System for broadcasting facsimile signals

• US 4,251,836 A
• Filed: 06/01/1978
• Issued: 02/17/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Etablissement Public de Diffusion DIT "Telediffusion de France"
• Original Assignee: Etablissement Public de Diffusion DIT "Telediffusion de France"
• Inventors: Moreau, Jean
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coles, Edward L.
• Application Number:
  US05/911,349
• Time in Patent Office: 992 Days
• Field of Search: 358/257, 358/264, 358/256, 358/148, 358/147, 358/267
• US Class Current: 358/409
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32 Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device, e.g. between a still-image camera and its memory or between a still-image camera and a printer device H04N1/38, H04N1/387 take precedence

Abstract

A system for broadcasting data makes it possible to broadcast facsimile d toward a plurality of telecopying apparatuses, using an asynchronous broadcasting network.

To each telecopying device there is joined a reception juncture device which develops a going time base or clocking to synchronize the telecopying device. At the emitting station, an emission juncture device simulates the operation of a reception juncture device to govern the transmission of the signal by the network.

Claims

1. A system for the asynchronous broadcasting of facsimile data toward a plurality of telecopying reproduction means, the operational movement of a scanning head over a reproduced copy in said telecopying reproduction means being continuously synchronous, means in said telecopying reproduction means for developing a receiving time base responsive to the operation of said telecopier reproduction means, means for phase-locking system circuits in order to set into phase the coordination of said receiving time base developed responsive to operation of said telecopier reproduction means and a transmitting time base associated with said broadcast data, said system comprising a facsimile data receiver which contains a line point counter means governed by a clock signal coordinated with said receiving time base, said line point counter means being set into operation by a predetermined signal received with the facsimile data, said predetermined signal delivering the transmitting time base.

2. A broadcasting system according to claim 1 characterized in that the telecopying reproduction means have a helical sweep over a cylinder rotating at constant speed, and in that the receiving time base is developed responsive to rotation of the cylinder.

3. A broadcasting system according to any one of the claims 1 or 2, and reception juncture means having a buffer memory means from which data is retrieved at a binary clock rate of said system, said binary rate being governed by the receiving time base.

4. A broadcasting system according to claim 1 or 2, and highly stable oscillator means, transmission juncture means responsive to information transmission for developing a fictitious transmitting time base from the output of said highly stable oscillator means, which is used in a pseudo receiver juncture means, to process data sent from a program source as said data are in the reception juncture means, with some advance in time framing.

5. A broadcasting system according to claim 4, characterized in that said transmission juncture means includes a buffer memory means which is filled with the data coming from the source, and the data of which are transmitted through the broadcasting system in sets so that the buffer memory of the reception juncture means does not become either completely empty or overflowing.

6. A system for asynchronously broadcasting facsimile data toward a plurality of telecopying reproduction means, the facsimile data being relative to a page and being composed of a message address followed by image point data, said data being transmitted in an asynchronous manner, said telecopying reproduction means continuously operating in a synchronous manner, means in said telecopying reproduction means for phase-locking system circuits in order to set into phase the coordination of said receiving time base developed responsive to operation of said telecopier reproduction means and a transmitting time base associated with said broadcast data, said system comprising a facsimile data receiver which contains a line point counter means governed by a clock signal coordinated with said receiving time base, said line point counter means being set into operation by a predetermined signal received with the facsimile data, said predetermined signal delivering the transmitting time base, decoder means, the receiver comprising a switching circuit means which sends the data of the address into said decoder means and the image data into the buffer memory, a first reception detector means for detecting the beginning of the address and starting an operation of a motor and a rotating cylinder of said telecopier reproduction means, a second reception detector means for detecting the end of the address, divider means, the data of the address indicating the number of points per line and the number of lines per millimeter being decoded in the decoding means to be applied to the governing inputs of said divider means to select its division ratio, the signal input of said divider means receiving said receiving time base and the outputs of said divider means for delivering the frequency signal of the points which is applied to a counter means, the output of which delivers the transmitting time base to said phase-locking means, when said counter has been started responsive to the output signal of the second detector means.

7. A broadcasting system according to claim 6 characterized in that the telecopying reproduction means have a helical sweep over a cylinder rotating at constant speed, and in that the receiving time base is developed responsive to rotation of the cylinder.