US 6,983,193 B2 | ||
Apparatus and program stored on a computer readable medium for processing embroidery data | ||
Masahiro Mizuno, Nagoya (Japan); Yukiyoshi Muto, Nagoya (Japan); Mikitoshi Suzuki, Nagoya (Japan); Shoichi Taguchi, Nagoya (Japan); and Akihiro Wakayama, Nagoya (Japan) | ||
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (Japan) | ||
Filed on Feb. 01, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/46,760. | ||
Claims priority of application No. 2004-100640 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2004. | ||
Prior Publication US 2005/0234584 A1, Oct. 20, 2005 | ||
Int. Cl. G06F 19/00 (2006.01); D05C 5/02 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 700—138 | 25 Claims |
1. An apparatus for processing embroidery data including a control unit which manipulates embroidery data by which the sewing
of an embroidery pattern is performed using an embroidery sewing machine,
wherein the control unit comprises:
a processor which performs the following process comprising:
a process of obtaining partition information for dividing the embroidery data into a plurality of partitions, based on a predetermined
area of sewing which is determined, depending on the type of an embroidery frame specified by selecting the type of the embroidery
frame;
a process of making embroidery data subdivisions by dividing the embroidery data into subdivisions, according to the partition
information; and
a process of generating partition position information that indicates the position of the embroidery data subdivisions in
the whole embroidery data; and
a display device which displays a pattern layout and the location of an embroidery data subdivision in the whole embroidery
data, based on the partition position information for the embroidery data subdivisions.
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