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Editing and revision system
Assignee: Intercontinental Systems Inc
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Filing: 1968-05-20
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Granted: 1971-05-18
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Expires: 1988-05-20
Abstract
Abstract An electronic system for editing and controlling the format of information reproduced on a sheet of paper or other recording device from an automatic input system. The edit control system may be divided into two of the parts, the first of which is the edit control portion and the second is the margin control portion. The edit control portion enables the user to automatically stop the input device after a plurality of preselected information groups have been sensed, as for example a character, a word, a line, a sentence, or a paragraph. The particular group to stop the system is selected by actuating the desired mode switch. This portion of the system may be operated in any one of the print, nonprint or skip modes and the operator may manually enter information onto the recording device after the the automatic input system has been stopped by the edit control. In this way corrections may be easily entered onto the recording device and the information input device may be corrected. The margin control provides different degrees of control, designated herein as the margin control, the automatic edit control and the tab control modes of operation. The margin control mode of operation controls the right-hand margin of the output printer according to the preset margin stop to insure that information is not printed on the paper beyond a preselected extension of the margin stop, irrespective of the length of the information group being recorded. This preselected extension is designated the right-hand margin zone and is adapted to cause preselected automatic operations of the automatic input device. The automatic edit mode is utilized to specifically control the data printed in the right-hand margin zone to permit the operator to manually control the amount of data printed in the right-hand margin zone. The tab control mode controls the left side margin or the number of tabs starting from the left-hand margin for a given data group. With the system in the margin and tab control modes, the system counts and stores the number of tabs on the first line of the data group, and generates the same number of tabs after a carrier return is acted upon. This stored number of tabs is skipped from the reader after the first line in the data group.
Inventors
- 👤 Donald R Bernier
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-26 05:35
CPC Classifications
B; B41; B41J; B41J5/00; B41J5/30; G; G06; G06F; G06F3/00; G06F3/09
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 50
Claim 1
Independent Claim
227 words
Textual data editing and revision apparatus for controlling the operation of a keyboard device such as a manually or automatically operable printer during automatic operation in accordance with input data derived from a data input source such as a reader and a coded data storage device, said printer being automatically operable to process textual data arranged in a plurality of different data groups such as characters, words, lines, sentences, and paragraphs with data groups being serially associated and arranged in successive lines of variable length terminating in a margin zone of predetermined length, stop means for automatically terminating automatic operation of the printer after completion of processing of selected ones of the data groups, mode selection means actuable to select one of the data groups for terminating operation of the printer, each of said plurality of data groups having at least one characteristic feature, bistable storage means having a first state and a second state, said bistable storage means being in said first state in response to said the sensing of a characteristic feature of a selected data group and the actuation of said mode selecting means corresponding to said selected data group, and said stop means being energizable in response to said first state of said storage means for stopping the data input source and permitting the manual entry of data into an output storage device.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
227 words
Textual data editing and revision apparatus for controlling the operation of a keyboard device such as a manually or automatically operable printer during automatic operation in accordance with input data derived from a data input source such as a reader and a coded data storage device, said printer being automatically operable to process textual data arranged in a plurality of different data groups such as characters, words, lines, sentences, and paragraphs with data groups being serially associated and arranged in successive lines of variable length terminating in a margin zone of predetermined length, stop means for automatically terminating automatic operation of the printer after completion of processing of selected ones of the data groups, mode selection means actuable to select one of the data groups for terminating operation of the printer, each of said plurality of data groups having at least one characteristic feature, bistable storage means having a first state and a second state, said bistable storage means being in said first state in response to said the sensing of a characteristic feature of a selected data group and the actuation of said mode selecting means corresponding to said selected data group, and said stop means being energizable in response to said first state of said storage means for stopping the data input source and permitting the manual entry of data into an output storage device.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
15 words
The invention of claim 1 wherein said bistable storage means includes a semiconductor latch circuit.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
The invention of claim 2 wherein said latch circuit is a flip-flop circuit having a set input for switching said circuit to said first state and a reset input.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
19 words
The apparatus of claim 1 further including an input gate circuit having an input from said mode selecting means.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
52 words
The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said gate circuit further includes an input signal representative of one of said characteristic features, said gate circuit generating a switching signal to switch said latch circuit to said first state in response to the coincidence of said mode selecting means input and said input signal.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
35 words
The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said stop means includes a stop gate, said stop gate generating a disabling signal for said input source in response to a data signal subsequent to said characteristic feature.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
33 words
The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said mode selecting means includes a plurality of edit switches, said edit switches including at least one of a word, line, sentence and paragraph mode of operation.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
39 words
The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said characteristic feature is a coded space, said bistable storage means being switched to said first state in response to the sensing of said coded space and the selection of said Word mode.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
18 words
The apparatus of claim 8 further including an input gate circuit having an input from said mode-selecting means.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
51 words
The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said gate circuit further includes an input signal representative of one of said characteristic features, said gate circuit generating a switching signal to switch said latch circuit to said first state in response to the coincidence of said mode-selecting means input and said input signal.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
35 words
The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said stop means includes a stop gate, said stop gate generating a disabling signal for said input source in response to a data signal subsequent to said characteristic feature.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
37 words
The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said characteristic feature is a coded carriage return, said bistable storage means being switched to said first state in response to the sensing of said carriage return and said line mode.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
63 words
The apparatus of claim 12 further including an input gate circuit having an input from said mode-selecting means, said gate circuit further including an input signal representative of one of said characteristic features, said gate circuit generating a switching signal to switch said latch circuit to said first state in response to the coincidence of said mode-selecting means input and said input signal.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
35 words
The apparatus of claim 13 wherein said stop means includes a stop gate, said stop gate generating a disabling signal for said input source in response to a data signal subsequent to said characteristic feature.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
56 words
The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said characteristic feature includes a coded punctuation followed by at least one of a space, tab or carriage return, said bistable storage means being switched to said first state in response to the sensing of one of said space, tab and carriage return and the selection of said sentence mode.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
65 words
The apparatus of claim 15 further including an input gate circuit having an input from said mode selecting means, said gate circuit further including an input signal representative of one of said characteristic features, said gate circuit generating a switching signal to switch said latch circuit to said first state in response to the coincidence of said mode selecting means input and said input signal.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
35 words
The apparatus of claim 16 wherein said stop means includes a stop gate, said stop gate generating a disabling signal for said input source in response to a data signal subsequent to said characteristic feature.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
45 words
The apparatus of claim 16 wherein said apparatus includes punctuation storage means, the sensing of the punctuation being stored in said punctuation storage means for a period at least as long as the period of sensing a next subsequent space, tab or carriage return code.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
50 words
The apparatus of claim 7 wherein said characteristic feature is a shift or print code followed by a first and second carriage return, said bistable storage means being switched to said first state in response to the sensing of said first carriage return and the selection of said paragraph mode.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
33 words
The apparatus of claim 19 wherein said first carriage return is stored for a period which is at least as long as the period to initiate the sensing of said second carriage return.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
214 words
Textual data editing and revision apparatus for controlling the operation of a keyboard device such as a manually or automatically operable printer during automatic operations in accordance with input data derived from a data input source such as a reader and a coded data storage device, said printer being automatically operable to process textual data arranged in a plurality of different data groups such as characters, words, lines, sentences, and paragraphs with data groups being serially associated and arranged in successive lines of variable length terminating in a margin zone of predetermined length, margin control circuit means for establishing a margin control mode of operation of the printer, means for establishing a margin zone of predeteRmined length having spaced boundaries including switch means associated with the printer and actuable thereby to establish one boundary of said margin zone and semiconductor bistable storage means for indicating the in-margin zone and out-of-margin zone condition of the printer and having a first state and a second state, said storage means being in said first state in response to the actuation of said switch means to indicate an at-the-one-boundary-of-said-margin zone condition of the printer and circuit means for changing the state of said storage means to said second state to indicate an at-the-other-boundary-of-said-margin zone condition of the printer.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
214 words
Textual data editing and revision apparatus for controlling the operation of a keyboard device such as a manually or automatically operable printer during automatic operations in accordance with input data derived from a data input source such as a reader and a coded data storage device, said printer being automatically operable to process textual data arranged in a plurality of different data groups such as characters, words, lines, sentences, and paragraphs with data groups being serially associated and arranged in successive lines of variable length terminating in a margin zone of predetermined length, margin control circuit means for establishing a margin control mode of operation of the printer, means for establishing a margin zone of predeteRmined length having spaced boundaries including switch means associated with the printer and actuable thereby to establish one boundary of said margin zone and semiconductor bistable storage means for indicating the in-margin zone and out-of-margin zone condition of the printer and having a first state and a second state, said storage means being in said first state in response to the actuation of said switch means to indicate an at-the-one-boundary-of-said-margin zone condition of the printer and circuit means for changing the state of said storage means to said second state to indicate an at-the-other-boundary-of-said-margin zone condition of the printer.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
53 words
The apparatus of claim 21 wherein said storage means includes a flip-flop circuit, gate circuit means connected to the set side of the flip-flop to switch the flip-flop to the first state in response to an output signal from said gate, said gate means being responsive to the sensing of said margin zone.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
28 words
The apparatus of claim 22 further including a carriage return flip-flop, said carriage return flip-flop being set to produce a carriage return signal for actuation of the printer.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
33 words
The apparatus of claim 23 wherein said carriage return signal is generated in response to the sensing of at least one of a tab, space, hyphen or carriage return in the margin zone.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
21 words
The apparatus of claim 24 wherein said carriage return signal is generated by a print code following a carriage return signal.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
57 words
The apparatus of claim 24 wherein one of a space or tab code is converted to a carriage return code and including storage flip-flop means for storing said space or tab code, said storage flip-flop being connected to said carriage return flip-flop, and gate means for generating a coded carriage return signal for use by the printer.
Claim 29
Dependent Claim
71 words
The apparatus of claim 22 further including carriage return storage means for storing a sensed input carriage return signal, gate means for sensing a print code and generating an output signal, a space-tab flip-flop gate means responsive to both said carriage return signal and said print signal for setting said space-tab flip-flop, and output gate means for generating a coded space signal in response to the setting of said space-tab flip-flop.
Claim 30
Dependent Claim
124 words
Apparatus for controlling the operation of a data processing system printer having printing mechanism for printing characters and functional mechanism for selecting the location of printing of characters, first means for sensing a first characteristic operation of the printer, second means enabled in response to the sensing of said first characteristic operation for counting a first succession of second characteristic functional operations including first storage means for storing the count of said second characteristic functional operation, comparison circuit means for counting a second succession of said second characteristic functional operations, and means limiting said second succession of second characteristic functional operations when the count of said second succession bears a preselected relationship to the count of said first succession of second characteristic functional operations.
Claim 31
Dependent Claim
124 words
Apparatus for controlling the operation of a data processing system printer having printing mechanism for printing characters and functional mechanism for selecting the location of printing of characters, first means for sensing a first characteristic operation of the printer, second means enabled in response to the sensing of said first characteristic operation for counting a first succession of second characteristic functional operations including first storage means for storing the count of said second characteristic functional operation, comparison circuit means for counting a second succession of said second characteristic functional operations, and means limiting said second succession of second characteristic functional operations when the count of said second succession bears a preselected relationship to the count of said first succession of second characteristic functional operations.
Claim 32
Dependent Claim
23 words
The apparatus of claim 28 wherein said first characteristic is an indication of the start of a block of data having successive lines.
Claim 33
Dependent Claim
14 words
The apparatus of claim 29 wherein said first characteristic is a double carriage return.
Claim 34
Dependent Claim
40 words
The apparatus of claim 30 wherein said first means includes bistable storage means having a set state and a reset state, said storage means being switched to said set state in response to the sensing of said second carriage return.
Claim 35
Dependent Claim
38 words
The apparatus of claim 31 wherein said second means includes gate means having an input circuit connected to said bistable storage means, said gate means being enabled in response to the set state of said bistable storage means.
Claim 36
Dependent Claim
36 words
The apparatus of claim 32 wherein said bistable storage means is switched to the reset state in response to the sensing of a carriagE return, said gate means being disabled in response to said reset state.
Claim 37
Dependent Claim
46 words
The system of claim 28 wherein said first storage means includes a first binary counter circuit and said comparison circuit includes a second binary counter circuit, the outputs of said first and second binary counters being compared during the generation of certain successive lines of data.
Claim 38
Dependent Claim
39 words
The apparatus of claim 34 wherein said comparison circuit means includes a plurality of gate circuits, each of said gate circuits having input circuits for receiving selected combinations of output configurations of each of said first and second counters.
Claim 39
Dependent Claim
31 words
The apparatus of claim 35 wherein said limiting means includes a skip circuit for skipping subsequent second characteristic operations after achieving coincidence of the outputs of said first and second counters.
Claim 40
Dependent Claim
13 words
The apparatus of claim 28 wherein said second characteristic operation includes tab operations.
Claim 41
Dependent Claim
14 words
The apparatus of claim 37 wherein said first characteristic is a double carriage return.
Claim 42
Dependent Claim
40 words
The apparatus of claim 38 wherein said first means includes bistable storage means having a set state and a reset state, said storage means being switched to said set state in response to the sensing of said second carriage return.
Claim 43
Dependent Claim
81 words
The apparatus of claim 39 wherein said first storage means includes a first binary counter circuit and said comparison circuit includes a second binary counter circuit, the outputs of said first and second binary counters being compared during the generation of certain successive lines of data, and wherein said comparison circuit means includes a plurality of gate circuits, each of said gate circuit having input circuits for receiving selected combinations of output configurations of each of said first and second counters.
Claim 44
Dependent Claim
143 words
Apparatus for controlling the operation of a data processing system keyboard device such as a printer operable manually or automatically, means for providing continuous automatic operation of said printer from an automatic data input device, means for establishing a controlled zone in the operation of the printer, means for sensing the entry of the printer into said controlled zone, means for interrupting the continuous automatic operation of said printer upon entry into said controlled zone and for resuming continuous automatic operation upon leaving said controlled zone, circuit means for single cycling said system in said controlled zone including pulse means independent of said automatic data input device for generating a pulse to initiate each cycle within said controlled zone and sensing means for resuming continuous automatic operation of said printer upon receipt of a pulse characteristic of a predetermined function of the printer.
Claim 45
Dependent Claim
143 words
Apparatus for controlling the operation of a data processing system keyboard device such as a printer operable manually or automatically, means for providing continuous automatic operation of said printer from an automatic data input device, means for establishing a controlled zone in the operation of the printer, means for sensing the entry of the printer into said controlled zone, means for interrupting the continuous automatic operation of said printer upon entry into said controlled zone and for resuming continuous automatic operation upon leaving said controlled zone, circuit means for single cycling said system in said controlled zone including pulse means independent of said automatic data input device for generating a pulse to initiate each cycle within said controlled zone and sensing means for resuming continuous automatic operation of said printer upon receipt of a pulse characteristic of a predetermined function of the printer.
Claim 46
Dependent Claim
49 words
The apparatus of claim 41 wherein the system includes a data editing and revision system, said controlled zone being a right-hand margin zone, and said circuit means including means for sensing an operation or print code from the input device and stopping the input device after each sensed code.
Claim 47
Dependent Claim
18 words
The apparatus of claim 42 wherein said pulse means starts the input device in response to each pulse.
Claim 48
Dependent Claim
14 words
The apparatus of claim 43 wherein said pulse means includes manually actuate switch means.
Claim 49
Dependent Claim
32 words
The apparatus of claim 44 further including circuit means for generating a carriage return signal in response to sensing at least one of a carriage return, hyphen, space or tab operation code.
Claim 50
Dependent Claim
27 words
The apparatus of claim 45 wherein a hyphen code is generated in response to at least one of a carriage return, hyphen, space or tab operation code.
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