JPH11226276A - Device for processing design data for patchwork and recording medium in which patchwork design data processing program is stored - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make design data comprising divided design data of a plurality of design parts provided for a patchwork by only preparing designs for the patchwork without preparing a cloth for pieces. SOLUTION: Design data of the design for a patchwork are divided into a plurality of divided design data z1-z9 based on set piece sizes. And sewing margins Y each having a predetermined width are provided along dividing lines of the plurality of divided design data z1-z9 to form a design data ZP for the patchwork. The data ZP is printed on a white cloth W by means of a printing device, and the cloth W is cut off along the configuration of the design to make a cloth for the patchwork. By sewing only the cloth for the patchwork with a sewing machine so as to conceal the margins Y, a patchwork comprising a plurality of pieces can be easily prepared.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention processes design data of an original image representing a design of a patchwork, divides the design into a plurality of design portions corresponding to a plurality of pieces constituting the patchwork, and divides the design portions. The present invention relates to a technique for creating design data for a patchwork having a sewing margin with a predetermined width along a line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a patchwork is created, a design pattern for the patchwork is created from a desired photographic image or painting to be adopted as the patchwork, and the design pattern is divided into a plurality of design portions. A piece of cloth called a piece suitable for each design part is prepared, and each of the plurality of pieces is sequentially sewn with a sewing machine based on the design pattern to create an original and beautiful patchwork. By the way, how to collect and prepare an optimal cloth piece to be used as a piece representing each of the design parts obtained by dividing the design pattern is an important task for determining whether a patchwork can be created neatly.

[0003] That is, a cloth piece containing a color and a pattern substantially similar to the design part of the design pattern is searched for from a cloth material on hand in stock or purchased from a cloth dealer. However, even if one obtains a plurality of types of cloths that can be used as pieces, it is not possible to know which of these cloths should be used and which part of the cloths should be cut out. While cutting various parts, a plurality of pieces are created one by one.

In recent years, an image processing apparatus using a computer has been developed. An original image of a pattern to be provided to a patchwork is read by an image scanner to create a pattern, and various image processes are performed on the pattern. Since image processing technology has been developed, it is possible to change the color, pattern, shape of the pieces, and even the arrangement of the pieces.However, the collection of cloth pieces suitable for the pieces representing the design portion is not performed by the operator. Rely on experience and knowledge.

[0005]

As described above, when creating a patchwork, how to collect a piece of cloth suitable as a piece representing a design part obtained by dividing a design pattern is determined by creating a beautiful patchwork. Although it is a deciding factor, especially for beginners, there is little experience and knowledge in creating patchwork, and the number of fabrics to be provided for patchwork is very small, so it is very difficult to collect fabric, Since the cutting of a piece of cloth is inexperienced by trial and error, and unfamiliar with sewing, there is a problem that a sewing operation for sewing a plurality of pieces sequentially is complicated. An object of the present invention is to prepare design data for patchwork without preparing any piece of cloth for pieces, and to create design data consisting of divided design data of a plurality of design portions to be provided for patchwork. is there.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a patchwork design data processing apparatus for processing design data of an original image representing a design of a patchwork, and processing a plurality of patterns corresponding to a plurality of pieces constituting the patchwork. A patchwork design data processing device for dividing data into design portions and creating data representing the design portions and sewing margins of a predetermined width along the dividing line, and reads design data of an original image and stores the read design data in a predetermined memory. Symbol data reading means, symbol dividing means for dividing the symbol data into a plurality of divided symbol data, and a plurality of divided symbol data created by the symbol dividing means, the sewing margin data of a predetermined width along each dividing line, And a seam allowance adding means for adding.

When the design data reading means reads the design data of the original image and stores it in a predetermined memory, the design division means divides the design data read from the predetermined memory into a plurality of divided design data. Further, the seam allowance adding means adds seam margin data of a predetermined width along each dividing line to the plurality of divided symbol data created by the symbol dividing means. That is, since the divided design data divided into a plurality of design portions is provided with a sewing margin of a predetermined width along the dividing line, the plurality of divided design data provided with the sewing margin is converted to a white color by an inkjet printer or the like. A patchwork consisting of multiple pieces is created by printing on the fabric, cutting the fabric along the outer shape of the design, creating a patchwork fabric, and sewing the patchwork fabric so as to hide the seam allowance. Can be created.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium storing a pattern data processing program for a patchwork, wherein the pattern data of the original image representing the pattern of the patchwork is processed to provide a plurality of patterns corresponding to a plurality of pieces constituting the patchwork. A patchwork design data processing program for creating data representing the design portion and a seam allowance of a predetermined width along the dividing line. A design data reading routine to be stored in the memory, a design division routine for dividing the design data into a plurality of divided design data, and a plurality of divided design data created by the design division routine; A sewing margin addition routine for adding margin data.

A recording medium storing the patchwork design data processing program includes a design data reading routine for reading the design data of the original image and storing it in a predetermined memory, and a design for dividing the design data into a plurality of divided design data. This recording medium is used for patchwork because it has a dividing routine and a sewing margin adding routine for adding sewing margin data of a predetermined width along each dividing line to a plurality of divided symbol data created by the symbol dividing routine. By attaching to the design data processing device, these design data reading routine, design division routine and sewing allowance addition routine
It works in the same way as the first aspect.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. This embodiment processes the design data of the original image representing the design of the patchwork, divides it into a plurality of design portions corresponding to a plurality of pieces constituting the patchwork, and along the dividing lines of the design portions, This is a case in which the present invention is applied to a patchwork design data processing device that creates design data for a patchwork having a sewing margin with a predetermined width.

As shown in FIG. 1, the patchwork design data processing device 1 basically includes a CRT display 2 capable of displaying design data, a design pattern of a patchwork, a keyboard 3, a coordinate input device, and the like. (A so-called mouse) 4, an image reading device 5 including a color image reader, a flash memory device 6 in which a RAM card 7 can be mounted, and a control main unit 8 for controlling these devices.

The control system of the patchwork symbol data processing apparatus 1 is configured as shown in the block diagram of FIG. The input / output interface (input / output I / F) 27 of the control device 10 provided in the control main unit 8 includes a keyboard 3, a coordinate input device 4, an image reading device 5, a flash memory device 6, an inkjet printer, and the like. Etc. are connected to the printing apparatus P. The control device 10 controls the CP
U11, a ROM 12 and a RAM 13 connected to the CPU 11 via a bus 28 such as a data bus, a hard disk controller (HDC) 14 for controlling a hard disk drive (HDD) 15 having a hard disk (HD) 16, It is composed of an I / F 27 and the like.

Further, a bus 28 has a floppy disk controller (FDC) 29 for controlling a floppy disk drive (FDD) 30 in which a floppy disk 32 is removably mounted, and a CRT for outputting display data to the CRT display 2. A display controller (CRTC) 31 is connected to each of them. The ROM
12 stores a start-up program for starting up the patchwork design data processing apparatus 1 when the power is turned on, similarly to a general host computer.

On the other hand, the HD 16 stores various OSs (operating systems) such as an MS-DOS and a Windows system.
RT display 2, keyboard 3, coordinate input device 4,
Various driver software for enabling the use of the image reading device 5, the flash memory device 6, and the like are incorporated, and various application programs such as image creation software and image editing software, and a patchwork pattern unique to the present application described later. A control program for data processing control and the like are stored.

Thus, when executing various application programs, the MS stored in the HD 16
-Not only various OSs such as DOS, but also word processing software executable on the system, various application programs such as image creation software and image editing software, and a control program for controlling patchwork design data processing. The data is read as needed, and each memory (RAM 13,
The HD 16 and the FD 32) can be used to appropriately operate the application program.

In the RAM 13, as shown in FIG.
A symbol data memory 13a for storing symbol data representing a symbol of a patchwork, a piece size memory 13b for storing data of a set piece size, a divided symbol data memory 13c for storing divided symbol data,
There is provided a patchwork design data memory 13d with a seam allowance for storing design data for a patchwork with a seam allowance to which a seam allowance is added.

Next, the control of the patchwork design data processing performed by the control device 10 of the patchwork design data processing device 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. However, in the figure, reference symbol Si (i = 10, 11, 12,
...) are each step. When the patchwork symbol data processing control is started, first, a symbol data reading process for reading the symbol data of the color original image on which the symbol is set, which is set in the image reading device 5, is executed (S10).

Here, the image reading device 5 reads, for example, the pattern data of the pattern "bear" of the color original picture shown in FIG. 5 as data of three primary colors (R, G, B) as 256 gradation data. . That is, the read color pattern data is a raster-type bitmap, and each of R, G, and B is composed of any one of gradation values from “0” to “255” for each pixel. Symbol data memory 13
a. However, when the design of the color original image is large, the design is divided into several parts, and the divided design is read by the image reading device 5, and thereafter, the data of these divisional patterns is synthesized.

Next, a piece size setting process for setting a piece size is executed and stored in the piece size memory 13b (S11). That is, in the piece size setting process, the piece size setting screen is displayed on the CRT display 2, and the numeric keys of the keyboard 3 are operated to change the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the rectangular piece into numerical values. Is set. Next, based on the vertical dimension and the horizontal dimension which are close to the vertical dimension and the horizontal dimension of this piece, the inputted symbol data is subjected to a symbol division process of dividing the symbol into a vertical direction and a horizontal direction, respectively. Is stored in the divided symbol data memory 13c (S12). For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the symbol data of the symbol "bear" is divided into three in the vertical direction and three in the horizontal direction, and nine divided symbol data z1 to z9 are obtained.

Next, a seam allowance adding process for adding seam allowance margin data of a predetermined width along each division line is performed on the plurality of divided design data obtained in S12, and a patchwork design with a seam allowance is performed. Data is created and stored in the patchwork design data memory 13d with a seam allowance (S
13), end this control and return to the main routine. That is, as shown in FIG. 7, while the data z1 to z9 of each divided symbol obtained in FIG. 6 are read, the four divided lines L1 to L9 are added to the data z1 to z9 of these divided symbols.
4, a sewing margin margin Y of, for example, about 12 mm in width is added, and data z1 to z9 of these nine divided symbols are added.
, And finally the patchwork design data ZP with a seam allowance, representing these seam allowance margins Y.

Here, dotted line data indicating the rectangular outline of the divided symbol data z1 to z9 is added to each of the divided symbol data z1 to z9. Thereby, the seam allowance can be more clearly known. By the way, the divided pattern data z1 to z9 stored in the patchwork design data memory 13d with the seam allowance and the seam allowance Y
As shown in FIG. 7, the printing device P
8, the patchwork fabric WP is created by cutting the fabric along the outer shape of a plurality of design portions located on the outer periphery, as shown in FIG. By simply sewing the sewing machine in a straight line so as to hide the seam allowance Y, a patchwork consisting of a plurality of pieces can be created.

Here, the symbol data processing control for patchwork, in particular, S10 (symbol data reading processing control) corresponds to a symbol data reading means, and also corresponds to a symbol data reading routine. In particular, S12 (symbol division processing control) of the patchwork symbol data processing control corresponds to a symbol division unit, and also corresponds to a symbol division routine. Further, S13 (seam allowance addition process control) of the pattern data processing control for patchwork corresponds to a seam allowance adding means, and also corresponds to a seam allowance addition routine.

On the other hand, in the patchwork design data processing apparatus 1 of the present embodiment, the control program for the patchwork design data processing control is stored in the hard disk 16. Floppy disk 32 and RAM card 7
Or a CD-ROM, or a recording medium such as a ROM card, and the recording medium can be mounted on various patchwork design data processing devices for use. In this case, the floppy disk 32 and the RAM The card 7, a CD-ROM, a ROM card, and the like correspond to a recording medium on which the patchwork design data processing program of the present invention is recorded.

As described above, by simply preparing a symbol for a patchwork, the symbol data of the symbol is divided into a plurality of divided symbol data based on the set piece size, while a plurality of the divided symbols are divided. Since the pattern data ZP for the patchwork provided with the seam allowance Y of a predetermined width along the dividing line L is created in the data, the pattern data ZP is printed on a white cloth by the printing device P, A patchwork consisting of a plurality of pieces can be easily created simply by cutting the fabric along the outer shape of the pattern, creating a patchwork fabric WP, and sewing the patchwork fabric WP with a sewing machine so as to hide a sewing allowance. can do.

Next, a description will be given of a modified embodiment in which the embodiment is partially modified. (1) The design data of the design related to the patchwork may be stored in the design data memory 13a in advance, and the design data may be used. (2) When the design is small, the design data may be enlarged to the size of the patchwork before the dividing process. (3) Further, in the above-described embodiment, the dotted line data indicating the outline of each divided symbol data is created, but these dotted line data may be omitted. (4) The symbol data processing device 1 for patchwork
Although it is configured separately as a personal computer system, it can be appropriately changed without departing from the gist of the present invention, such as being configured as an integrated hardware dedicated to patchwork design data processing.

[0026]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the pattern data reading means, the pattern dividing means, and the sewing allowance adding means are provided, the pattern data for the pattern can be prepared simply by preparing the pattern for the patchwork. Is divided into multiple divided symbol data,
For the plurality of divided design data, design data for a patchwork having a sewing margin with a predetermined width along the division line is created. The pattern data is printed on a white cloth or the like by a printing device, and the cloth is cut along the outer shape of the pattern to create a patchwork cloth. The patchwork cloth is sewing-processed so as to hide a seam allowance. By itself, a patchwork composed of a plurality of pieces can be easily created.

According to the recording medium in which the pattern data processing program for patchwork of claim 2 is recorded, a pattern data reading routine, a pattern dividing routine, and a sewing allowance adding routine are included. The same effects as those of the first aspect can be obtained by mounting a recording medium on which a patchwork design data processing program including a pattern division routine and a seam allowance addition routine is recorded in the patchwork design data processing device.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a patchwork symbol data processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a control system of the symbol data processing apparatus for patchwork.

FIG. 3 is a table illustrating a memory configuration provided in a RAM of a control device.

FIG. 4 is a schematic flowchart of patchwork symbol data processing control.

FIG. 5 is a diagram of a pattern “bear” that is a color original image.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram in which symbol data is divided into a vertical direction and a horizontal direction.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of design data for patchwork with a seam allowance.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a patchwork completed using the patchwork fabric.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Design data processing device for patchwork 7 RAM card 10 Control device 11 CPU 12 ROM 13 RAM 13a Design data memory 16 Hard disk 32 Floppy disk

Claims (2)

[Claims] An image data of an original image representing a pattern of a patchwork is processed and divided into a plurality of pattern portions corresponding to a plurality of pieces constituting the patchwork, and the pattern portion and a predetermined width along a dividing line are divided. A pattern data processing device for patchwork for creating data representing a seam margin, a pattern data reading means for reading the pattern data of the original image and storing the read pattern data in a predetermined memory, and a plurality of divided pattern data for the pattern data. Pattern dividing means, and a sewing margin adding means for adding sewing margin data of a predetermined width along each dividing line to a plurality of divided symbol data created by the symbol dividing means, Design data processing device for patchwork. 2. Processing design data of an original image representing a design of a patchwork, dividing the design data into a plurality of design portions corresponding to a plurality of pieces constituting the patchwork, and having a predetermined width along the design portion and the dividing line. A recording medium storing a pattern data processing program for patchwork for creating data representing a seam margin, a pattern data reading routine for reading the pattern data of the original image and storing it in a predetermined memory, and a plurality of the pattern data. And a sewing margin addition routine for adding data of a sewing margin having a predetermined width along each division line to the plurality of divided symbol data created by the symbol division routine. A recording medium having recorded thereon a patchwork design data processing program.