US 2011/0218665 A1Published application

Embroidery data generating apparatus, embroidery data generating method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing embroidery data generating program

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsTomotaka KATANO, Takashi HIRATA, Chiyo KOGA

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Abstract

An embroidery data generating apparatus that includes a pattern data acquisition device that acquires pattern data, an area identification device that identifies a base area in which a plurality of base stitches including a plurality of intersecting portions are to be formed, each of the intersecting portions being a portion at which two base stitches extending in different directions intersect, a first generating device that generates first sewing data to be used to sew the base stitches in the base area, a sewing data acquisition device that acquires second sewing data to be used to sew a pattern represented by the pattern data in an area including at least a part of the base area, and an embroidery data generating device that generates embroidery data including the first sewing data and the second sewing data.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An embroidery data generating apparatus comprising:

a pattern data acquisition device that acquires pattern data representing a pattern that is a target to generate embroidery data;
an area identification device that identifies a base area that is an area in which a plurality of base stitches are to be formed, the plurality of base stitches including a plurality of intersecting portions, each of which is a portion at which two base stitches of the plurality of base stitches intersect, the two base stitches extending in directions different from each other;
a first generating device that generates first sewing data to be used to sew the plurality of base stitches in the base area identified by the area identification device;
a sewing data acquisition device that acquires second sewing data to be used to sew the pattern represented by the pattern data acquired by the pattern data acquisition device, in an area that includes at least a part of the base area identified by the area identification device;
and
an embroidery data generating device that generates embroidery data which includes the first sewing data generated by the first generating device and the second sewing data acquired by the sewing data acquisition device, and in which a sewing order of the first sewing data is set to be in advance of a sewing order of the second sewing data.

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An embroidery data generating method performed by a computer, comprising the steps of:

acquiring pattern data representing a pattern that is a target to generate embroidery data;
identifying a base area that is an area in which a plurality of base stitches are to be formed, the plurality of base stitches including a plurality of intersecting portions, each of which is a portion at which two base stitches of the plurality of base stitches intersect, the two base stitches extending in directions different from each other;
generating first sewing data to be used to sew the plurality of base stitches in the base area;
acquiring second sewing data to be used to sew the pattern represented by the pattern data in an area that includes at least a part of the base area;
and
generating embroidery data which includes the first sewing data and the second sewing data, and in which a sewing order of the first sewing data is set to be in advance of a sewing order of the second sewing data.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an embroidery data generating program, the embroidery data generating program comprising instructions, when executed, to cause a computer to perform the steps of:

acquiring pattern data representing a pattern that is a target to generate embroidery data;
identifying a base area that is an area in which a plurality of base stitches are to be formed, the plurality of base stitches including a plurality of intersecting portions, each of which is a portion at which two base stitches of the plurality of base stitches intersect, the two base stitches extending in directions different from each other;
generating first sewing data to be used to sew the plurality of base stitches in the base area;
acquiring second sewing data to be used to sew the pattern represented by the pattern data in an area that includes at least a part of the base area;
and
generating embroidery data which includes the first sewing data and the second sewing data, and in which a sewing order of the first sewing data is set to be in advance of a sewing order of the second sewing data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/026,819Filed 14 Feb 2011
Priority: JP 2010-0448282 Mar 2010
Published: 8 Sep 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

D05C 5/02
Embroidering machines with arrangements for automatic control of a series of individual steps: by electrical or magnetic control devices
D05B 19/08
Characterised by memory aspects: arrangements for inputting stitch or pattern data to memory ; Editing stitch or pattern data
D05B 19/10
Characterised by memory aspects: arrangements for selecting combinations of stitch or pattern data from memory ; Handling data in order to control…
D05B 19/12
Sewing machines having electronic memory or microprocessor control unit: characterised by control of operation of machine