Read-out and code translating system

Claim 1

A READ-OUT SYSTEM FOR AN APPARATUS HAVING A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS WHICH INDICATE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS BY COMBINATIONS OF DISTINCTIVE POTENTIALS ON DIFFERENT ONES OF SAID TERMINALS AND THE COMPLEMENTS OF SAID CHARACTERS BY COMBINATIONS OF DISTINCTIVE POTENTIALS ON DIFFERENT OTHERS OF SAID TERMINALS, RESPECTIVELY, COMPRISING THE COMBINATION OF A CHARACTER RECORDING DEVICE DIFFERENTIALLY MOVABLE INTO DIFFERENT POSITIONS FOR RECORDING DIFFERENT RESPECTIVE ONES OF SAID CHARACTERS, MEANS FOR ADVANCING SAID RECORDING THROUGH SAID POSITIONS, A MATRIX OF ELEMENTS ARRANGED IN PATTERNS APPROPRIATE TO THE POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS OF DISTINCTIVE POTENTIALS ON SAID TERMINALS, EACH OF SAID PATTERNS COMPRISING TWO CHARACTER GROUPS, ONE OF SAID GROUPS OF EACH OF SAID PATTERNS REPRESENTING A DIFFERENT SAID CHARACTER AND THE OTHER OF SAID GROUPS REPRESENTING THE COMPLEMENT OF SAID CHARACTERS; A SCANNING DEVICE FOR SAID ELEMENTS, MEANS OPERABLE CONCOMITANTLY WITH SAID ADVANCING MEANS FOR EFFECTING RELATIVE SCANNING MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID SCANNING DEVICE AND SAID PATTERNS OF ELEMENTS WHEREBY TO CAUSE SAID SCANNING DEVICE TO CONCURRENTLY SCAN A SAID PATTERN REPRESENTING A SAID CHARACTER WHEN SAID RECORDING DEVICE MOVES INTO A RECORDING POSITION FOR SAID LAST MENTIONED CHARACTER, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SCANNING DEVICE UPON SCANNING A PATTERN OF SAID ELEMENTS APPROPRIATE TO THE SAID TERMINALS HAVING DISTINCTIVE POTENTIALS THEREON FOR EFFECTING RECORDING BY SAID RECORDING DEVICE.