Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Toshihiko Ikeda

Ryohei Komiya

Satoru Makino

Yoshihisa Kayanaka

Takeshi Kawaguchi

Michiyo Amano

Yumiko Takeda

Provided is a printing apparatus having a device which is capable of intuitively deciding whether the indication of printing start is possible. Platen installation (S), ink cartridge installation (S), residual ink amount (S), waste ink tank installation (S), residual capacity of waste ink tank (S), printing data reception (S), and maintenance execution (S) are confirmed, as conditions at which printing can be conducted, with a platen detection sensor, ink cartridge detection sensor, residual ink amount detection sensor, water ink tank detection sensor, residual capacity of waste ink tank detection sensor, reception flag, and maintenance flag, respectively, and a printing possibility LED provided in a printing start button is switched on at the point of time when all the printing possibility-conditions are satisfied (S).

Printing apparatus

A CPU selects a line segment, whose both endpoints constructing a part of a quilt design are on a periphery, and then selects a line segment, which separates a piece from the quilt design on a piece-by-piece basis so that the separated piece will not have a line segment to become a separation line, from the selected line segments, after separation. When the line segment can be selected, a piece is separated from the quilt design at the selected line segment on a piece-by-piece basis. Then, the CPU determines that the quilt design, whose one piece has been separated, is the object to be determined, and separates pieces from the quilt design on a piece-by-piece basis. When all line segments are used for the separation, an applicability determination flag is set, because all pieces in the quilt design are separated into pieces on the piece-by-piece basis.

Applicability determination device for quilt design and memory medium storing a controlling program thereof

Disclosed is a pattern editing system which extracts a unit pattern from repeatedly arranged patterns, arranges a plurality of unit patterns to form another repeated patterns consisting of only the unit pattern. Degree of matching of adjacent patterns are adjustable by correcting a distortion of the extracted unit pattern.

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Kounan, Japan

Toshihiko Ikeda