Device for producing embroidery data on the basis of image data
AssigneeJanome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakayuki Kawasato, Shinichi Fuchigami, Haruhiko Tanaka, Yoshitaka Takahashi
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Abstract
Disclosed is a device for producing embroidery stitch data on the basis of image data, wherein an image is read in by use of an image scanner and is divided into a plurality of latticed sections. The latticed sections are all searched through one after another and discriminated if each of the sections is stitched or not. Unit stitch patterns are selected to be stitched in the sections respectively which have been discriminated to be stitched, the selected unit stitch patterns including at most two patterns which have different initial stitch points and different end stitch points and are located in predetermined sections respectively.
Claims10
An embroidery data producing device comprising:
- (a) means for giving data representing an image to be stitched;
- (b) means for dividing said image into a plurality of sections which contain parts of the image;
- (c) means for searching each of said divided sections to discriminate if each of said divided sections is stitched or not;
- (d) means for deciding an order for sequentially stitching said sections which have been discriminated to be stitched;
- (e) means for providing stitch data for a plurality of different unit stitch patterns to be stitched in said sections respectively which have been discriminated to be stitched, said unit stitch patterns including a plurality of unit stitch patterns having different initial stitch point and different end stitch point respectively in said sections;
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- (f) means for selecting stitch data for one of said unit stitch patterns which is to be stitched in said sections which have been discriminated to be stitched.
An embroidery data producing device comprising:
- (a) means for giving data representing an image to be stitched;
- (b) means for dividing said image into a plurality of sections which contain parts of the image;
- (c) means for searching each of said divided sections to discriminate if each of said sections is stitched or not;
- (d) means for providing stitch data for a plurality of different unit stitch patterns to be stitched in said sections respectively which have been discriminated to be stitched, said unit stitch patterns including a plurality of unit stitch patterns having different initial stitch point and end stitch point respectively in said sections;
- (e) means for selecting stitch data for at least two different unit stitch patterns of said plurality of different unit stitch patterns in said sections which have been discriminated to be stitched;
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- (f) means for processing said selected stitch data for said at least two different unit stitch patterns such that only one of said selected stitch data may be effective for stitching only one of said two different unit stitch patterns in any of said sections which have been discriminated to be stitched when said at least two different unit stitch patterns have been discriminated to be stitched in the same sections respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.