Smartphone-controlled active configuration of footwear, including with one or more of chambers, compartments, bladders and internal sipes

摘要

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, having encoded thereon an app for a smartphone or mobile computer device. The app causes the device to actively control a configuration of one or more bladders, compartments, chambers or internal sipes located in a footwear sole or a removable inner sole insert of both right and left shoes or other footwear of a user of the device. One or more sensors are provided in the footwear soles or the removable inner sole insert of both of the right and left shoes or other footwear of the device user and at least one sensor including a gyroscope and/or an accelerometer in the device. Instructions of the app cause the device to process data from the sensors of the shoes or other footwear and at least one sensor in the device, and use the processed data to cause alteration of the configuration.

主权项

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, having encoded thereon an app for a smartphone or another mobile computer device, general purpose or specialized, said app, when executed by said smartphone or another mobile computer device, causes the device to actively control, by a wired or wireless connection, a configuration of:
one or more bladders, compartments, chambers or internal sipes with computer control located in a footwear sole or a removable inner sole insert of both right and left shoes or other footwear of a user of the device, and wherein one or more sensors is located in both of the footwear soles or the removable inner sole insert of both of the right and left shoes or other footwear of the device user and at least one sensor including a gyroscope and/or an accelerometer is located in the device; and the one or more bladders, compartments, chambers or internal sipes being configured for computer control by the device when the app is operating on the device; and wherein instructions of the app, when executed, cause the device to: first, process measurement data received from the one or more sensors of both of the shoes or other footwear soles and from at least one said sensor in the device, and second, use the processed measurement data to cause alteration of the configuration of one or more of the bladders, compartments, chambers or internal sipes.