Method of sewing a fabric piece onto another fabric piece based on image detection
AssigneeZeng Hsing Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsKun-Lung HSU, Hsin-Hau LIN
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Abstract
A appliqué method includes: acquiring a first image of a first fabric piece; performing edge detection on the first image to acquire a plurality of edge points of the first fabric piece; calculating, for each of the edge points, coordinates of the edge point in a coordinate system corresponding to a computerized embroidery machine; and embroidering the first fabric piece onto a second fabric piece along an embroidering path formed by the coordinates of the edge points in the coordinate system.
Claims14
A method of sewing a first fabric piece onto a second fabric piece which is larger than the first fabric piece, said method being implemented by a computerized embroidery system and comprising:
- acquiring, by a camera apparatus of the computerized embroidery system, a first image of the first fabric piece, the first image corresponding to a first coordinate system, the computerized embroidery system including a computerized embroidery machine which has a second coordinate system;
- performing, by a computer device of the computerized embroidery system, edge detection on the first image to acquire a plurality of edge points of the first fabric piece in the first image;
- calculating for each of the edge points, by the computer device, coordinates of the edge point in the second coordinate system based on the first and second coordinate systems;
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- embroidering, by the computerized embroidery machine, the first fabric piece onto the second fabric piece along an embroidering path formed by the coordinates of the edge points in the second coordinate system.
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