Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Akira Okamura

Shizuo Ando

A telephone automatic answering device including provision for remotely controlling said device to cause playback of messages and selective rewinding of a message recording tape. The device includes an answer tape on which a prerecorded answer may be placed, and a message tape which receives and reproduces messages left by callers. The subscriber may initiate playback of the message tape by causing a remote signal to be applied over the telephone line. The answering device picks up the remote signal and rewinds the message tape a predetermined amount. The subscriber then hears the recorded messages and knows immediately if it is necessary to rewind the tape an additional amount. If the subscriber wants to rewind the tape an additional amount, he causes the remote signal to be sent again over the telephone line. The message tape then rewinds for the duration of the latter remote signal. Playback occurs immediately following rewinding and stops when the recorded remote signal arrives at the playback head of the message tape.

Remote controllable telephone answering device having a dual playback

A remote-controlled automatic telephone answering apparatus of the type wherein the owner of the apparatus applies a control signal from a remote telephone substation in order to have recorded messages played back to him over the telephone line. If the owner should hang up his receiver during the playback of the messages, a hang-up detector and associated logic circuit detect the resulting disconnection and produce a signal for immediately releasing the line to return it to a non-busy state.

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Akira Okamura