US 7,493,187 B2
Quilting data processing apparatus and computer program product
Shoichi Taguchi, Nagoya (Japan); Yukiyoshi Muto, Nagoya (Japan); Mikitoshi Suzuki, Nagoya (Japan); Masahiro Mizuno, Nagoya (Japan); and Akihiro Wakayama, Nagoya (Japan)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (Japan)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/475,222.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-203390 (JP), filed on Jul. 12, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0032892 A1, Feb. 08, 2007
Int. Cl. G06F 19/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 700—131 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A quilting data processing apparatus comprising:
a fabric image data input device that enters fabric image data relating to a fabric pattern used in quilting;
a sewing line data input device that enters sewing line data of a quilting pattern;
a mesh pattern setting device that sets a basic mesh pattern of a desired mesh shape;
a deformation mesh pattern creating device that creates a deformation mesh pattern by deforming the basic mesh pattern on the basis of the sewing line data;
a deformation fabric image data creating device that creates deformation fabric image data modifying the fabric image data on the basis of the deformation mesh pattern; and
a quilting pattern display device that displays the quilting pattern on the basis of the deformation fabric image data and the sewing line data.