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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358257 ; 358260 ; 358288 ;
Abstract
A group III facsimile which substantially reduces the transmission time is disclosed wherein marks are applied to a document to be transmitted in order to identify the portions of the document depending on whether or not to be transmitted, after the document is scanned the presence or absence of the marks in the scanned lines, that is, whether or not the scanned output signals are to be transmitted will be determined by the electrical signals scanned, and in place of scanned lines unnecessary to transmit, special code signals are sent each of which consists of less bits, for example, a code indicating that one line is wholly white, a fill code, and a code indicating the end of a line.