Embroidery data producing device and embroidery data producing control program

• US 7,079,917 B2
• Filed: 03/25/2005
• Issued: 07/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Mizuno, Masahiro, Suzuki, Mikitoshi, Taguchi, Shoichi, Muto, Yukiyoshi, Wakayama, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): WORRELL JR, LARRY D
• Application Number:
  US11/090,840
• Publication Number:
  US 20050228532A1
• Time in Patent Office: 480 Days
• Field of Search: 700/138, 112/102.5, 112/475.19, 112/470.06
• US Class Current: 700/138
• CPC Class Codes: D05B 19/08 Arrangements for inputting stitch or pattern data to memory ; Editing stitch or pattern data

Abstract

An embroidery data producing device includes an area information input unit for inputting area information indicating first and second areas to be embroidered, at least a part of the second area being overlapped inside the first area, a first setting unit for setting a first stitch type for one of the first and second areas, a second setting unit for setting a second stitch type different from the first stitch type for the other area than the area set by the first setting unit, and an embroidery data producing unit for producing first and second embroidery data based on the stitch types set by the first and second setting unit, respectively, the first embroidery data being used to embroider the first area except for its part on which the second area is overlapped, the second embroidery data being produced to embroider the second area.

Claims

1. An embroidery data producing device for producing embroidery data for embroidering by an embroidery sewing machine, the embroidery data producing device comprising:

area information input means for inputting area information indicating first and second areas, the first area including a first embroidery area and an overlap area, the second area including a second embroidery area that overlaps the first area at the overlap area;

first setting means for setting a first stitch type, for a stitch to be made using a thread, for one of the first and second embroidery areas;

second setting means for setting a second stitch type, which is different from the first stitch type but is for the same thread as the first stitch type, for the other embroidery area than the embroidery area set by the first setting means; and

embroidery data producing means for producing first and second embroidery data based on the stitch types set by the first and second setting means, respectively, the first embroidery data being produced to embroider the first embroidery area of the first area but not to embroider the overlap area, the second embroidery data being produced to embroider the second embroidery area.

2. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein the one area is the first area, while the other area is the second area.

3. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 2, wherein the first setting means is manual setting means for setting the stitch type manually, and wherein the second setting means automatically sets the second stitch type different from the first stitch type set by the first setting means.

4. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein when the first setting means has set a stitch type for the one area to satin stitches, the second setting means sets a stitch type for the other area to tatami stitches.

5. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein when the first setting means has set a stitch type for the one area to tatami stitches, the second setting means sets a stitch type for the other area to satin stitches.

6. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein the stitch types set by the first and second setting means include data about at least one of needle drop point pitch and needle drop point deviation amount.

7. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein the embroidery data producing means produces embroidery data only about a part of the second area overlapped on the first area and does not produce embroidery data about a part of the second area that is located outside the first area.

8. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 3, further comprising raised/recessed texture information-specifying means for specifying whether stitches to be formed in the other area is raised or recessed relative to stitches to be formed in the one area, and wherein the second setting means sets a stitch type of the other area based on the stitch type set by the first setting means and on the raised/recessed texture information specified by the raised/recessed texture information-specifying means.

9. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein the embroidery data producing means produces the embroidery data such that a stitch forming direction in which the first area is embroidered is a same as a stitch forming direction in which the second area is embroidered.

10. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein the embroidery data producing means produces embroidery data to form needle drop points on an outline of the second area.

11. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 2, wherein the area information input means is capable of inputting information indicating plural second areas to be embroidered, and wherein the second setting means collectively sets the same stitch type for all the second areas.

12. The embroidery data producing device according to claim 1, wherein the area information input means is capable of inputting information indicating a third area to be embroidered inside the second area, at least a part of the third area being overlapped on the second area, the embroidery data producing device further comprising third setting means for setting a stitch type different from the stitch type set by the second setting means for the third area, and the embroidery data producing means produces third embroidery data for embroidering the third area based on the stitch type set by the third setting means.

13. A program stored in a computer-readable medium for controlling production of embroidery data, the program being adapted to cause a computer incorporated in an embroidery data producing device to control the production of the embroidery data to be used to perform embroidery by an embroidery sewing machine, the program comprising:

an area information input routine for inputting area information indicative of first and second areas, the first area including a first embroidery area and an overlap area, the second area including a second embroidery area that overlaps the first area at the overlap area;

a first setting routine for reading in data to be used to set a first stitch type, for a stitch to be made using a thread, for one of the first and second embroidery areas;

a second setting routine for reading in data to be used to set a second stitch type, which is different from the first stitch type but is for the same thread as the first stitch type, for the other embroidery area than the embroidery area set by the first setting routine; and

an embroidery data producing routine for producing first and second embroidery data based on the stitch types set by the first and second setting routines, the first embroidery data being produced to embroider the first embroidery area of the first area but not to embroider the overlap area, the second embroidery data being produced to embroider the second embroidery area.

14. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein the first setting routine reads in data about a manually set stitch type, and the second setting routine automatically sets a stitch type different from the stitch type set by the first setting routine.

15. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein when a stitch type for the one area is set to satin stitches by the first setting routine, the second setting routine sets a stitch type for the other area to tatami stitches.

16. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein when a stitch type for the one area is set to tatami stitches by the first setting routine, the second setting routine sets a stitch type for the other area to satin stitches.

17. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein the stitch types set by the first and second setting routines include data about at least one of needle drop point pitch and needle drop point deviation amount.

18. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein the embroidery data producing routine produces embroidery data only about a part of the second area overlapped on the first area and does not produce embroidery data about a part of the second area that is located outside the first area.

19. The controlling program according to claim 13, further comprising a raised/recessed texture information-specifying routine for specifying whether stitches to be formed in the other area is raised or recessed relative to stitches to be formed in the one area, wherein the second setting routine sets a stitch type for the other area based on the stitch type set by the first setting routine and on the raised/recessed texture information specified by the raised/recessed texture information-specifying routine.

20. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein the embroidery data producing routine produces the embroidery data such that a stitch forming direction in which the first area is embroidered is a same as a stitch forming direction in which the second area is embroidered.

21. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein the embroidery data producing routine produces embroidery data to form needle drop points on an outline of the second area.

22. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein the area information input routine is capable of inputting information indicating plural second areas to be embroidered, and the second setting routine collectively sets to the same stitch type for all the second areas.

23. The controlling program according to claim 13, wherein the area information input routine is capable of inputting information indicating a third area to be embroidered inside the second area, at least a part of the third area being overlapped on the second area, the controlling program further comprising a third setting routine for setting a stitch type different from the stitch type set by the second setting routine for the third area, and the embroidery data producing routine produces third embroidery data for embroidering the third area based on the stitch type set by the third setting routine.