Abstract: A carriage allows accompaniment of a movable yarn guide as well as a yarn carrier, and accompanies the movable yarn guide with the yarn carrier. If there is a course where the accompaniment of the movable yarn guide is not possible, the movable yarn guide is accompanied beforehand to a position in a preceding course where the accompaniment becomes possible.

Abstract: A decision is made as to whether a fabric to be knitted is tubular or flat, and density is corrected such that knitting-start density is smaller and knitting-end density is larger for a tubular fabric. Knitting-start density is larger and knitting-end density is smaller for a flat fabric. A variable density section is provided between the end part and the central part of the fabric thus correcting the density gradually. Stitches at the end part of the fabric are prevented from becoming uneven as compared with the stitches in the central part without requiring additional hardware.

Abstract: The center line and lines at the right and left end parts are inputted to a base image from which a texture image is to be mapped, and a position of the base image closest to the view point is inputted as a point closest to the user. Right side of the point closest to the user of the body is approximated by one quarter of circle, and the left side is approximated by another quarter of circle so as to generate an elliptical arc representative of the horizontal cross-sectional shape of the body. The texture image is then mapped to the body using that elliptical arc. Thus mapping of the texture image to the body can be performed easily.

Abstract: A knitting method provides an easy-to-wear knitted tubular knitted fabric which gives little stretching feeling and exhibits high fitness upon wearing by joining at least three tubular parts.

Abstract: A movement amount is determined for each of a plurality of stitches on a knitting fabric on the basis of relative positions between a stitch and stitches on the upper, lower, left, and right sides thereof in accordance with predetermined rules, and the stitch is moved. Movement of the stitch is repeated until the position of the stitch is converged. The stitch is then positioned at the converged value of the stitch position and displayed.

Abstract: Coordinates and a pen-stroke strength are input from a stylus. A section between the input coordinates is interpolated and needle fall points are determined such that the stitch width varies in accordance with the pen-stroke strength. Moreover, the stitch angle and the stitch density with respect to the stylus trace are input as parameters and used to determine the needle fall points. The determined stitch is displayed in real time.

Abstract: A body and sleeves of a designed virtual seamless knit garment are expanded into an elliptic cylindrical shape and tentatively positioned with respect to a human model. Each part of the expanded seamless garment is moved towards each axis of the torso and both arms of the human model and is tentatively worn. The stitch arrangement in the worn garment is smoothed in the horizontal and vertical directions and the stitch positions are roughly corrected. Next, the stitch position of each part of the garment is repeatedly smoothed so as to obtain a virtual garment after wearing. It is possible to perform simulation of the state in which the knit garment is worn by a person, on the basis of a reliable model involving little computational effort.

Abstract: A knitting machine, a method of working yarn by the knitting machine, and a controller for working yarn by the knitting machine and its program. In the method, a carriage is controllably stopped at a point where a yarn passage length between a yarn working device and a knitting needle obtained by assuming that a buffer length on a tension arm is maximum matches a residual knitting length left before knitting at a point where yarn working is performed. When the carriage is stopped, the buffer length of a first arm is measured, a yarn is delivered from the yarn working device by an amount of difference between the buffer length and the maximum value thereof, and the yarn is worked in synchronism with the application of a tension to the yarn by releasing a second arm. Thus, the yarn can be worked at specified positions.

Abstract: A knitting operation and a missing operation are alternately performed at the end portion of a knit fabric around a neck hole to reduce stitch density to less than that on the inside of the knit fabric, the stitch at the end part of the knit fabric is moved every three stitch courses to reduce a knitting width in increments of one stitch, and the stitch is formed at an empty needle resulting from the movement. Knitting conditions are also excellent since a neck hole or an armhole can be formed at a large slope such as two stitches in the horizontal direction every six stitch courses, and holing in the neck hole or an armhole can also be prevented, while, in addition, the wales are not laterally moved on the inside of the knit fabric.

Abstract: A plurality of control magnetic poles 33n-34n are provided in each selection unit of a selection actuator, and the upstream control magnetic poles 33n, s and downstream control magnetic poles 34n, s are controlled independently based on the relative positions thereof to selectors. The selectors can be selected with a pitch approximately half the pitch at which selection is possible with the conventional selection actuator and the time used for selecting each selector can be extended. Therefore, a knitting member can be reliably selected even in a fine-gauge knitting machine.

Abstract: The shape of a leather sheet is inputted though a digitizer. The shape of the leather sheet is disposed inside a rectangle, and dummy parts are arranged around the leather sheet. Assuming the dummy parts as arranged parts, other parts are blocked and other parts are arranged inside the shape of the leather sheet. Attributes such as the orientation and presence/absence of the scratch are added to the shape data on the leather sheet, and parts are so arranged as to match the orientation and scratch allowability suited to the parts. Even a patterning device which handles only a rectangular shape can produce patterns on a sheet of irregular shape such as a leather sheet.

Abstract: A knitting machine, a method of working yarn by the knitting machine, and a controller for working yarn by the knitting machine and its program. In the method, a carriage is controllably stopped at a point where a yarn passage length between a yarn working device and a knitting needle obtained by assuming that a buffer length on a tension arm is maximum matches a residual knitting length left before knitting at a point where yarn working is performed. When the carriage is stopped, the buffer length of a first arm is measured, a yarn is delivered from the yarn working device by an amount of difference between the buffer length and the maximum value thereof, and the yarn is worked in synchronism with the application of a tension to the yarn by releasing a second arm. Thus, the yarn can be worked at specified positions.

Abstract: A yarn feeder is caused to perform a single reciprocating motion in a section in which the boundary of an intarsia pattern varies discontinuously such that a jump occurs between a yarn feeding end position of the yarn feeder and a following yarn feeding start position, and thus the stitches of the section in question are formed in halves between an outward route and a return route. As a result, yarn jumps do not occur even when the boundary of the intarsia pattern varies discontinuously.

Abstract: A body and sleeves of a designed virtual knit garment seamless is expanded into an elliptic cylindrical shape and temporarily positioned with respect to a human model. Each part of the seamless garment is moved to each axis of the torso and both arms of the human model and temporarily worn. The stitch arrangement in the worn garment is smoothed in the horizontal and vertical directions and the stitch position is roughly corrected. Next, the stitch position of each part of the garment is repeatedly smoothed so as to obtain a virtual garment after wearing. The distortions caused by moving the virtual garment toward the axis of the torso and the axes of the arms are removed by the approximate correction and the smoothing so as to obtain a natural simulation image.

Abstract: A body and sleeves of a designed virtual seamless knit garment are expanded into an elliptic cylindrical shape and tentatively positioned with respect to a human model. Each part of the expanded seamless garment is moved towards each axis of the torso and both arms of the human model and is tentatively worn. The stitch arrangement in the worn garment is smoothed in the horizontal and vertical directions and the stitch positions are roughly corrected. Next, the stitch position of each part of the garment is repeatedly smoothed so as to obtain a virtual garment after wearing. It is possible to perform simulation of the state in which the knit garment is worn by a person, on the basis of a reliable model involving little computational effort.

Abstract: A captured image of an object is input twice using a white background and a black background, after which the opacity D and the color image X of the object are obtained to yield an object image. It is possible to easily create a high-quality real image.

Abstract: Coordinates and a pen-stroke strength are input from a stylus. A section between the input coordinates is interpolated and needle fall points are determined such that the stitch width varies in accordance with the pen-stroke strength. Moreover, the stitch angle and the stitch density with respect to the stylus trace are input as parameters and used to determine the needle fall points. The determined stitch is displayed in real time.

Abstract: Both sleeves and front and back bodies are joined using gores such that the gores between the front body and both front sleeves become larger than the gores between the back body and both back sleeves. The knitted fabric is rotated such that, for example, the border between the front side and the backside of the left sleeve is positioned between front and back needle beds. In this state, the left sleeve is joined to the front body. The knitted fabric is rotated again such that the border between the front side and the backside of the right sleeve is positioned between the front and back needle beds for joining the right sleeve to the front body.

Abstract: A movement amount is determined for each of a plurality of stitches on a knitting fabric on the basis of relative positions between a stitch and stitches on the upper, lower, left, and right sides thereof in accordance with predetermined rules, and the stitch is moved. Movement of the stitch is repeated until the position of the stitch is converged. The stitch is then positioned at the converged value of the stitch position and displayed.

Abstract: A gore as a portion of a continuous elongated knitted fabric in a wale direction like a flared skirt is used. A knitted fabric formed by connecting a plurality of the gores in a course direction is designed. At the time of designing a pattern spread over a plurality of gores, the pattern is designed on the outer shape image as a composite image of the gores, and the design is divided into gores. At the time of assigning the pattern to the gores, it is checked whether any narrowing course is present in the pattern. If any narrowing course is present, on the upper side of the narrowing course, the left and right borders of the pattern are shifted toward the center of the knitted fabric, by the amount corresponding to the number of narrowing stitches from the center of the knitted fabric or the like.