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AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiko Kawaguchi, Toshihiro Hanai, Masahiko Nagai, Tomoyasu Niizeki, Masashi Tokura, Shinichi Nishida, Noboru Mizuno
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A sewing machine includes a sewing controller that controls sewing machine components, an imaging element capable of capturing facial images of a sewing machine user; a settings storage that stores settings for preset modes, the settings comprising items pertaining to sewing machine functions; a user information storage that stores facial image data of the user captured by the imaging element with mapping to the settings of the mode registered with the user; a verifier that verifies whether or not image data that matches the facial image data captured by the imaging element at sewing operation start exists in the user information storage; and an instruction controller that reads the settings from the user information storage when receiving a positive verification result from the verifier, and that instructs the sewing controller to control the sewing machine components based on the settings read.
A sewing machine, comprising:
A computer readable medium storing a control program for use in a sewing machine including a sewing controller that controls a plurality of sewing machine components, an imaging element capable of capturing facial images of a sewing machine user, and data storage that stores settings for a plurality of preset modes, the settings comprising a plurality of items pertaining to a plurality of sewing machine functions, the control program, comprising:
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