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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2007
Hiroyuki Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Yutaka Nomura, Nagoya, JP;
Masaru Jimbo, Kasugai, JP;
Yoshinori Nakamura, Toyohashi, JP;
Eiichi Ito, Kasugai, JP;
Hiroyuki Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Yutaka Nomura, Nagoya, JP;
Masaru Jimbo, Kasugai, JP;
Yoshinori Nakamura, Toyohashi, JP;
Eiichi Ito, Kasugai, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A sewing machine including a needle-swing mechanism that swings a needle bar; a cloth-feed mechanism that feeds a workpiece cloth by a feed dog; an imaging unit that captures an image of a baseline drawn on a surface of the workpiece cloth; a baseline-color detection portion that detects a baseline color of the baseline based on an image data of the baseline captured by the imaging unit; a first storage portion storing a mapping of a plurality of baseline colors to stitch data of a plurality of normal patterns; and a control portion that forms normal pattern stitches along the baseline by reading stitch data corresponding to the baseline color detected by the baseline-color detection portion from the first storage portion and controlling the needle-swing mechanism and the cloth-feed mechanism based on the stitch data read.