Patent ID: 6983193

Claim:
An apparatus for processing embroidery data including a control unit which manipulates embroidery data by which the sewing of an embroidery pattern is performed using an embroidery sewing machine, wherein the control unit comprises: a processor which performs the following process comprising: a process of obtaining partition information for dividing the embroidery data into a plurality of partitions, based on a predetermined area of sewing which is determined, depending on the type of an embroidery frame specified by selecting the type of the embroidery frame; a process of making embroidery data subdivisions by dividing the embroidery data into subdivisions, according to the partition information; and a process of generating partition position information that indicates the position of the embroidery data subdivisions in the whole embroidery data; and a display device which displays a pattern layout and the location of an embroidery data subdivision in the whole embroidery data, based on the partition position information for the embroidery data subdivisions.