Abstract: Manufacturing of a shoe or a portion of a shoe is enhanced by executing various shoe-manufacturing processes in an automated fashion. For example, information describing a shoe part may be determined, such as an identification, an orientation, a color, a surface topography, an alignment, a size, etc. Based on the information describing the shoe part, automated shoe-manufacturing apparatuses may be instructed to apply various shoe-manufacturing processes to the shoe part, such as a pickup and placement of the shoe part with a pickup tool.

Abstract: An image processing method includes acquiring a first image during a first exposure time, and a second image during a second exposure time, wherein the first exposure time is smaller than the second exposure time; acquiring the image region with the luminance greater than a first threshold in the second image as a first over-exposure region; acquiring the image region located at corresponding positions of the first over-exposure region and in the first image as a second over-exposure region; comparing the second over-exposure region and the first over-exposure region, for acquiring a first moving-object region; excluding the first moving-object region from the second over-exposure region, to generate a third over-exposure region; acquiring the image region located at corresponding positions of the third over-exposure region and in the second image as a fourth over-exposure region; and combining the third over-exposure region and the fourth over-exposure region.

Abstract: A determination method for white-point and a correction method of the white balance are disclosed. In the determination method for white-point of the white balance, first gray cards with different reflection coefficients are detected according to the properties of an image sensing device. Next, the white-point gray line of a first color temperature and the white-point gray line of a second color temperature are intersected on a white-point plane to form a fan area, so as to set the white-point range of the low saturation of the image sensing device. Next, the vertical projection for an image datum is calculated to obtain a placement datum on the white-point plane, and a difference value between the image datum and the placement datum is calculated. Finally, whether the image datum is a white-point is determined according to the difference value and relationship between the placement datum and the fan area.