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US 4,068,941 AGranted
Microfiche records
OwnerHarry Arthur Hele Spence-Bateinventor
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Apparatus for handling information which includes the facility of receiving the information either on a microform film, a conventional document platen or from a computer input; the information is then recorded by a camera onto a microform film, preferably a microfiche, and the recorded microform is then passed to an electronic scanner and displayed via a store on a first display, meanwhile the recorded film is preferably stored in a photographic store; the information on the first display, which is preferably in a slave unit whereas the camera and scanner are preferably in a terminal unit, is then checked by an operator and a reply is generated at a keyboard preferably in the slave unit, which reply is displayed on a second display and is fed back to the camera for recording on microform film and transmitted either in the form of a computer output or as a microform film which is preferably a microfiche; the transmitted microform film may be the same microform film received in the first place updated with the reply generated by the keyboard; and authentication device may be provided to authenticate the reply in the manner of a signature.
Apparatus for handling information comprising a microform camera including a document copying platen, a microform film holder, and a cathode ray tube, means for recording an image from either the copying platen, film holder or tube onto a further microform film held on a moveable carriage in the camera, means for moving the further film to an image recording position so that images can be recorded in different frames on the film, and electronic scanner for scanning each recorded image, a first store arranged to store the electronic scanned image, a first display for displaying the image stored in the first store, a keyboard generating characters, a second store storing the generated characters and a second display for displaying the generated characters, the second store feeding said cathode ray tube.
A method of handling information comprising receiving the information on a document copying platen, a microform film holder or a cathode ray tube, recording the received information on a microform film, scanning electronically the recorded microform film and displaying the scanned information on a first display, generating a reply on a keyboard, displaying the reply on a second display, feeding the reply to the cathode ray tube, recording the reply displayed on the cathode ray tube on a microform and transmitting the reply.
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