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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrew Bennett Kaymer, Essex, GB;
Martin Bysh, London, GB;
Assignee:
VSM Group AB, Husqvarna, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; D05C 5/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/900 ; D05C 5/02 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed a method of converting a bitmap to an object-based embroidery pattern by generating a skeleton from the bitmap and traversing paths and nodes identified in the skeleton, the embroidery pattern objects being generated during the traversal. The outline of the bitmap is used to define parts of the boundaries of the generated objects, which are laid down using a linear stitch type on the first traversal of a skeleton path and a fill stitch type on the second traversal of the skeleton path.