apparatus comprising with one computer, one display device, at least six image capture devices connected with the computer and installed on the platform and geometrically calibrated, and a program implemented in the computer to capture images and reconstruct the 3D surface model, the method comprising: wearing a thin and elastic sock printed with digitized codes on the foot of a person; placing the foot of the person on the transparent plate of the platform; using two image capture devices under the transparent plate and other at least four ones around the foot above the platform to capture the images of the foot from the multi-view angles under and above the foot; finding the same digitized codes as corresponding points for stereosis in every two images captured by the adjacent image capturing devices; calibrating the world coordinate positions of the corresponding points by using stereosis algorithms based on the calibration parameters of the image capture device; and reconstructing the three dimensional surface model and dimensions of the person's foot.