Patent ID: 7457683

Claim:
A system for use with an original embroidery design having shape data defining shapes and parameter data defining stitches and colors within each shape, said system for creating an adjusted embroidery design from the original embroidery design, said system comprising: a tangible computer readable storage media including: receiving instructions for defining vector data which is added to the shape data to define adjustable shapes of the shape data and to create an adjustable embroidery design which corresponds to the original embroidery design; and a processor executing the receiving instructions, said processor receiving magnitude data for defining a magnitude of the vector data for defining specific adjustments to the shape data; said processor applying the defined magnitude data to the vector data of the adjustable embroidery design to adjust the shape data of the adjustable embroidery design to create adjusted shaped data defining new shapes and thereby defining the adjusted embroidery design; and said processor exporting the adjusted shape data as stitch data in a form readable by an embroidery machine for producing an embroidered product with the adjusted embroidery design.