Patent ID: 7085617

Claim:
A control unit for controlling an embroidery sewing machine including a sewing portion, a workpiece feeding portion, and a thread cutting portion, the control unit comprising: an embroidery-data storing portion that stores embroidery data defining an embroidery pattern sewn by the sewing portion and the workpiece feeding portion, the embroidery data including stitch data indicating needle drop positions for forming stitches on a workpiece and feed data indicating feed positions for feeding the workpiece, the feed data being located between a plurality of groups of embroidery data, each of the plurality of groups of embroidery data being a group of data for performing embroidery sewing in a corresponding one of a plurality of embroidery regions, the feed data being data for connecting the plurality of embroidery regions; a feed-data extracting portion that extracts the feed data from the embroidery data read from the embroidery-data storing portion; and a thread-cutting-data adding portion that adds thread cutting data immediately prior to the feed data extracted by the feed-data extracting portion, the thread cutting data instructing the thread cutting portion to perform thread cutting.