Abstract:
The apparatus incorporates a printing composer interconnected with a magnetic card recording and reproducing unit, and having telecomunication facilities. Provision is made for composing operations, including justification of printed information according to predetermined line lengths, centering, flush left, and flush right. The composing capabilities are in addition to basic recording and playback functions of the apparatus. Several modes of operation are possible. In a Record mode, characters and functional information entered by a keyboard produce data signals that are supplied to the magnetic card unit for recording in individual tracks on a magnetic card record media, each track being associated with a printed line on a document that is concurrently printed. During a Playback mode, data signals previously recorded in the individual tracks on the magnetic record card are sensed and applied to the printer to produce a printed document automatically. Neither the Record nor the Playback modes contemplate justification procedures. In a Justify Record mode, provision is made for recording characters and recognizing spaces as they occur during the printing of a document, compiling justification information to produce lines of predetermined length, and recording the justification data in association with the individual lines. In a Justify Playback mode, the previously recorded justification data is recognized and used during subsequent sensing of data signals to effect proper interword spacing in order to produce justified lines of printed copy.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a dictating system capable of the random recording and arrangement of audio segments, means for digitally recording the positions of such segments after the completion of such arrangement either upon an additional medium or upon the recording medium in a separate track or tracks reserved for such purposes or in locations corresponding to each audio segment giving the location of the next audio segment as defined by the arrangement, or for transmitting such information over a wire or wireless channel; and also concerns a transcription device for use with the above system, either capable of reading such digital information into memory before the beginning of the transcription process or capable of reading information giving the location of the next audio segment as defined by the arrangement during the transcription process, and having means for accessing audio segments on the medium recorded by the above system in the order of the arrangement.