Abstract: A shoe comprises a flexible shell having an internal space and a sole body accommodated in the shell. The shell includes a bottom wall portion and a peripheral wall portion. The bottom wall portion and a portion of the peripheral wall portion adjacent to the bottom wall portion define a lower space which is a space of the internal space in which the sole body is disposed. A portion of the peripheral wall portion located above the portion adjacent to the bottom wall portion forms an upper space of the internal space that is a space in which the wearer's foot is inserted. The bottom wall portion covers a lower surface of the sole body and thus has an external surface configuring a tread of the shoe.

Abstract: A data generating apparatus generates shoe last data for manufacturing a shoe from measured foot shape data. The data generating apparatus includes: an input unit that receives the foot shape data; a processor that computes the shoe last data from the foot shape data received by the input unit; and an output unit that outputs the shoe last data computed by the processor. The input unit further receives selected additional information. The processor specifies a portion of the shoe last data to be corrected, based on the additional information, and calculates an amount of correction of the specified portion based on the additional information.

Abstract: A virtual fitting apparatus is provided with a user information acquiring unit, a wearing item information acquiring unit, a prediction condition acquiring unit, a prediction unit, and an output unit. The user information acquiring unit acquires physical information on a user. The wearing item information acquiring unit acquires wearing item information related to characteristics of a predetermined wearing item. The prediction condition acquiring unit acquires, as a prediction condition, information related to a situation in which a predetermined exercise is performed. The prediction unit predicts, based on the physical information, the wearing item information, and the prediction condition, a user state resulting when the user does the predetermined exercise by wearing the predetermined wearing item. The output unit outputs information related to the predicted user state.

Abstract: Footwear includes a footbed including a cushioning portion configured of a three-dimensional mesh structure body with multiple unit structures repeatedly arranged to be adjacent to one another. In one aspect, the occupied volume ratio of the cushioning portion is larger in a medial forefoot area than a lateral forefoot area, is larger in a medial midfoot area than a lateral midfoot area, is larger in a medial rearfoot area than a lateral rearfoot area, is smaller in the medial forefoot area than the medial midfoot area, is smaller in the lateral forefoot area than the lateral midfoot area, is equal in the medial midfoot area and the medial rearfoot area or is smaller in the medial midfoot area than the medial rearfoot area.

Abstract: To provide a computer-executed order supporting method of supporting an order of a predetermined product including any one of clothing, footwear, accessories, and a product utilized to conform to a part of a body. The method includes acquiring product shape information relating to a product shape of the predetermined product, generating, based on the product shape information, simplified shape information indicating a simplified shape of the predetermined product, the simplified shape information allowing for calculation of manufacturing condition information relating to a manufacturing condition of the predetermined product, in a manufacturing section that manufactures the predetermined product, and outputting the simplified shape information.

Abstract: A last production assisting apparatus comprises a camera, a storage, a processor, and a display. The camera images a plurality of parts constituting a last. The storage stores production information for producing the last. Based on the production information, the processor calculates attachment positions or the like for the plurality of parts imaged by the camera. The display displays the attachment positions calculated by the processor for the plurality of parts.

Abstract: An order support apparatus enables ordering products based on consideration of impact of manufacturing the products on environment. The order support apparatus includes a request information acquisition unit, a candidate extraction unit, a manufacturing condition generation unit, and an output unit. The request information acquisition unit acquires request information of a user relating to a product and manufacture of the product. The candidate extraction unit extracts, based on the request information acquired by the request information acquisition unit, candidate sections capable of manufacturing the product, from predetermined manufacturing sections. The manufacturing condition generation unit generates manufacturing conditions of the candidate sections, including environmental indicators relating to impacts of the candidate sections extracted by the candidate extraction unit on environment. The output unit outputs the manufacturing conditions generated by the manufacturing condition generation unit.

Abstract: A review presentation system that receives a selection of a service or a product that a user has not previously purchased or used, receives user information and user perception, generates, based on the user information and the user perception, a provisional review sentence for the selected service or product using a prediction model to simulate the provisional review sentence as if written by the user, and presents, to the user, the generated provisional review sentence and the selected service or product. The user information includes the user's attributes and the user's preferences. The user perception includes results from a comprehensive survey previously given to the user.

Abstract: Provided are an insole designing apparatus, an insole designing method, and a program for use in designing an insole replaceable with and used instead of an insole currently used in footwear. The insole designing apparatus designs the insole of the footwear. The insole designing apparatus includes: an input device that receives an input of data; a processing circuitry that calculates design data of the insole based on the data received by the input device; and an output device that outputs the design data calculated by the processing circuitry. The data received by the input device at least includes first data associated with a user's foot shape and second data associated with an inside of the footwear. The processing circuitry calculates the design data based on the first data and the second data.

Abstract: An upper is used for a shoe. The upper includes a main body portion located on an upper side of the shoe and a bottom surface portion connected to the main body portion at at least a part of an outer periphery of the main body portion. The main body portion is seamless and in a shape having an inner periphery on an inner side of the outer periphery. The shoe includes the upper that includes the main body portion that is seamless and is in the shape having the inner periphery on the inner side of the outer periphery and a sole provided on a bottom surface portion side of the upper.

Abstract: A body shape analysis device, includes a model storage unit to store three-dimensional homologous models for body shapes with a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature of a body, a measurement data acquirer to acquire, as measurement data, a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature corresponding to the three-dimensional homologous model of a body shape of a measurement subject, and an evaluation determination unit to determine, among the three-dimensional homologous models, a three-dimensional homologous model similar to a body shape of the measurement subject by evaluating similarity in coordinates between a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature in the measurement data and a three-dimensional coordinate group indicating an anatomical feature in each of the three-dimensional homologous models.

Abstract: An upper is used for a shoe. The upper includes a main body portion located on an upper side of the shoe and a bottom surface portion connected to the main body portion at at least a part of an outer periphery of the main body portion. The main body portion is seamless and in a shape having an inner periphery on an inner side of the outer periphery. The shoe includes the upper that includes the main body portion that is seamless and is in the shape having the inner periphery on the inner side of the outer periphery and a sole provided on a bottom surface portion side of the upper.

Abstract: A last includes a base part including a bottom and a plurality of additional parts, each of which is formed in a plate shape and is capable of being assembled to the base part. The base part includes a mounting unit and a first forming surface. The plurality of additional parts include a second forming surface. Each additional part has an end face. The second forming surface includes the end face of each of the plurality of additional parts. The base part includes a first base member including a mounting unit and a second base member attachable to and detachable from the first base member.

Abstract: A shoe sole includes a sole body portion and a plate portion. The sole body portion is located to continuously extend from a front foot portion to a rear foot portion. The plate portion is located to continuously extend from the front foot portion to the rear foot portion, joined to the sole body portion, and formed of a material higher in rigidity than a material forming the sole body portion. The plate portion includes an exposed region and an accommodated region. The exposed region forms a ground contact surface of the shoe sole at least in the front foot portion. The accommodated region is accommodated inside the sole body portion at least in the rear foot portion. In at least a part of the middle foot portion and at least a part of the rear foot portion, the plate portion is inclined upward as it extends rearward.

Abstract: A plate includes: a curved portion located in a forefoot region and shaped to curve toward a flat plane; a midfoot supporting portion located in a midfoot region; and a rear-foot supporting portion located in a rear foot region. The curved portion has a wide region including a wide portion of which dimension in a width direction is largest in the curved portion. The midfoot supporting portion has a narrow region including a narrow portion of which dimension in the width direction is smallest in the midfoot supporting portion. A ratio of a bending rigidity of the narrow region to a bending rigidity of the wide region is 0.4 or more and 0.85 or less.

Abstract: A data generating apparatus includes: an input unit that receives foot shape data; a processor that computes shoe last data from the foot shape data received by the input unit; and an output unit that outputs the shoe last data computed by the processor. The processor further computes processing data for processing a member that forms an upper of a shoe, based on the computed shoe last data. The output unit further outputs the processing data computed by the processor.

Abstract: A sole includes: a sole body; an elastic portion disposed adjacent to the sole body; a surrounding member that surrounds the elastic portion, and a pressing member. Tensile rigidity of the surrounding member in a thickness direction is higher than compression rigidity of the elastic portion in the thickness direction and higher than compression rigidity of the surrounding member in the thickness direction. An uncompressed thickness of the elastic portion in an uncompressed state is larger than an initial thickness of the surrounding member in an initial state. A reference thickness of the elastic portion and the surrounding member in an unloaded state is smaller than the uncompressed thickness of the elastic portion and larger than the initial thickness of the surrounding member.

Abstract: In a mental/physical state evaluation system, a motion information acquirer acquires information indicating a motion state of a subject who repeatedly performs a predetermined body motion. A reproducibility evaluator determines a reproducibility evaluation value on the basis of an analysis result regarding the reproducibility of the predetermined body motion. A mental information acquirer acquires information indicating the mental state of the subject. A mental evaluator determines a mental evaluation value on the basis of an analysis result regarding the mental state of the subject. An evaluation value storage stores the reproducibility evaluation value and the mental evaluation value in association with each other. A result outputter outputs information indicating the relevance between the mental evaluation value and the quality of the reproducibility evaluation value.

Abstract: A sock liner designing apparatus, a sock liner designing method and a recording medium for a recording program are provided that are used to design sock liners that enable functions of footwear desired by a user to be attained when the user wears the footwear. A sock liner designing apparatus includes: an input circuitry that receives an input of measured foot data; a processor that calculates design data of a sock liner based on the foot data received through the input circuitry; and an output circuitry that outputs the design data calculated by the processor. The processor adjusts the design data based on a difference between received footwear functions and footwear data.