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CODE SCANNING SYSTEM

  • US 3,735,350 A
  • Filed: 07/06/1971
  • Issued: 05/22/1973
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1966
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Apparatus for generating data as electrical signals representative of characters and the like comprising:

  • a support operative to be guided by hand, reading means including a transducer secured to said support, an input to said transducer located for scanning recoRded information adjacent said support, said transducer being operative for transducing the information scanned to electrical signals, signal output means connected to said transducer, a record member containing parallel lines of visually readable information in the form of separate units of information with each information unit defined by one or more characters or symbols, a plurality of code recordings representing the information of said information units, said code recordings being provided on a plurality of code tracks each containing codes representative of a plurality of said information units provided on a line adjacent the respective code track, means for visually locating the position of each code recording and its associated unit of visually readable information to permit the selective positioning of said support with respect to said record member to permit said transducer to scan selected code recordings for generating selected information as electrical signals, and a plurality of control signal recordings located along each code track before and after each code recording representative of each of said separate units of information and reproducble by said transducer as it scans the code track, means for receiving and utilizing the selected information signals generated by said transducer, and means responsive to the signals generated when said transducer scans said control signal recordings for communicating the information generated thereby to said receiving means.

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