System and method for generating a pattern from an image
First Claim
1. A system for generating a rug pattern corresponding to a predefined image comprising:
- means for scanning the predefined image and generating a video image corresponding to the predefined image;
means for compressing the video image into a compressed image corresponding to the video image;
means for creating from the compressed image said rug pattern corresponding to the predefined image; and
means for specifying an inventory of individual rug yarns needed for attachment to a rug canvas in order to make a rug corresponding to said rug pattern.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating a pattern for making rugs corresponding to a predefined image. The predefined image is scanned by a video camera to generate a video image corresponding to the predefined image. A frame grabber captures one frame of the video image. The captured image is isolated and compressed by a CPU into a compressed image corrresponding to the video image and having a limited number of subareas, each subarea having a color. The CPU compares the color of each subarea to the colors in a look-up table to define a 48-color image. A printer creates from the 48-color image the pattern corresponding to the predefined image and an inventory identifying the numbers and colors of yarns needs to make a rug from the pattern.
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35 Claims
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1. A system for generating a rug pattern corresponding to a predefined image comprising:
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means for scanning the predefined image and generating a video image corresponding to the predefined image; means for compressing the video image into a compressed image corresponding to the video image; means for creating from the compressed image said rug pattern corresponding to the predefined image; and means for specifying an inventory of individual rug yarns needed for attachment to a rug canvas in order to make a rug corresponding to said rug pattern. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of generating a rug pattern corresponding to a predefined image comprising the steps of:
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scanning the predefined image; generating a video image corresponding to the scanned predefined image; compressing the video image into a compressed image corresponding to the video image; creating from the compressed image said rug pattern corresponding to the predefined image; and specifying an inventory of individual rug yarns needed for attachment to a rug canvas in order to make a rug corresponding to said rug pattern. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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