Patent ID: 9624610
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: D05B,D05C

Claim:
1. An embroidery pattern placement system comprising: an image-taking unit that takes an image with an embroidery frame and cloth to be embroidered attached to the embroidery frame included in an image taking range; an embroidery frame information obtaining unit that obtains information of the embroidery frame; an image analyzing unit that analyzes a positional relationship between the information of the embroidery frame obtained by the embroidery frame information obtaining unit and the embroidery frame in the image taken by the image-taking unit; an embroidery pattern obtaining unit that obtains information relating to the embroidery pattern to be embroidered; a display control unit that displays the embroidery pattern obtained by the embroidery pattern obtaining unit and at least a part of the image taken by the image-taking unit in an overlapping manner at an identical scale in a display unit, using the analysis result by the image analyzing unit; an operation unit that accepts an operation from a user; an embroidery placement editing unit that determines a position and orientation of the embroidery pattern relative to the embroidery frame according to a content of the operation to the operation unit; and an embroidery execution unit that executes embroidery to the cloth to be embroidered attached to the embroidery frame such that the embroidery corresponds to the position and the orientation of the embroidery pattern determined by the embroidery placement editing unit, wherein: the image-taking unit performs a display corresponding to the embroidery frame in the information of the embroidery frame obtained by the embroidery frame information obtaining unit in the display unit, and whereby guides the user to take an image while the display corresponding to the embroidery frame and the embroidery frame match; and the image analyzing unit analyzes the positional relationships between the information of the embroidery frame and the embroidery frame in the taken image, based on a result of the image taking by the image-taking unit performed while the display corresponding to the embroidery frame and the embroidery frame match.