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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1989
Jerry R Iggulden, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Donald A Streck, Ojai, CA (US);
Light Ideas Incorporated, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Abstract
Facsimile record and playback apparatus for receiving and recording facsimile transmissions on a removable recording medium for later display and viewing. There is a cassette device and a record/playback deck for removably receiving the cassette device, for receiving data signals, for writing the data signals on the recording medium, for reading the data signals, and for providing the data signals at an output. A modem is connected for receiving facsimile transmissions. First logic is connected to the output of the modem for establishing a handshaking interface with a facsimile machine transmitting a facsimile, for receiving the facsimile transmission, for stripping off unnecessary transmission related information from document data information, for inserting control characters required for proper transcription at a later time, and for transmitting the control characters and document data information as data signals to the record/playback deck. There is a viewing device for presenting facsimile documents in a viewable form and second logic connected to the output of the record/playback device for receiving the data signals, for recognizing and separating the document data information and the control characters, and for formatting and outputting the document data information in combination with control information to the viewing device for viewing and reading thereof. The viewing device can be, inter alia, a computer, a printer, a display, or a facsimile machine.