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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1988
Hideaki Takenoya, Tokyo, JP;
Reishi Nomoto, Tokyo, JP;
Janome Sewing Machine Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of setting visually balanced spacing between characters to be embroidered by an embroidering sewing machine in which character forming information which is stored with a preset reference size is successively read out and the characters are displayed and aligned between two parallel line segments. The aligned characters are first arranged in such a manner that the contours of consecutive characters contact each other at least at one point. Then the space areas between characters are calculated and a maximum area of the calculated space areas is set as a reference space area; then increasing the distances between the characters such that the other space areas between the characters become equal to the reference space area; and finally arranging the characters at spacings which have been increased by a computed minimum distance.