US 9,283,687 B2Granted

Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable medium

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsYoko Yamanashi, Mika Matsushima, Masayuki Hori

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Abstract

An apparatus includes an information obtaining device configured to obtain information representing an optionally designated position on an object, a projector, a processing device, a pattern specifying device and a control device. The control device is configured to cause the apparatus to specify two designated positions on an object based on information obtained by the information obtaining device, to change a size of a specified pattern according to a distance between the specified designated positions, to cause the projector to project a marker onto the object in a size matched with the changed size of the pattern, based on the specified designated positions on the object, to determine a cutting or printing position of the pattern based on the specified designated positions on the object and to control the processing device to perform cutting or printing of the pattern in the changed size at the determined cutting or printing positions.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a pattern specifying device configured to specify a pattern to be cut out of an object or to be printed on the object;
a projector configured to project a marker onto the object, the marker corresponding to the specified pattern;
a processing device configured to cut the object or print on the object based on the specified pattern;
an information obtaining device configured to obtain information representing an optionally designated position on the object;
and
a control device configured to cause the apparatus to:
specify two designated positions of the marker projected onto the object, based on the information obtained by the information obtaining device;
change a size of the specified pattern according to a distance between the two specified designated positions of the marker projected onto the object;
cause the projector to project the marker onto the object in a size matched with the changed size of the pattern, based on the two specified designated positions of the marker projected onto the object;
and
control the processing device to cut the object or print on the object based on the specified pattern with the changed size.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium for an apparatus comprising:

a pattern specifying device configured to specify a pattern to be cut out of an object or to be printed on the object;
a projector configured to project a marker onto the object, the marker corresponding to the specified pattern;
a processing device configured to cut the object or print on the object based on the specified pattern;
an information obtaining device configured to obtain information representing an optionally designated position on the object;
and
a control device storing computer-readable instructions, which, when executed by the control device, cause the apparatus to:
specify two designated positions of the marker projected onto the object, based on the information obtained by the information obtaining device;
change a size of the specified pattern according to a distance between the two specified designated positions of the marker projected onto the object;
cause the projector to project the marker onto the object in a size matched with the changed size of the pattern, based on the two specified designated positions of the marker projected onto the object;
and
control the processing device to cut the object or print on the object based on the specified pattern with the changed size.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/288,072Filed 27 May 2014
Priority: JP 2013-11186828 May 2013
Published: US 2014/0352511 A14 Dec 2014
Granted: 15 Mar 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

B26D 5/005
Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by…
B26F 1/3813
Wherein relative movements of tool head and work during cutting have a component tangential to the work surface: wherein the tool head is moved in…
G05B 19/409
Numerical control [NC], i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to…
B26D 7/2614
Means for mounting or adjusting the cutting member; Means for adjusting the stroke of the cutting member: means for mounting the cutting member