Embroidery sewing machine and embroidery pattern data editing device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiyuki Uyama, Akihiro Wakayama
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Abstract
When a handy scanner 8 reads a standard sewing designation mark 45 drawn in advance on a work sheet 39 held by an embroidery frame 34, the sewing data on an embroidery pattern to be sewn can be edited so that the position and direction and the pattern size at the time the embroidery pattern is actually sewn on the work sheet 39 correspond to the position and direction and the pattern size indicated by the standard mark 45. Accordingly, the sewing data can be simply edited only if the work sheet 39 is set in the embroidery frame 34, without manual operations, resulting in a large improvement of the efficiency of sewing work.
Claims26
An embroidery sewing machine including:
- an embroidery frame which holds a work sheet on which a sewing designation mark has been drawn in advance;
- a pattern data memory which stores pattern data on a plurality of embroidery patterns;
- an image reading device for reading the sewing designation mark drawn on the work sheet;
- means for analyzing image data of the sewing designation mark read by the image reading device to determine at least one of a first sewing position and a first sewing direction of an embroidery pattern to be sewed on the work sheet;
- means for editing the pattern data, prior to sewing of the embroidery pattern on the work sheet based on the pattern data read from the pattern data memory, so that one of a second sewing position and a second sewing direction of the embroidery pattern in the pattern data corresponds to one of the first sewing position and the first sewing direction of the embroidery pattern determined by the mark analysis means;
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- a sewing device which sews the embroidery pattern on the work sheet held in the embroidery frame based on the pattern data edited by the edit means.
An embroidery pattern data editing device including:
- a pattern data memory which stores pattern data on a plurality of embroidery patterns;
- an image reading device for reading a sewing designation mark that has been drawn in advance on a work sheet held in an embroidery frame;
- means for analyzing image data of the sewing designation mark read by the image reading device to determine at least one of a first sewing position and a first sewing direction of an embroidery pattern to be sewed on the work sheet;
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- means for editing the pattern data, prior to sewing of the embroidery pattern on the work sheet based on the pattern data read from the pattern data memory, so that one of a second sewing position and a second sewing direction of the embroidery pattern in the pattern data corresponds to one of the first sewing position and the first sewing direction of the embroidery pattern determined by the mark analysis means.
An embroidery sewing machine including:
- an embroidery frame which holds a work sheet on which a sewing designation mark has been drawn in advance;
- a pattern data memory which stores pattern data on a plurality of embroidery patterns;
- an image reading device for reading the sewing designation mark drawn on the work sheet;
- means for analyzing image data of the sewing designation mark read by the image reading device to determine a first sewing position, a first sewing direction, and a pattern size of an embroidery pattern to be sewed on the work sheet;
- means for editing the pattern data, prior to sewing of the embroidery pattern on the work sheet based on the pattern data read from the pattern data memory, so that a second sewing position, a second sewing direction of the embroidery pattern, and a pattern size in the pattern data respectively corresponds to the first sewing position, the first sewing direction, and the pattern size of the embroidery pattern determined by the mark analysis means;
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- a sewing device which sews the embroidery pattern on the work sheet held in the embroidery frame based on the pattern data edited by the edit means.
An embroidery pattern data editing memory medium used for editing pattern data of a plurality of embroidery patterns, said memory medium storing:
- a mark analysis program for analyzing image data of a sewing designation mark read by an image reading device to determine at least one of a first sewing position and a first sewing direction of an embroidery pattern to be sewed on the work sheet, the sewing designation mark having been drawn in advance on a work sheet held in an embroidery frame;
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- a pattern data edit program for editing the pattern data, prior to sewing of the embroidery pattern on the work sheet based on the pattern data read from the pattern data memory, so that one of a second sewing position and a second sewing direction of the embroidery pattern in the pattern data corresponds to one of the first sewing position and the first sewing direction of the embroidery pattern determined in accordance with the mark analysis program.
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