Computerized information processing system equipped with copying apparatus

• US 4,494,862 A
• Filed: 09/28/1981
• Issued: 01/22/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Tanaka, Atsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Braun, Fred L.
• Application Number:
  US06/306,408
• Time in Patent Office: 1,212 Days
• Field of Search: 355/3 R, 355/14 R, 355/14 C, 355/40, 355/41
• US Class Current: 399/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/04018 Image composition, e.g. adding or superposing informations on the original image composition of facsimile picture signals H04N1/387
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/002 Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16 other optical apparatus G02B27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1276 adding two or more images, e.g. texturing, shading, form overlay
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/128 generating or processing printable items, e.g. characters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3872 Repositioning or masking

Abstract

A computerized information-processing system including a copying machine operatively associated with a computer having a data storage apparatus having a plurality of memory locations wherein the copying apparatus is capable of reading a coded pattern on an original placed on the copying machine and for generating an instruction input to the computer for reading data from selected memory locations, and apparatus, responsive to data received from the computer from the memory locations, for imprinting, at preselected locations on copying paper passing through the copying machine, information represented by such data to correspond to locations on the original sheet as it is being copied on the copying paper. In addition the copying machine has a sensor for reading markings placed on the copy containing the copy of the original and the imprinted data for producing instructions to the computer to modify selected data in selected memory locations.

Claims

1. A computerized information processing system including a copying apparatus and a computer means provided with a memory means for storing image signals, said copying apparatus being capable of composing an image, on a recording paper, of an original sheet placed on said copying apparatus, including also an image based on the image signals from said computer and at least comprising:

a photoreceptor drum;

a charging means for electrically charging a surface of said photoreceptor drum;

a scanning and projecting means for scanning the original sheet and projecting an optical image of the original sheet onto the surface of said photoreceptor drum;

a transport means for transporting a recording paper;

a transfer means for transferring to the recording paper, an image formed on said photoreceptor drum;

an image forming means for forming a visible image on the recording paper in response to the image signals supplied from said computer;

a mark read means for reading optical marks provided on the original sheet and converting the optical marks into electrical signals;

a signal output means for supplying to said computer, the electrical signals as instruction signals thereto;

said computer means being for at least supplying the image signals to said image forming means of said copying apparatus and executing, in response to the instruction signals supplied from said copying apparatus, a predetermined processing of the image signals stored in said memory means; and

said copying apparatus being operatively associated with said computer means in such a manner that, when said copying apparatus forms a composite image on the recording paper by composing a scanned and projected image of the original sheet provided with the optical marks corresponding to predetermined processing instructions to said computer and an image based on a primary image signal supplied from said computer, it thereafter reads, by the use of a read means of said copying apparatus, optical marks on the recording paper having the composite image formed thereon and then, supplies the instruction signals to said computer means, said computer means producing a secondary set of image signals after executing, in response to the instruction signals, the predetermined processing of the primary image signals and making an output of the secondary image signals at the time of a subsequent copying operation.

2. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said read means includes a first read means for reading the optical marks provided on the original sheet and a second read means for reading the marks provided on the composite image.

3. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said second read means is so provided as to be adjusted in position and said copying apparatus further includes means for detecting a position of said second read means.

4. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least said scanning and projecting means and an exposure lamp for irradiating the original are operated during the read operation of the marks and a reflecting mirror is so provided in a light path for projection as to direct projected light towards a photo detector for reading the marks.

5. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the marks provided on the composite image are classified by colors corresponding to the processing instructions and the colors are discriminated during the read of the marks so as to supply to the computer the processing instructions in accordance with information on the discriminated colors.

6. A computerized information processing system including a copying apparatus and a computer means provided with a memory means for storing data representing character signals and their arrangement, said copying apparatus being capable of composing an image, on a recording paper, of an original sheet and an image based on image signals based upon the data from said computer and at least comprising:

a photoreceptor drum;

a charging means for electrically charging a surface of said photoreceptor drum;

a scanning and projecting means for scanning the original sheet and projecting an optical image of the original sheet onto the surface of said photoreceptor drum;

a transport means for transporting a recording paper;

a transfer means for transferring to the recording paper, an image formed on said photoreceptor drum;

an image forming means for forming a visible image on the recording paper in response to the image signals supplied from said computer means;

a mark read means for reading optical marks provided on the original sheet and converting the optical marks into electrical signals;

a signal output means for supplying to said computer means, the electrical signals as instruction signals thereto;

said computer means being at least for supplying the data representing character signals and their arrangement to said image forming means of said copying apparatus and executing, in response to the instruction signals supplied from said copying apparatus, a predetermined processing of the data representing character signals and their arrangement stored in said memory means; and

said copying apparatus being operatively associated with said computer means in such a manner that, when said copying apparatus forms a composite image on the recording paper by composing a scanned and projected image of the original sheet provided with the optical marks corresponding to predetermined processing instructions to said computer and an image based on a primary image signal supplied from said computer, it thereafter reads, by the use of a read means of said copying apparatus, optical marks on the recording paper having the composite image formed thereon and then, supplies the instruction signals to said computer means, said computer means proucing secondary image signals after executing, in response to the instruction signals, the predetermined processing of the primary image signal and making an output of the secondary image signals at the time of a subsequent copying operation.

7. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 6, wherein said read means includes a first read means for reading the optical marks provided on the original sheet and a second read means for reading the marks provided on the composite image.

8. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 7, wherein said second read means is so provided as to be adjusted in position and said copying apparatus further includes means for detecting a position of said second read means.

9. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 6, wherein at least said scanning and projecting means and an exposure lamp for irradiating the original are operated during the read operation of the marks and a reflecting mirror is so provided in a light path for projection as to direct projected light towards a photo detector for reading the marks.

10. A computerized information processing system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the marks provided on the composite image are classified by colors corresponding to the processing instructions and the colors are discriminated during the read of the marks so as to supply to the computer the processing instructions in accordance with information on the discriminated colors.