Patent 7493867 was granted and assigned to Juki on February, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A continuous line is set on a display region of an operation panel provided in a sewing machine M and a plurality of sewing patterns is automatically arranged along the continuous line based on sewing data selected from a ROM. Integrated sewing data related to a continuous sewing pattern including the sewing patterns is created, an operation of the sewing machine is controlled based on the integrated sewing data so that the continuous sewing pattern can be sewn onto a cloth.