Patent ID: 8301292
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: D05B,D05C

Abstract:
1. A sewing machine, comprising: a body; an embroidery frame moving mechanism that is adapted to removably hold and move an embroidery frame in relation to the body, the embroidery frame holding a sewing object; an image capture device that is provided with a function to capture a plurality of images of the sewing object under a plurality of image capture conditions, respectively, the plurality of the image capture conditions corresponding to different effective image capture ranges, each of the effective image capture ranges being set as an effective range within a range in which the image of the sewing object is captured; a specifying device that specifies, as a specific range, a range on the sewing object to be captured by the image capture device; a determining device that, based on the specific range specified by the specifying device, determines a combination of a specific image capture condition and a positioning condition, the specific image capture condition being a condition for capturing at least one image that covers an entirety of the specific range and including at least one of the plurality of the image capture conditions, the positioning condition being a condition including at least one position to which the embroidery frame can be moved; a setting device that sets the specific image capture condition that has been determined by the determining device as an actual image capture condition for the image capture device; a positioning device that, by controlling the embroidery frame moving mechanism, positions the embroidery frame in accordance with the positioning condition that has been determined by the determining device; and an acquiring device that, in a state in which the actual image capture condition has been set by the setting device and the embroidery frame has been positioned by the positioning device, causes the image capture device to capture an image of the sewing object and acquires image data that corresponds to a specific effective image capture range, the specific effective image capture range being one of the effective image capture ranges and corresponding to the actual image capture condition.