Lionel Trains, Inc.

Monitel Products Corp.

Dynamic Broadcasting Network, Inc.

Roger Booth

James C Wickstead

Thomas D Heidt

Gerald P Selden

Leonard Tarr

Stephen Trapp

Burt Kravette

Malcolm E Kaufman

Peter D Ellis

A system for monitoring a variable output paper processing device is provided. The monitoring system includes a counter which counts the number of papers processed and provides a count signal for each counted paper. A controller receives the count signals and totals the counts. The controller transmits the total count to a central station through a modem after either a predetermined time or a predetermined count. Internal diagnostic signals in the printing device are intercepted as they are transmitted to an internal display device of the printing device and transmitted to the central computer through the modem.

Photocopy monitoring system

A sequence of data groups are modulated at a central location and coupled to a telephone line in response to a call-up signal. The sequence is transmitted through the telephone lines to a remote computer. The computer receives the signals, demodulates them, and couples them to a moemory. The data is stored at a particular address, and in coupling the data to the memory, the computer checks a flag at that address to determine whether the data has already been written over. When the flags indicate that the data received corresponds to data already written over, it signals the end of a transmission. The data stored in the memory can be accessed by an operator using input controls.

Data transmission and storage

The invention comprises a toy vehicle such as a train, for moving about a track and which includes an optical sensing apparatus. The vehicle includes a charge coupled device to sense radiant energy external of the vehicle. The vehicle includes sensing circuitry to convert the image into a video signal. The video signal is FM modulated and supplied to the track by a transmitter on the vehicle for transmission to a receiver. The receiver receives the FM signal and demodulates same to produce a video signal adapted to be received by a monitor for viewing by the user of the toy vehicle as the vehicle moves along the track.

Toy vehicle assembly with video display capability

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Roger Booth