US 8,301,292 B2Granted

Sewing machine and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing sewing machine control program

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorMasashi Tokura

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Abstract

A sewing machine that includes a body, an embroidery frame moving mechanism, an image capture device, a specifying device, a determining device, a setting device, a positioning device, and an acquiring device. The image capture device is provided with a function to capture a plurality of images of the sewing object under a plurality of image capture conditions, respectively. The plurality of the image capture conditions correspond to different effective image capture ranges. The specifying device specifies, as a specific range, a range on the sewing object. The determining device determines a combination of a specific image capture condition and a positioning condition. The setting device sets the specific image capture condition as an actual image capture condition. The positioning device positions the embroidery frame in accordance with the positioning condition. The acquiring device acquires image data that corresponds to a specific effective image capture range.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A sewing machine, comprising:

a body;
an embroidery frame moving mechanism that is adapted to removably hold and move an embroidery frame in relation to the body, the embroidery frame holding a sewing object;
an image capture device that is provided with a function to capture a plurality of images of the sewing object under a plurality of image capture conditions, respectively, the plurality of the image capture conditions corresponding to different effective image capture ranges, each of the effective image capture ranges being set as an effective range within a range in which the image of the sewing object is captured;
a specifying device that specifies, as a specific range, a range on the sewing object to be captured by the image capture device;
a determining device that, based on the specific range specified by the specifying device, determines a combination of a specific image capture condition and a positioning condition, the specific image capture condition being a condition for capturing at least one image that covers an entirety of the specific range and including at least one of the plurality of the image capture conditions, the positioning condition being a condition including at least one position to which the embroidery frame can be moved;
a setting device that sets the specific image capture condition that has been determined by the determining device as an actual image capture condition for the image capture device;
a positioning device that, by controlling the embroidery frame moving mechanism, positions the embroidery frame in accordance with the positioning condition that has been determined by the determining device;
and
an acquiring device that, in a state in which the actual image capture condition has been set by the setting device and the embroidery frame has been positioned by the positioning device, causes the image capture device to capture an image of the sewing object and acquires image data that corresponds to a specific effective image capture range, the specific effective image capture range being one of the effective image capture ranges and corresponding to the actual image capture condition.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a control program executable on a sewing machine, the program comprising instructions that cause a controller of the sewing machine to perform the steps of:

specifying, as a specific range, a range on the sewing object to be captured by a image capture device, the image capture device being provided with a function to capture a plurality of images of the sewing object that is held by an embroidery frame under a plurality of image capture conditions, respectively, the plurality of the image capture conditions corresponding to different effective image capture ranges, each of the effective image capture ranges being set as an effective range within a range in which the image of the sewing object is captured;
determining, based on the specific range, a combination of a specific image capture condition and a positioning condition, the specific image capture condition being a condition for capturing at least one image that covers an entirety of the specific range and including at least one of the plurality of the image capture conditions, the positioning condition being a condition including at least one position to which the embroidery frame can be moved;
setting the specific image capture condition as an actual image capture condition for the image capture device;
positioning the embroidery frame in accordance with the positioning condition, by controlling an embroidery frame moving mechanism that is adapted to removably hold and move the embroidery frame in relation to a body;
and
causing the image capture device to capture an image of the sewing object and acquiring, in a state in which the actual image capture condition for the image capture device has been set and the embroidery frame has been positioned in accordance with the positioning condition, image data that corresponds to a specific effective image capture range, the specific effective image capture range being one of the effective image capture ranges and corresponding to the actual image capture condition.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.