Alden Electronics, Inc.

Alden Research Foundation

Scott Nowell

Electronic apparatus for receiving amplitude or frequency modulated facsimile signals detects the instantaneous value ( i.e., the amplitude or frequency) of the modulation by a circuit including means detecting the modulation value in each cycle of the signal and producing a gating signal corresponding in duration to the detected modulation value, a generator of clock pulses higher in frequency than the signal, and a modulator responsive to the clock pulse and gating signal to pass a number of clock pulses commensurate with the modulation value to a counter which generates a marking signal commensurate in amplitude to the modulation value for application to a facsimile recorder.

Facsimile signal modulation detector

An electronic system for processing graphic teletype coded signals or graphic facsimile signals in different modes of frequency modulation comprises two filter channels passing different frequency modulated or keyed bands, two filter channels respectively passing signals from the two bands to a pulse shaper which produces a pulsed signal corresponding to the outputs of the filter channels, and channels respectively coupling the output of one filter channel and of the shaper to a facsimile recorder.

Tunable filter circuit for facsimile recorders

A method of recording the varying gray shades of a facsimile signal line by line with a thermal print head having a linear arrary of heating elements sorts out the individual pixels of a facsimile signal line according to their gray shade in a scale of 1 to 16, and to their line position, into a number of separate series of pixels, each series representing a different gray shade. The 16 different series are stored and read out of a memory in their separate series, and as the separate series are applied to a thermal print head the marking energy is varied 16 times from series to series corresponding to the gray scale of the original signal. Thus 16 successive series of pixels are marked on the same line of a thermosensitive paper to reproduce all the gray shades.

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Scott Nowell