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
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.