STITCH PROCESSOR

摘要

A method of controlling an embroidery machine (3) using a stitch processor (1) by interpreting a low level language program containing stitch commands and varying the stitch commands to vary certain parameters of the design. The parameters which may be varied in any combination thereof include any of the following: stitch density, stitch length, size of the design independent of the stitch density, stitch spacing as a function of stitch length, orientation of the design, mirror image of the design and removing irregularities in the design. The parameters to be varied are entered by a keyboard/display (2). The program may be read from a paper tape reader (4), directly from a computer system (5) used to generate the original stitch commands or any other input device. The modified stitch commands may be fed directly to an embroidery machine or stored in any of the usual methods for communicating to an embroidery machine at a later date.