System and method for generating a pattern from an image
OwnerThomas M. Carrollinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating a pattern for making rugs corresponding to a predefined image. The predefined image is scanned by a video camera to generate a video image corresponding to the predefined image. A frame grabber captures one frame of the video image. The captured image is isolated and compressed by a CPU into a compressed image corrresponding to the video image and having a limited number of subareas, each subarea having a color. The CPU compares the color of each subarea to the colors in a look-up table to define a 48-color image. A printer creates from the 48-color image the pattern corresponding to the predefined image and an inventory identifying the numbers and colors of yarns needs to make a rug from the pattern.
Claims35
A system for generating a rug pattern corresponding to a predefined image comprising:
- means for scanning the predefined image and generating a video image corresponding to the predefined image;
- means for compressing the video image into a compressed image corresponding to the video image;
- means for creating from the compressed image said rug pattern corresponding to the predefined image;
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- means for specifying an inventory of individual rug yarns needed for attachment to a rug canvas in order to make a rug corresponding to said rug pattern.
A method of generating a rug pattern corresponding to a predefined image comprising the steps of:
- scanning the predefined image;
- generating a video image corresponding to the scanned predefined image;
- compressing the video image into a compressed image corresponding to the video image;
- creating from the compressed image said rug pattern corresponding to the predefined image;
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- specifying an inventory of individual rug yarns needed for attachment to a rug canvas in order to make a rug corresponding to said rug pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.