Sewing machine and computer program product

Abstract

A sewing machine includes a storage portion that stores pattern information and implement information for each of a plurality of patterns, a selecting portion that selects a desired pattern as a selected pattern, a first specifying portion that specifies, as one or more required implements, one or more sewing implements that are required in order to sew the selected pattern, a reading portion that reads, as tag information, information that is stored in one or more wireless tags and that identifies one or more prepared implements, a second specifying portion that specifies the one or more prepared implements based on the tag information that has been read by the reading portion, and an informing control portion that, in a case where there are one or more unprepared required implements, causes an informing portion to inform at least unprepared required implement information.

1 . A sewing machine, comprising:
 a storage portion that stores pattern information and implement information for each of a plurality of patterns in association with one another, the pattern information being information that identifies each of the patterns, and the implement information being information that identifies, among a plurality of sewing implements, one or more sewing implements that are required in order to sew each of the patterns, the sewing implement being an implement that can be used for sewing and that can be replaceably mounted in the sewing machine;   a selecting portion that selects a desired pattern as a selected pattern from among the plurality of the patterns;   a first specifying portion that references the pattern information and the implement information that are stored in the storage portion and specifies, as one or more required implements, one or more sewing implements that are required in order to sew the selected pattern that has been selected by the selecting portion;   a reading portion that reads, as tag information, information that is stored in one or more wireless tags that are respectively attached to one or more prepared implements and that identifies the one or more prepared implements, the one or more prepared implements being one or more sewing implements that are located within a communication range of the reading portion;   a second specifying portion that specifies the one or more prepared implements based on the tag information that has been read by the reading portion; and   an informing control portion that, based on the one or more required implements that have been specified by the first specifying portion and on the one or more prepared implements that have been specified by the second specifying portion, in a case where there are one or more unprepared required implements, causes an informing portion to inform at least information that pertains to the one or more unprepared required implements as unprepared required implement information, the one or more unprepared required implements being one or more required implements that are not included among the one or more prepared implements.   
     
     
         2 . The sewing machine according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the sewing implements include at least one of a sewing needle, a thread spool, a presser foot, and an embroidery frame,   
     
     
         3 . The sewing machine according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the informing control portion, based on the one or more required implements that have been specified by the first specifying portion and on the one or more prepared implements that have been specified by the second specifying portion, causes the informing portion to inform the unprepared required implement information and prepared required implement information that is information that pertains to one or more required implements that are included among the one or more prepared implements.   
     
     
         4 . A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising instructions for causing a processor of a sewing machine to execute the steps of:
 accepting a desired pattern as a selected pattern selected from among a plurality of patterns;   specifying as one or more required implements, by referencing pattern information and implement information, one or more sewing implements that are required in order to sew the selected pattern that has been accepted, the pattern information and the implement information being stored in a storage portion for each of the plurality of the patterns, the pattern information being information that identifies each of the patterns, and the implement information being information that identifies, among a plurality of sewing implements, one or more sewing implements that are required in order to sew each of the patterns, the sewing implement being implements that can be used for sewing and that can be replaceably mounted in the sewing machine;   specifying one or more prepared implements based on tag information that has been read by a reading portion, the tag information being information that is stored in one or more wireless tags that are respectively attached to the one or more prepared implements and that identifies the one or more prepared implements, and the one or more prepared implements being one or more sewing implements that are located within a communication range of the reading portion; and   causing an informing portion to inform at least information that pertains to one or more unprepared required implements as unprepared required implement information, in a case where there are one or more unprepared required implements, based on the one or more required implements that have been specified and on the one or more prepared implements that have been specified, the one or more unprepared required implements being the one or more required implements that are not included among the prepared implements.   
     
     
         5 . The computer program product according to  claim 4 , wherein
 the sewing implements include at least one of a sewing needle, a thread spool, a presser foot, and an embroidery frame.   
     
     
         6 . The computer program product according to  claim 4 , wherein
 causing the informing portion to inform the unprepared required implement information and prepared required implement information that is information that pertains to the one or more required implements that are included among the one or more prepared implements, based on one or more the required implements that have been specified and on the one or more prepared implements that have been specified.