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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2002
Filed:
May. 12, 2000
Michiyo Amano, Gifu, JP;
Takeshi Kawaguchi, Konan, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
It is determined whether a quilt design is applicable to paper piecing by determining whether all pieces of the quilt design are finally separated by separating each piece one after another by one straight demarcation line. When it is determined that the quilt design is applicable to paper piecing, demarcation lines that do not intersect other demarcation lines and that divide the quilt design into two blocks that each include a plurality of the pieces are selected. The quilt design is modified by extending the arbitrarily selected demarcation line, and deleting all demarcation lines that exist in one of blocks divided by the extended demarcation line.