Patent ID: 7386361

Claim:
An embroidery data creation device for creating data of an embroidery stitch, comprising: drawing input means operated manually by a user for outputting at least a position of the operation, the drawing input means obtaining at least one type of said data from a pressure applied by said user to said drawing input means, a movement velocity of said drawing input means, and an inclination of said drawing input means; a needle fall point processing unit for generating a needle fall point along a trace constituted by a plurality of said positions input from said drawing input means, in accordance with said data, in parallel with an input of said trace, and such that at least one of an embroidery stitch width, an embroidery stitch density, and an embroidery stitch angle in relation to said trace satisfies a predetermined condition; means for detecting a curved portion of said trace by determining a curvature of said trace; means for inputting and storing a correction condition at said curved portion relating to at least one of said stitch width, said stitch density, and said stitch angle, wherein at least one of said stitch width, said stitch density, and said stitch angle is corrected at said curved portion in accordance with said correction condition such that the correction increases as said curvature increases; and display means for displaying an image of the stitch connecting said needle fall points in parallel with the input of said trace.