JP2000308776A - Embroidery data processing device capable of displaying embroidery patterns - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the memory capacity of an external storage medium by providing a pattern display control means with a font storage means and a head address control means and providing the external storage medium with multiple thread color specification data, which specify thread colors of multiple partial patterns. SOLUTION: In an embroidery memory card (card ROM) 23, which is detachably connected to a memory card connector 22 provided at a leg part 11 of an electronic control zigzag sewing machine, multiple one-point embroidery patterns including panda, elephant, horse, etc., are classified into multiple types such as animals, human beings, vehicles, fruits, etc., and stored. A thread color specification data specifying colors of patterns is stored in a thread color specification table. In an internal storage device in the sewing machine, a table is stored in which a font data and a head address of the font data to display thread colors are memorized. To embroider letters, letters matching a thread color specification data are read out and are used for embroidering.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern, and more particularly to displaying a plurality of partial patterns included in a designated embroidery pattern and displaying the thread color of each partial pattern in characters. Regarding what you did.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in an electronically controlled sewing machine equipped with a display device and a sewing data processing device and capable of performing embroidery stitching, in addition to a plurality of practical stitch patterns, various decorative stitch patterns and a large number of concrete patterns are provided. External memory such as a card ROM or memory card, which previously stores pattern data for sewing a wide variety of embroidery patterns such as one-point patterns, character patterns, etc. Prior to selecting an embroidery pattern, a plurality of embroidery patterns included in the type are displayed on the display via an operation of a type selection key for selecting the type of the embroidery pattern. It is configured to select a desired embroidery pattern.

By the way, recently, for concrete one-point embroidery patterns such as "statues" and "horses",
The embroidery pattern is composed of a plurality of partial patterns so that the embroidery pattern can be colorfully sewn with a plurality of embroidery threads of different thread colors. All the partial patterns to be embroidered are displayed on the display, and the thread color of the embroidery thread for embroidering each partial pattern is also displayed at the same time. That is, the card ROM stores a plurality of partial pattern display data for each of the plurality of embroidery patterns in addition to the embroidery sewing data and the pattern display data. Are integrally stored.

[0004]

As described above, the card RO which is an external memory detachably mounted on the sewing machine is provided.
M, for each of the plurality of embroidery patterns, stores a plurality of partial pattern display data in addition to the embroidery sewing data and the pattern display data, and stores dot data for thread color display in each partial pattern display data. Therefore, the partial pattern display data is configured as one image data having thread color display data, and the data amount of each partial pattern display data becomes large. There is a problem that the memory capacity increases and the cost of the card ROM increases.

[0005] In particular, this card ROM is shared so as to have versatility so that it can be applied to a plurality of countries.
In order to simplify the production and management of OM, the thread colors displayed corresponding to each partial pattern are stored in multiple languages such as Japanese, English, German and French, and the thread colors of the partial pattern are stored. If the display is to be performed selectively in the language corresponding to the country where the sewing machine is used, the partial pattern display data for multiple languages should be stored as each partial pattern display data composed of image data. Therefore, there is a problem that the memory capacity of the card ROM is further increased.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to reduce the memory capacity of an external storage medium by storing thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns included in each of a plurality of embroidery patterns in an external storage medium using thread color designation data. An object of the present invention is to provide a sewing data processing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern as obtained.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern, the display means including a display and its controller, and pattern data relating to a plurality of embroidery patterns. A sewing data processing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern, comprising: an external storage medium as an external memory; and a pattern display control means for displaying one or a plurality of designated embroidery patterns on a display means based on the pattern data. The medium stores a plurality of thread color designation data that respectively designate thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns included in each of the plurality of embroidery patterns.
A character font storage means for storing display font data of a plurality of characters required at least to display various thread colors in a character or language format of a predetermined language; A head address corresponding means for storing a head address of a plurality of character display font data in a character font storage means and thread color designation data in association with each other. Here, the character or language format of the predetermined language includes a plurality of languages such as Japanese, English, and French, and in the case of Japanese, includes hiragana, katakana, and kanji, and a simplified form of thread color. included.

In operation, the external storage medium stores a plurality of thread color designation data for respectively designating thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns included in each of the plurality of embroidery patterns.
Further, in the pattern display control means, the character font storage means stores display font data of at least a plurality of characters necessary for displaying characters in a predetermined language or various thread colors in a language format, and a head address correspondence. The means stores the head address and the thread color designation data in the character font storage means of the font data for displaying one or a plurality of characters for displaying each of the plurality of thread colors in a corresponding manner. The display font data of the character of the thread color corresponding to the thread color designation data read from the medium can be displayed as the thread color of the corresponding partial pattern.

In other words, the thread color corresponding to the thread color designation data can be displayed in characters on the display only by storing a plurality of thread color designation data for respectively designating the thread colors of the plurality of partial patterns in the external storage medium. Since the data amount of the thread color designation data is smaller than the thread color image data, the memory capacity of the external storage medium can be reduced, and the external storage medium can be reduced in size and cost.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern, in the first aspect of the present invention, the head address correspondence means relates to one or a plurality of characters for displaying a thread color for each thread color. It stores the start address. The operation is the same as that of the first embodiment. However, since the head address correspondence means stores the head address of one or more characters for displaying the thread color for each thread color, The start addresses for the number of characters required to display the character can be obtained.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern, the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying the embroidery pattern is provided in the embroidery sewing apparatus for performing embroidery sewing. It is equipped. Explaining the operation, the same operation as the first or second aspect is achieved, but the sewing data processing device capable of displaying the embroidery pattern is provided in the embroidery sewing device for performing the embroidery sewing. The embroidery pattern can be displayed, and the thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns included in the embroidery pattern can be displayed in characters.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern, the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying the embroidery pattern includes: It is provided in a device that performs at least one of editing. Explaining the operation, the same operation as that of claim 1 or 2 is achieved, but a sewing data processing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern is provided in a device that performs at least one of creation and editing of embroidery sewing data. Therefore, an embroidery pattern can be displayed and the thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns included in the embroidery pattern can be displayed in characters by an apparatus that performs at least one of creating and editing sewing data for embroidery.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern, the character font storage means may store each of a plurality of predetermined languages. Display font data of a plurality of characters necessary to display various thread colors in a character or language format is classified and stored by language, and the head address correspondence unit classifies by each language, The head address and the thread color designation data of the font data for displaying one or a plurality of characters for displaying each of the plurality of thread colors in the character font storage unit are stored in association with each other.

The operation is similar to that of any one of the first to fourth aspects. However, the character font storage means stores various characters in each of a plurality of predetermined languages or language formats. Font data for display of a plurality of characters necessary for displaying a color is classified and stored for each language, and the head address correspondence means is classified for each language and character-displays each of a plurality of thread colors. Since the head address of the display font data of one or more characters in the character font storage means and the thread color designation data are stored in association with each other, if the language information is received, the language information and the thread information are stored. Based on the thread color designation data, thread color characters can be displayed in each of a plurality of languages.

Further, even when the external storage medium is used in a country where a new language is used, the stored data is not changed or added to the external storage medium without changing.
In the character font storage means, add font data for displaying characters necessary to display the thread color used in the language,
The head address corresponding means may be associated with the head address of the display font data and the thread color designation data, so that the versatility of the external storage medium can be improved.

[0016]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, the present invention is applied to an embroidery sewing apparatus in which a work cloth feeding mechanism is assembled to an electronically controlled zigzag sewing machine. The embroidery sewing apparatus M is an electronically controlled zigzag sewing machine 1 having a sewing needle 15.
And a work cloth feed mechanism 40 capable of embroidery sewing is detachably mounted. First, electronically controlled zigzag sewing machine 1
As shown in FIG. 1, as shown in FIG. 1, a sewing machine bed 10, a pillar 11 erected from the right end of the bed 10, and a left side facing the bed 10 from the pillar 11. The bed 10 is provided with a feed dog vertical movement mechanism (not shown) for moving the feed dog up and down, a feed dog longitudinal movement mechanism (not shown) for moving the feed tooth back and forth, and the like. I have.

On the other hand, the arm section 12 has a needle bar driving mechanism for vertically moving a needle bar 14 on which a sewing needle 15 can be mounted at a lower end thereof;
A needle bar swinging mechanism for swinging the needle bar 14 in a direction perpendicular to the cloth feeding direction, a balance driving mechanism (not shown) for moving the balance 16 up and down in synchronization with the vertical movement of the needle bar 14 and the like are provided. ing. Here, the needle bar drive mechanism, the balance drive mechanism, and the feed dog vertical movement mechanism are driven by a sewing machine motor 26 (see FIG. 2), and the needle bar swing mechanism is driven by a needle bar swing drive motor 27. The feed dog longitudinal movement mechanism is a feed dog drive motor 28 (FIG. 2).
See). That is, the needle bar 1 on which the sewing needle 15 is attached
A sewing mechanism is constituted by a needle bar driving mechanism, a balance driving mechanism, and the like for driving the sewing machine 4.

A large liquid crystal display 20 capable of displaying a plurality of embroidery patterns and various messages is provided on the front surface of the arm portion 12, and a display area of the display 20 includes a plurality of touch keys formed of transparent electrodes. The touch key 20a functions as a pattern selection key for selecting a pattern via the embroidery pattern displayed on the display 20, and also functions as a function key via the displayed function name. A start / stop switch 21 for instructing start and stop of the sewing operation is provided near the head 13 of the arm 12. Further, the column 11 has a card mounting connector 22 for detachably mounting a card ROM 23 (corresponding to an external storage medium) as an external memory, and a speed changing knob 24 for adjusting a sewing speed. Is provided.

A work cloth feed mechanism 40 capable of embroidering a large embroidery pattern is detachably mounted on a free arm section 10a formed at the left end of the bed section 10. An embroidery table 41 is provided in the work cloth feed mechanism 40 so as to be movable in a Y direction parallel to the cloth feed direction and the counter cloth feed direction and in an X direction orthogonal to the Y direction. A cloth holding frame (not shown) for holding a work cloth can be detachably mounted. Also,
An X-direction drive motor 42 for driving the embroidery table 41 in the X direction is provided in the main body frame of the work cloth feed mechanism 40.
And a Y-direction drive motor 43 that drives in the direction.

Next, an outline of a control system of the embroidery sewing apparatus M will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. First, the control device 30 of the sewing machine 1 includes a microcomputer including a CPU 31 and a ROM 32, a card ROM 23 and a RAM 33, and an input interface 3 connected to the microcomputer via a bus 34 such as a data bus.
5 and an output interface 36. The input / output interface 35 includes a start / stop switch 21.
And touch keys 20a as pattern selection keys and function keys
And the signal from the timing signal generator 25 is supplied,
Further, the output interface 36 outputs a signal from the sewing machine motor 2.
6, a needle bar swing drive motor 27, and a feed dog drive motor 2
8 and a display controller (LCDC) 29 that supplies a display signal to a display (LCD) 20 are supplied with a drive signal and a drive pulse signal.

The timing signal generator 25 is provided in association with the upper shaft of the sewing machine 1 and detects the rotational phase of the upper shaft. The output interface 36 is further connected to an X-direction drive motor 42 and a Y-direction drive motor 43 of the work cloth feed mechanism 40.
3 are independently driven based on individual drive signals output from the control device 30, and the embroidery table 41 moves to a combined position in the X direction and the Y direction for each stitch. Various embroidery patterns are embroidered. Here, the sewing data processing device is configured by the card ROM 23, the display 20, the control device 30, and the like, and the control device 30 is configured to include a pattern display control unit.

In the card ROM 23, a large number of one-point embroidery patterns including "panda", "statue", "horse", etc. are stored in plural numbers such as "animal", "person", "vehicle", and "fruit". In each of the plurality of embroidery patterns, pattern data including pattern display data for display and embroidery data for embroidery sewing is stored. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, for each embroidery pattern, the pattern display data and the head address of the embroidery data, the pattern display data, and the embroidery data are stored separately. Here, pattern data is composed of the pattern display data and the embroidery data.

By the way, for each of the plurality of embroidery patterns such as "animal" and "person", the thread colors are colorfully embroidered with different thread colors such as "red", "green" and "yellow". The one-point embroidery pattern is divided into a plurality of partial patterns so that sewing can be performed, and the pattern display data is configured to include the partial pattern display data for each of the partial patterns. Is included. That is, this card RO
As shown in FIG. 3, M23 further stores partial pattern number data for each embroidery pattern and a thread color designation table for designating a thread color for each partial pattern.

Next, the thread color designation table will be described. As shown in FIG. 4, thread color designation data is stored for each partial pattern of each embroidery pattern. For example, the second
The embroidery pattern "image" is composed of five partial patterns. The first partial pattern thread color designation data "12", the second partial pattern thread color designation data "13", and the third partial pattern thread color designation data "1".
"0", thread color designation data "11" of the fourth partial pattern, and thread color designation data "14" of the fifth partial pattern are stored in advance. Here, the thread color designation data “10” is “red”,
The thread color designation data "11" is "blue", the thread color designation data "12" is "yellow", the thread color designation data "13" is "green", and the thread color designation data "14" is "black"···
The thread color designation data includes, for example, about 30 colors.

The ROM 32 stores language information for designating a language such as "Japanese" or "English", a control program for embroidery pattern display control unique to the present invention described later, and embroidery data for practical sewing such as zigzag sewing and triple sewing. The embroidery sewing control program for driving the drive motors 27 and 28 based on the embroidery data and driving the drive motors 42 and 43 based on the embroidery data to perform embroidery sewing is stored. Furthermore, ROM
32 character font memories (corresponding to character font storage means) 32a store display font data of a plurality of characters at least necessary to display various thread colors with each of Japanese and English characters. They are separately classified and stored.

That is, for Japanese, characters "A", "I", and "30" are used to display about 30 thread colors in katakana characters.
The font data of “U”, “E”, “O”, “K”,... Are stored, and for English, characters for displaying approximately 30 thread colors in alphabetical characters. "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F",
.. Are stored.

Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the ROM 32 stores, in the character font data memory 32a, the head address of the display font data for one or a plurality of katakana characters for displaying the thread colors in katakana characters for each thread color. ,
A Japanese head address table TB1 in which thread color designation data is associated with each other is stored. Further, as shown in FIG. 7, the head address in the character font data memory 32a of the display font data relating to one or a plurality of alphabetic characters for displaying the thread colors in alphabetical characters for each thread color and the thread color designation data are stored. The corresponding English head address table TB2 is stored. Here, the head address correspondence means is constituted by the head address table TB1 for Japanese and the head address table TB2 for English.

The RAM 33 is provided with various memories such as buffers and counters necessary for executing the embroidery pattern display control and the embroidery sewing control. Next, the embroidery pattern display control routine executed by the control device 30 of the sewing machine 1 will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. However, the reference symbol Si (i = 10, 1
1, 12...) Are each step.

When the power of the sewing machine 1 is turned on, this control is started, and first, a selection screen for selecting the type of the embroidery pattern is displayed on the display 20 (S10). For example, as shown in FIG. 12, selectable types of "animal", "person", "land vehicle", "sea / sky vehicle", and "fruit" are displayed. Then, an embroidery pattern type selection process of selecting a desired one of these types by pressing the touch key 20a is executed (S11). Then, display processing control (see FIG. 9) for displaying the selected one-point embroidery pattern is executed (S12).

When this control is started, first, the first embroidery pattern group of the selected type is displayed on the display 20 (S20). For example, when "animal" is selected, the first embroidery pattern "panda" to the fifth embroidery pattern "bear" stored in the card ROM 23 among a plurality of embroidery patterns related to "animal" as shown in FIG. Is displayed. Next, when the touch key 20a corresponding to the display of "next page" is operated (S21
(S22: Yes), an embroidery pattern group including the following five embroidery patterns is displayed (S25), and the process returns to S21. When the touch key 20a corresponding to the display of "previous page" is operated (S21: Yes, S22: No, S23: Yes), an embroidery pattern group including the previous five embroidery patterns is displayed (S26). , S
Return to 21.

Next, when a touch key 20a corresponding to a desired embroidery pattern to be sewn from the displayed embroidery pattern group is pressed as a pattern selection key (S
21: Yes, S22 to S23: No, S24: Yes), and pattern selection processing control (see FIG. 10) is executed (S27). When this control is started, first, the pattern display data of the embroidery pattern designated by the pattern selection key is read from the card ROM 23, and a plurality of partial patterns for each color change are displayed according to the sewing order (S30). ). For example, when the embroidery pattern "image" is selected, the embroidery pattern "image" and five partial patterns constituting the pattern are displayed as shown in FIG.

Next, thread color display processing control (see FIG. 11) for displaying the thread color for each partial pattern is executed (S31). When this control is started, first, the number a of partial patterns of the embroidery pattern a
Is read from the card ROM 23 (S40), and an initial value "1" is set as the count value N of the partial pattern number counter (S41). Next, the Nth thread color designation data indicated by the partial pattern number count value N is stored in the card ROM 2.
3 is read from the thread color designation table (S42). If the language information is "Japanese" based on the language information stored in the ROM 32 (S43: Yes), one or more corresponding to the thread color designation data read from the Japanese head address table TB1. Is read (S44).

Next, based on the read head address, one or more katakana characters are displayed below the partial pattern corresponding to the thread color (S45). When the partial pattern number count value N is not equal to the partial pattern number a (S46: No), the partial pattern number count value N is incremented by one (S47), and S41 to S47 are repeatedly executed. When the partial pattern number count value N becomes equal to the partial pattern number a and the thread colors of all the partial patterns are displayed (S46: Yes), this control is terminated, and the process proceeds to S32 of the pattern selection processing control. To return.

For example, when the embroidery pattern "image" and the five partial patterns constituting the pattern are displayed on the display 20, the embroidery pattern "image" is firstly displayed in the thread color designation table shown in FIG. Since the thread color designation data of the partial pattern "12" is "12", based on the leading address of the font data "K" corresponding to the thread color designation data "12" of the leading alphabet table TB1 for Japanese shown in FIG. The font data of the katakana character "K" is read and displayed. Thereafter, display processing is performed in the same manner, and as shown in FIG. 14, the thread color “K” of the first partial pattern, “Midori” of the second partial pattern,... "" Is displayed in association with the lower side of each partial pattern.

On the other hand, in the thread color display processing control, when the language information is "English" (S43: No), one or a plurality of alphabetic characters corresponding to the thread color designation data read from the English head address table TB2. Is read (S48). Then, based on the read head address, the thread color is displayed as one or a plurality of alphabetic characters below the corresponding partial pattern (S45), and thereafter, S41 to S47 are repeatedly executed. . For example, when the embroidery pattern “image” and five partial patterns constituting the pattern are displayed on the display 20, as shown in FIG. 15, the thread color “YELLOW” of the first partial pattern and the second part Pattern thread color "GRE
EN ", the thread color of the fifth partial pattern" BLACK "
Are displayed in association with the lower side of each partial pattern.

When the return key is operated in the pattern selection processing control (S32 / S33: Yes), the currently selected embroidery pattern group is displayed on the display 20 (S36), and the one-point embroidery pattern is displayed. The process returns to S21 of the display processing control, and the embroidery pattern for embroidery sewing can be selected again.

On the other hand, the return key and the start / stop switch 21
Key is operated (S32: Yes, S33
(S34: No), the process corresponding to the operated key is executed (S35), and the process returns to S32. When the start / stop key 21 is operated (S32: Yes, S33: No, S34: Ye
s), this control and the one-point embroidery pattern display processing control are terminated, and the process returns to S10 of the embroidery pattern display control.
As a result, the start of embroidery sewing is instructed, the sewing machine motor 26 is driven, and the embroidery sewing is executed in cooperation with the sewing mechanism and the work cloth feed mechanism 40.

Next, the operation and effect of the embroidery pattern display control for displaying the partial patterns of the selected embroidery pattern and displaying the thread color of each partial pattern will be described. Card ROM
23 stores pattern data relating to a plurality of embroidery patterns and a thread color designation table storing thread color designation data for each of a plurality of partial patterns included in each embroidery pattern. On the other hand, in the ROM 32 of the control device 30,
A character font memory 32a is provided which classifies display font data of a plurality of characters necessary for displaying various thread colors with each character of a plurality of predetermined languages by language. Start address table TB1 and English start address table TB2
Are provided, and both head address tables TB1, TB1 are provided.
In TB2, a head address in the character font memory 32a of display font data of one or a plurality of characters for displaying each of a plurality of thread colors as characters and thread color designation data are stored in association with each other.

When a desired embroidery pattern is selected from a plurality of embroidery patterns displayed on the display 20, a plurality of partial patterns included in the embroidery pattern are displayed and set for each of the partial patterns. When the language is "Japanese" based on the thread color designation data and the language information, the thread color corresponding to the thread color designation data is displayed in katakana characters such as "red" or "ao". When the language is "English", it is displayed in alphabetical characters such as "RED" and "BLUE".

That is, by simply storing a plurality of thread color designation data for designating thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns included in each embroidery pattern in the card ROM 23, a thread color corresponding to the thread color designation data is displayed. Since characters can be displayed on the line 20, the thread color designation data has a smaller data amount than the thread color image data, so that the memory capacity of the card ROM 23 can be reduced, and the card ROM 23 can be reduced in size and cost. .

Furthermore, even when the card ROM 23 is exported to a country that uses a new language, the embroidery sewing to which the card ROM 23 is attached without changing or adding the stored data to the card ROM 23. The character font memory 32a of the ROM 32 of the device M only needs to add display font data for characters necessary to display the thread color used in the language, and to add a head address table for the language. Versatility can be improved.

First modification. By the way, in the character font memory 32a of the ROM 32,
For Japanese, in addition to the font data of "A", "I", "U" ... for displaying about 30 thread colors in Hiragana characters, Kanji for displaying thread colors in Kanji Font data of "red", "blue", "yellow", "green"
While being classified and stored according to the language format, a head address table for Japanese (Hiragana) for displaying thread colors in Hiragana characters and a head address table for Japanese (Kanji) for displaying thread colors in Kanji are stored in the ROM 32. I do. In the thread color display process control, when the language information stored in the ROM 32 is "Japanese and Hiragana", based on the Japanese (Hiragana) head address table, as shown in FIG. While the thread color is displayed in hiragana, if the linguistic information is "Japanese and Kanji", based on the head address table for Japanese (Kanji), FIG.
As shown in FIG. 7, the thread color of each partial pattern may be displayed in Chinese characters.

Second modification. Further, as shown in FIG. 18, with respect to English, a simplified form in which the thread color is simplified by three alphabets, such as "BLU" for the thread color "BLU", "YEL" for the thread color "YELLOW",. The head address table TB12 for English is stored in the ROM 32, and when the language information is "English and simplified" in the thread color display processing control, the head address table TB for simplified English is displayed.
As shown in FIG. 19, the thread colors are displayed in a narrow thread color display area in a simple format "YEL", "GR
E ",... May be displayed. Further, the thread color “YEL” is “Y”, the thread color “RED” is “R”,.
May be displayed in a simplified form as shown below.

It should be noted that the card ROM 23 stores only pattern display data for a plurality of embroidery patterns and develops the embroidery data from the pattern display data to obtain the embroidery data. Remember,
The embroidery data is configured to be obtained by developing the pattern display data, or the pattern data that can be developed into the pattern display data and the embroidery data is stored, and the pattern data is converted into the pattern display data or the embroidery data. A plurality of head address tables for a plurality of languages are stored in the ROM 32, and display font data in a plurality of languages are classified and stored in the character font memory 32a. It is also possible to configure to display the thread color in a language.

Further, based on the thread color designation data and language information of each partial pattern included in the embroidery pattern, a predetermined arithmetic expression is used to generate font data for displaying the thread color characters corresponding to the thread color designation data. Existing technologies related to the above-described embodiment are configured such that a start address is obtained or various external storage media such as a magnetic storage medium or an optical storage medium are detachably mounted instead of the card ROM 23. And various modifications may be made based on techniques obvious to those skilled in the art. Furthermore, other than an embroidery sewing device capable of performing embroidery sewing by moving the sewing needle 15 relative to the cloth holding frame, and an embroidery sewing device capable of performing embroidery sewing by moving the feed dog in the front-rear direction and the left-right direction of the work cloth, respectively. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to an apparatus for performing at least one of creation and editing of embroidery sewing data without an embroidery sewing mechanism or a sewing mechanism.

[0046]

According to the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern according to the first aspect, the external storage means stores the thread color designation data, and the pattern display control means includes a character font storage means and a head address. By providing a plurality of thread color designation data for respectively designating thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns in an external storage medium, a thread color corresponding to the thread color designation data can be displayed on a display. Since the thread color designation data has a smaller data amount than the thread color image data, the memory capacity of the external storage medium can be reduced, and the external storage medium can be reduced in size and cost.

According to the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern according to the second aspect, the same effect as that of the first aspect is obtained, but the head address correspondence means displays the thread color for each thread color in character. Alternatively, since the start addresses for a plurality of characters are stored, the start addresses for the number of characters for displaying the thread color can be obtained. According to the sewing data processing device capable of displaying the embroidery pattern according to the third aspect, the same effect as that of the first or second aspect can be obtained, but the sewing data processing device capable of displaying the embroidery pattern can perform the embroidery sewing for performing the embroidery sewing. Since the embroidery sewing device is equipped with the embroidery sewing device, the embroidery pattern can be displayed, and the thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns included in the embroidery pattern can be displayed in characters.

According to the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern according to the fourth aspect, the same effect as that of the first or second aspect can be obtained, but the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying the embroidery pattern has Since it is equipped with a device that performs at least one of the creation and editing of sewing data, the device that performs at least one of the creation and editing of sewing data for embroidery can display an embroidery pattern and include the embroidery pattern. The thread colors of a plurality of partial patterns to be displayed can be displayed in characters.

According to the sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern according to claim 5, any one of claims 1 to 4 is provided.
Has the same effect as the item, but the character font storage means
Display font data for a plurality of characters necessary for displaying various thread colors in each character or language form of a plurality of predetermined languages is classified and stored for each language, and the head address correspondence means is The head address and the thread color designation data in the character font storage means of the font data for displaying one or a plurality of characters for displaying each of a plurality of thread colors as characters are classified and stored for each language. Therefore, if language information is received, thread color characters can be displayed in each of a plurality of languages based on the language information and the thread color designation data.

Further, even when the external storage medium is used in a country where a new language is used, the data to be stored in the external storage medium is not changed or added.
In the character font storage means, add font data for displaying characters necessary to display the thread color used in the language,
The head address corresponding means may be associated with the head address of the display font data and the thread color designation data, so that the versatility of the external storage medium can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an embroidery sewing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control system of the embroidery sewing device.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating various data structures stored in a card ROM.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a data configuration of a thread color designation table.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a data configuration of a character font memory.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a data configuration of a head address table for Japanese.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a data configuration of an English head address table.

FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of an embroidery pattern display control routine.

FIG. 9 is a schematic flowchart of a one-point embroidery pattern display processing control routine.

FIG. 10 is a schematic flowchart of a routine of a pattern selection process control.

FIG. 11 is a schematic flowchart of a routine of thread color display processing control.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of a display example in which the type names of embroidery patterns are displayed.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a display example of an embroidery pattern group of “animal”.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a display example in which a partial pattern of “image” and a thread color in katakana characters are displayed.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example in which a partial pattern of “image” and a thread color by alphabetical characters are displayed.

FIG. 16 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 14, showing thread colors in hiragana according to the first modification;

FIG. 17 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 14 and showing thread colors in Chinese characters according to the first modification;

FIG. 18 is a simplified diagram corresponding to FIG. 7 according to a second modification.

FIG. 19 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example in which thread colors are displayed in a simplified English format according to the second modification.

[Explanation of symbols]

 M embroidery sewing machine 1 Electronically controlled zigzag sewing machine 20 Liquid crystal display 23 Card ROM 29 Display controller 30 Controller 31 CPU 32 ROM 32a Character font memory 33RAM TB1 Japanese head address table TB2 English head address table

Claims (5)

[Claims] A display means including a display and a controller thereof, an external storage medium as an external memory for storing pattern data relating to a plurality of embroidery patterns and being detachably mounted, and one or more designated embroidery patterns. In the sewing data processing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern having a pattern display control means for displaying on a display means based on the pattern data, the external storage medium may include a plurality of partial pattern threads included in each of the plurality of embroidery patterns. A plurality of thread color designation data each designating a color is stored, and the pattern display control means includes a font for displaying a plurality of characters at least necessary for displaying characters in a predetermined language or various thread colors in a language format. Character font storage means for storing data, and character font storage means for displaying font data of one or more characters for displaying each of a plurality of thread colors as characters Definitive start address and thread color indication data and the respective association and head address corresponding means for storing, the embroidery pattern can be displayed sewing data processing apparatus characterized by comprising a. 2. An embroidery pattern display according to claim 1, wherein said head address correspondence means stores a head address of one or a plurality of characters for displaying a thread color for each thread color. Possible sewing data processing device. 3. The embroidery sewing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the sewing data processing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern is provided in an embroidery sewing device that performs embroidery sewing. Data processing device. 4. A sewing data processing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern is provided in a device that performs at least one of creation and editing of sewing data for embroidery. A sewing data processing device capable of displaying an embroidery pattern described in 1. 5. The character font storage means classifies display font data of at least a plurality of characters necessary for displaying various thread colors in each character or language format of a plurality of predetermined languages by language. The head address correspondence means classifies the head address and the thread in the character font storage means of font data for displaying one or a plurality of characters for displaying each of a plurality of thread colors as characters by classifying them into languages. 5. A sewing data processing apparatus capable of displaying an embroidery pattern according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the data is stored in association with color designation data.