Patent ID: 6980877

Claim:
An embroidering system comprising: at least one embroidering machine having plural needles supplied with threads having different colors, the plural needles being identified respectively by plural needle numbers; and a control device for transmitting an embroidery data to the at least one embroidering machine so as to selectively drive the plural needles, the embroidery data generated and memorized in the control device prior to transmission thereof to the at least one embroidering machine, the embroidery data including the plural needle numbers and plural color codes for identifying a plurality of colors, each of the plural needle numbers being paired with a corresponding color code of the plural color codes, wherein, as required, the embroidery data is corrected such that when a first color code of the plural color codes is corrected to a specific color code, a needle number corresponding to the first color code is replaced by a needle number corresponding to the specific color code, and wherein one of the thread colors of the respective needles that is most similar to a color specified by the embroidery data is selected when the thread colors of the respective needles do not correspond to the color specified by the embroidery data upon correcting the embroidery data by the control device.