Patents Assigned to Softfoundry, Inc.
  • Automated embroidery stitching
    Publication number: 20020183886
    Abstract: A method for embroidering includes receiving a digitized representation of an image, determining grain structures for a plurality of locations in the digitized representation, the plurality of locations including a first location and a second location, embroidering a representation of the first location using cross stitch patterns, when a grain structure for the first location indicates a bi-directional grain structure, and embroidering a representation of the first location using uni-directional stitch patterns, when the grain structure for the first location indicates a uni-directional grain structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: Softfoundry, Inc.
    Inventor: Kuan-Lan Oliver Wang
  • Automated embroidery stitching
    Patent number: 6370442
    Abstract: A method for embroidering includes receiving a digitized representation of an image, determining grain structures for a plurality of locations in the digitized representation, the plurality of locations including a first location and a second location, embroidering a representation of the first location using cross stitch patterns, when a grain structure for the first location indicates a bi-directional grain structure, and embroidering a representation of the first location using uni-directional stitch patterns, when the grain structure for the first location indicates a uni-directional grain structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Softfoundry, Inc.
    Inventor: Oliver Kuan-Lan Wang