US4084198A
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Card scanning video system
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1976-03-09
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Granted: 1978-04-11
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Expires: 1996-03-09
Abstract
Abstract An apparatus and method are provided for transducing information with respect to record cards such as oblong cards containing magnetic recording material. In one form, a magnetic record card is made to conform or extend parallel to the cylindrical surface of a drum supporting a magnetic transducer which rotates to scan one or more selected tracks of the card. The card may extend in a circular or helical path while scanning occurs or may be driven in such a path during scanning.
Inventors
- 👤 Jerome H. Lemelson
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-27 17:43
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/21; H04N1/2166; H04N1/217; H04N1/2175; G; G06; G06K; G06K7/00; G06K7/08; G06K7/082; G06K7/083; G06K7/084; G07; G07C; G07C9/00; G07C9/20; G07C9/22; G07C9/25; G07C9/253; G11; G11B; G11B15/00; G11B15/675; G11B15/68; G11B15/6895; G11B25/00; G11B25/04; G11B27/00; G11B27/02; G11B27/10; G11B27/102; G11B27/19; G11B27/28; G11B27/30; G11B27/3027; G11B27/32; G11B27/322; H04N1/00127; H04N1/00326; H04N1/2104
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 22
Claim 1
Independent Claim
251 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus for reproducing signals from magnetic cards and visually displaying the reproduced information for monitoring purposes comprising in combination: first means for receiving a magnetic record card at a first location wherein said magnetic record card contains full-frame video picture signals magnetically recorded on a plurality of parallel magnetic recording tracks extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of said card, said first means including means for arcuately deforming said card at said first location, second means including magnetic transducing means defined by a magnetic reproduction head disposed adjacent the card which is arcuately deformed at said first location, third means for effecting relative movement between said card and said magnetic reproduction head in a first direction to cause said head to scan a selected track of said card, fourth means for causing relative movement between said transducing means and said record card in a second direction to permit said magnetic reproduction head to scan a plurality of the tracks of a card received and deformed by said first means, fifth means for energizing said transducing means, sixth means for controlling said fifth means to energize said transducing means when said magnetic reproduction head is aligned with and scans a selected track of a card, and seventh means including a video monitor connected to receive the signals generated by said magnetic transducing means and to utilize same to generate images of the information defined by said full-frame video picture signals recorded on a card scanned by said magnetic transducing means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
251 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus for reproducing signals from magnetic cards and visually displaying the reproduced information for monitoring purposes comprising in combination: first means for receiving a magnetic record card at a first location wherein said magnetic record card contains full-frame video picture signals magnetically recorded on a plurality of parallel magnetic recording tracks extending transverse to the longitudinal axis of said card, said first means including means for arcuately deforming said card at said first location, second means including magnetic transducing means defined by a magnetic reproduction head disposed adjacent the card which is arcuately deformed at said first location, third means for effecting relative movement between said card and said magnetic reproduction head in a first direction to cause said head to scan a selected track of said card, fourth means for causing relative movement between said transducing means and said record card in a second direction to permit said magnetic reproduction head to scan a plurality of the tracks of a card received and deformed by said first means, fifth means for energizing said transducing means, sixth means for controlling said fifth means to energize said transducing means when said magnetic reproduction head is aligned with and scans a selected track of a card, and seventh means including a video monitor connected to receive the signals generated by said magnetic transducing means and to utilize same to generate images of the information defined by said full-frame video picture signals recorded on a card scanned by said magnetic transducing means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein said first means is operable to arcuately deform a magnetic record card into a helical shape.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
65 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 2 wherein said fourth means is operable to cause a magnetic record card received by said first means to travel a helical path past said magnetic reproduction head and said third means is operable to rotate said magnetic reproduction head to cause it to engage and scan transversely across said card parallel to said tracks of said card.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
59 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein said first means is operable for deforming a card received thereby into a cylindrical configuration of constant diameter defined by a central axis and said fourth means is operable for causing relative movement between said transducing means and said deformed record card in a direction parallel to said central axis.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
32 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 4 wherein said fourth means includes means for effecting relative rotational movement between said magnetic transducing means and a card received by said first means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
35 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 5 wherein said fourth means includes means for rotating said magnetic transducing means to cause it to engage and scan the recording tracks of the arcuately deformed card.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
46 words
Magnetic transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein said sixth means includes means for detecting the locations of said parallel record tracks of said card as said relative movement is effected between said card and said magnetic reproduction head in said first and second directions.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
211 words
Card transducing apparatus comprising in combination: first means for receiving and guiding a record card containing video picture signals recorded on a plurality of parallel tracks which tracks extend oblique to the longitudinal axis of a card received by said first means, said first means being operable to deform the received card to cause its recording surface to become arcuately shaped, second means for driving a record card along said first means, third means for stopping the movement of the card driven along and guided by said first means when the card is predeterminately disposed thereon, fourth means including a magnetic reproduction transducer disposed for scanning a card guided by said first means for reproducing recorded video picture signals from a selected one of said oblique tracks of a card which is predeterminately positioned with respect to said first means and means for rotating said magnetic reproduction transducer in a manner to cause it to repeatedly scan the track of a card which is stopped and predeterminately disposed on said first means, and fifth means including a video monitor having a viewing screen for receiving the signals reproduced by said fourth means and for displaying the information defined by the track scanned as a still image on said monitor viewing screen.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
211 words
Card transducing apparatus comprising in combination: first means for receiving and guiding a record card containing video picture signals recorded on a plurality of parallel tracks which tracks extend oblique to the longitudinal axis of a card received by said first means, said first means being operable to deform the received card to cause its recording surface to become arcuately shaped, second means for driving a record card along said first means, third means for stopping the movement of the card driven along and guided by said first means when the card is predeterminately disposed thereon, fourth means including a magnetic reproduction transducer disposed for scanning a card guided by said first means for reproducing recorded video picture signals from a selected one of said oblique tracks of a card which is predeterminately positioned with respect to said first means and means for rotating said magnetic reproduction transducer in a manner to cause it to repeatedly scan the track of a card which is stopped and predeterminately disposed on said first means, and fifth means including a video monitor having a viewing screen for receiving the signals reproduced by said fourth means and for displaying the information defined by the track scanned as a still image on said monitor viewing screen.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
53 words
Card transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 8 wherein said first means is configured and operable to arcuately deform a card presented thereto to present the parallel tracks of the card along circular pathway configurations and means for rotating said transducing means to cause it to circularly scan the tracks of a card.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
43 words
Card transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 8 wherein said first means includes means for deforming a card into a helical shape wherein at least a portion of each track of the helically shaped portion of a card extends in a circular path.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
42 words
Card transducing apparatus in accordance with claim 8 wherein said fifth means includes a television monitor including a cathode ray tube having a viewing screen for presenting picture information defined by the reproduction of said video recordings by said magnetic reproduction transducer.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
127 words
Magnetic card reproduction apparatus comprising in combination: first means for receiving a magnetic card containing a plurality of full-frame video picture signals magnetically recorded on a plurality of parallel record tracks of said card, second means for magnetically scanning said full-frame video picture signal recordings and generating full-frame electrical video picture signals thereof, third means for effecting relative movement between said first and second means in first and second directions to cause said second means to consecutively scan the parallel tracks of a card received by said first means and to generate electrical video picture signals from the recordings provided on the card, and fourth means including a video monitor adapted for receiving full-frame video picture signals and generating images thereof which may be viewed and monitored.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
127 words
Magnetic card reproduction apparatus comprising in combination: first means for receiving a magnetic card containing a plurality of full-frame video picture signals magnetically recorded on a plurality of parallel record tracks of said card, second means for magnetically scanning said full-frame video picture signal recordings and generating full-frame electrical video picture signals thereof, third means for effecting relative movement between said first and second means in first and second directions to cause said second means to consecutively scan the parallel tracks of a card received by said first means and to generate electrical video picture signals from the recordings provided on the card, and fourth means including a video monitor adapted for receiving full-frame video picture signals and generating images thereof which may be viewed and monitored.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
64 words
A magnetic card reproduction apparatus in accordance with claim 12 wherein said record card is an oblong card with said parallel record tracks extending transverse to the longitudinal axis thereof, and said third means includes means for effecting relative longitudinal movement between said card and said second means to permit the scanning of said plural record tracks of said card by said second means.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
93 words
A magnetic card reproduction apparatus in accordance with claim 13 wherein said cards contain said plural full-frame video picture signals recorded transverse to the longitudinal axis of said cards and wherein said first means includes means for deforming a record card to cause it to become cylindrically shaped and said second means includes means for effecting relative rotational movement between said deformed card and said scanning means as said card and said second means are caused to effect relative longitudinal movement whereby said scanning means consecutively scans said transverse tracks of said card.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
39 words
Magnetic card reproduction apparatus in accordance with claim 14 wherein said third means includes means for longitudinally moving said deformed record card past said scanning means while relative rotational movement is effected between said card and said scanning means.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
44 words
Magnetic card reproduction apparatus in accordance with claim 14 including means for rotating said deformed record card about the axis defined by the cylindrical shape in which said card is deformed so as to effect relative movement between said card and said scanning means.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
66 words
Magnetic card reproduction apparatus in accordance with claim 12 including means for gating selected full-frame video picture signals generated when said scanning means scans a selected track of said record card to pass same to said fourth means and means for causing said fourth means to generate a still image of the information represented by said selected full-frame video picture signal presented to said fourth means.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
256 words
Apparatus for reproducing information recorded on record cards and visually displaying the information reproduced comprising: first means for receiving a record card which card contains video picture signals recorded on a plurality of parallel record tracks of said card, which tracks extend transverse to the longitudinal axis of the card, said first means being operable for arcuately deforming said record card, second means including video transducing means for reproducing video picture signals from a card supported by said first means, third means for effecting relative movement between said first means and a card supported and arcuately deformed by said first means and said second means in a first direction to cause said video transducing means to consecutively scan consecutive parallel tracks of said card, fourth means for causing relative movement between said video transducing means and a supported card in a second direction to permit said video transducing means to scan a plurality of the card record tracks, fifth means for energizing said transducing means, sixth means including a video monitor for receiving video picture signals generated by said video transducing means in scanning the recordings of a card and visually displaying the picture information represented by said recordings, and seventh means for guiding and driving a card to said first means to permit said card to be received and arcuately deformed by said first means, eighth means for guiding and driving a card away from said first means upon completion of a scanning operation to permit another card to be received by said first means.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
256 words
Apparatus for reproducing information recorded on record cards and visually displaying the information reproduced comprising: first means for receiving a record card which card contains video picture signals recorded on a plurality of parallel record tracks of said card, which tracks extend transverse to the longitudinal axis of the card, said first means being operable for arcuately deforming said record card, second means including video transducing means for reproducing video picture signals from a card supported by said first means, third means for effecting relative movement between said first means and a card supported and arcuately deformed by said first means and said second means in a first direction to cause said video transducing means to consecutively scan consecutive parallel tracks of said card, fourth means for causing relative movement between said video transducing means and a supported card in a second direction to permit said video transducing means to scan a plurality of the card record tracks, fifth means for energizing said transducing means, sixth means including a video monitor for receiving video picture signals generated by said video transducing means in scanning the recordings of a card and visually displaying the picture information represented by said recordings, and seventh means for guiding and driving a card to said first means to permit said card to be received and arcuately deformed by said first means, eighth means for guiding and driving a card away from said first means upon completion of a scanning operation to permit another card to be received by said first means.
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| 7.5 Years (Year 8) | 1985-04-10 | 1985-10-10 | 1986-04-11 | $3760.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |
| 11.5 Years (Year 12) | 1989-04-10 | 1989-10-10 | 1990-04-11 | $7700.00 | Window Closed / Lapsed |