Patent ID: 8311660

Claim:
A production process for creating an applique emblem having a three-dimensional embroidered appearance, comprising: a design phase in which a raster image file of an applique design is digitally created; a vectorization phase subsequent to said design phase in which the raster image file of said applique design is converted to a vector image; an interpolation-to-embroidery phase subsequent to said vectorization phase in which pre-defined raster embroidery elements are selected from a library of pre-defined raster embroidery elements, and said selected pre-defined raster embroidery elements are mapped to the vector image; and a raster editing phase subsequent to said interpolation-to-embroidery phase in which characteristics of the raster embroidery elements mapped to the vector image are adjusted to produce a three-dimensional appearance of the applique design, and in which the vector representation having the raster embroidery elements is converted to a raster image file having a resolution of at least 300 dpi.