Patent ID: 7983783

Claim:
An embroidery data creation apparatus that creates embroidery data required to embroider a plurality of unit patterns by using an embroidery sewing machine, said apparatus comprising: a storage device that stores said unit patterns, each of said unit patterns being made up of one character or symbol; a first determination device that determines whether a sewing endpoint exists in a sewing region of a target unit pattern, said sewing endpoint being last in sewing order of a plurality of stitch points of a preceding unit pattern to be sewn immediately prior to said target unit pattern, and said target unit pattern being one of said unit patterns stored in said storage device; and a first thread-cutting setting device that, if it has been determined by said first determination device that said sewing endpoint of said preceding unit pattern exists in said sewing region of said target unit pattern, sets a thread-cutting operation not to be performed by a thread-cutting mechanism in an embroidery sewing machine at said sewing endpoint of said preceding unit pattern and, if it has been determined by said first determination device that said sewing endpoint of said preceding unit pattern does not exist in said sewing region of said target unit pattern, sets the thread-cutting operation to be performed or withheld, wherein said first determination device determines whether sewing endpoint data, which is embroidery position data of said sewing endpoint of said preceding unit pattern, is included in a closed region data, which is embroidery position data of one or a plurality of closed regions obtained by dividing said sewing region of said target unit pattern, to thereby determine whether said sewing endpoint of said preceding unit pattern is present in said sewing region of said target unit pattern.