Roughing System

Abstract

A roughing system includes a roughing machine and an imaging apparatus. The roughing machine roughs an upper of a shoe along a path to form a rough trace thereon. The imaging apparatus includes a camera module and a processing module. The camera module is moved parallel to the path and repeatedly captures an image of a portion of the upper having a segment of the rough trace thereon each time when one of a first condition that the camera module has been moved by a predetermined length and a second condition that the camera module has been moved for a predetermined time duration is satisfied. The processing module receives the images respectively of different portions of the upper that are sequentially captured by the camera module, and is configured to generate a panoramic image based on the images.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A roughing system comprising:
 a roughing machine configured to rough an upper of a shoe along a path so as to form a rough trace on the upper; and   an imaging apparatus including
 a camera module configured to be moved parallel to the path and to capture an image of a portion of the upper having a segment of the rough trace thereon each time when one of a first condition that said camera module has been moved by a predetermined length and a second condition that said camera module has been moved for a predetermined time duration is satisfied; and 
 a processing module electrically connected to said camera module for receiving the images respectively of different portions of the upper that are sequentially captured by said camera module, and configured to generate a panoramic image based on the images. 
   
     
     
         2 . The roughing system as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said camera module is mounted on said roughing machine, and to be moved parallel to the path as said roughing machine roughs the upper along the path. 
     
     
         3 . The roughing system as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein said roughing machine includes a robotic arm, a grinding wheel co-movably mounted on said robotic arm so that said robotic arm brings said grinding wheel to move along the path, and a motor mounted on said robotic arm for driving said grinding wheel to rotate for roughing the upper to form the rough trace,
 wherein said camera module includes a supporting frame mounted co-movably on said robotic arm where said grinding wheel is mounted, and a camera for capturing the images and co-movably mounted on said supporting frame.   
     
     
         4 . The roughing system as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said roughing machine includes a robotic arm, a grinding wheel co-movably mounted on said robotic arm so that said robotic arm brings said grinding wheel to move along the path, and a motor mounted on said robotic arm for driving said grinding wheel to rotate for roughing the upper to form the rough trace,
 wherein said camera module includes a supporting frame configured to track movement of said robotic arm where said grinding wheel is mounted so as to move parallel to the path, and a camera co-movably mounted on said supporting frame.   
     
     
         5 . The roughing system as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein said processing module is configured to extract an image portion from each of the images captured by said camera module by performing edge detection on the image, the image portion including the segment of the rough trace, said processing module further configured to combine the image portions respectively extracted from the images to generate the panoramic image. 
     
     
         6 . The roughing system as claimed in  claim 5 , wherein said processing module is configured to combine the image portions by sequentially stitching the image portions in an order of the images being captured by said image capturing unit to generate the panoramic image. 
     
     
         7 . The roughing system as claimed in  claim 1 , further comprising a display unit communicatively connected to said processing module for displaying the panoramic image generated by said processing module.