Photocomposing machine and method

    公开(公告)号:US4230399A

    公开(公告)日:1980-10-28

    申请号:US899001

    申请日:1978-04-21

    申请人: Louis M. Moyroud

    发明人: Louis M. Moyroud

    CPC分类号: B41B27/28 B41B17/10

    摘要: The machine preferably has a character matrix comprising a rotating drum with character-bearing film strips wrapped around it. The machine has a light source comprising a plurality of flash lamps and fiber-optic light pipes. The light-pipes are arranged in a linear array aligned parallel to the direction of travel of the film strips on the drum. Photographic film is formed into a semi-cylindrical arc and remains stationary during composition of up to a full newspaper page of text before the film is moved to another exposure position. Both character spacing and line spacing are performed by a combination of selective timing of the operation of the flash lamps, a lens and reflector traveling parallel to the film in a beam of collimated light, and a swinging mirror mounted on the axis of the semi-cylinder formed by the film. Both timing slits and base-line reference marks are located on the film strips near each character. The base-line reference marks are detected and used to make automatic corrections of the character image locations to ensure excellent base-alignment of the characters on the film. Other corrections of the character image locations are stored in a memory and are made automatically during composition. Several steps are taken to ensure accurate character spacing. A separate, independent timing circuit is used to time the flashing of each character. Also, the timing is determined by reference only to the timing slit immediately next to the character to be flashed. Furthermore, timing delay is controlled by a clock pulse source whose frequency is controlled by the drum rotation so as to compensate for instantaneous variations in drum speed and/or position. Each film strip bears coded indicia indicating the illumination level required for each different type face on the strip. Automatic adjustments are made to compensate for the divergence of the collimated light towards the end of very long lines of type composition. Special means are provided to compensate for the extension of italics and slanted characters to one side or the other of the normal character area. Means also are provided for the insertion of "pi" characters and forming rules.

    Electro optical symbol emitting and recognition device
    2.
    发明授权
    Electro optical symbol emitting and recognition device 失效
    电光符号发射和识别装置

    公开(公告)号:US3987459A

    公开(公告)日:1976-10-19

    申请号:US603744

    申请日:1975-08-11

    摘要: A solid state electro optical symbol emitting and symbol recognition device employing a source of collimated and parallel light for projecting an image, a symbol matrix of photographic film containing the symbols such as alphanumeric font that is to be projected, displayed or recognized by comparing it to a symbol of established equivalence, a liquid crystal symbol gate under the control of a central processor, a symbol display unit capable of receiving a symbol and projecting it to a multiplicity of positions on its output side and to a recognition unit, a second liquid crystal symbol gate under the control of a central processor and an output medium such as a xerographic printer, a light sensitive printing plate or a display screen. In addition the device may contain a recognition unit capable of comparing a symbol emitted by the device as previously described with a symbol emitted from its symbol matrix to establish their congruency and consequently the identity of the symbol read.

    摘要翻译: 一种固态电光符号发射和符号识别装置,其采用用于投影图像的准直和平行光源,包含诸如要投影,显示或识别的字母数字字符的符号的照相胶片的符号矩阵,通过将其与 已建立的等效符号,在中央处理器的控制下的液晶符号门,能够接收符号并将其投影到其输出侧的多个位置的符号显示单元和识别单元,第二液晶 在中央处理器和诸如静电印刷机,光敏印刷板或显示屏之类的输出介质的控制下的符号门。 此外,设备可以包含识别单元,该识别单元能够如先前所描述的与从符号矩阵发射的符号相比较的装置发射的符号来确定它们的一致性,并因此来识别符号的身份。

    Photocomposing apparatus
    3.
    发明授权
    Photocomposing apparatus 失效
    照相装置

    公开(公告)号:US3733979A

    公开(公告)日:1973-05-22

    申请号:US3733979D

    申请日:1971-07-08

    申请人: MONOTYPE CORP LTD

    发明人: ENGLAND C

    IPC分类号: B41B17/04 B41B21/16 B41B17/12

    CPC分类号: B41B17/04 B41B21/16

    摘要: Photo-composing apparatus comprising a matrix of master characters, an optical system for forming a light beam bearing images of all the characters in the matrix, a lens for collimating the light beam, a second optical system for directing an image of a selected master character on to a photo-sensitive member, and at least one rotatable scanning mirror disposed in the path of the collimated beam to direct a selectable portion of the collimated beam into the second optical system. The second optical system includes a lens for forming a focused image of the characters in the matrix, in the plane of a mask which has an aperture sufficient to encompass the image of only one character.

    Width card
    6.
    发明授权
    Width card 失效
    宽度卡

    公开(公告)号:US4642624A

    公开(公告)日:1987-02-10

    申请号:US569784

    申请日:1984-01-10

    IPC分类号: B41B17/04 G09G1/16

    CPC分类号: B41B17/04

    摘要: A width card associated with a film strip both of which are adapted to be used in a phototypesetting machine, the film strip containing a plurality of fonts, each of which contains a plurality of characters. The width card includes a memory for storing a plurality of sets of character width information for each of the fonts contained on the associated film strip, means for selecting one of the sets of character width information for all of the fonts contained on the associated film strip and means for permitting the phototypesetting machine to obtain from the memory the width information for a character in a particular font by accessing the selected set of character width information for the particular font. In response to access of the memory by the phototypesetting machine, a visual indication of the particular font accessed and the set of character width information selected is provided.

    摘要翻译: 一种与胶片条相关联的宽度卡,两者都适于在照相排版机中使用,该胶片条包含多个字体,每个字体包含多个字符。 宽度卡包括用于存储用于包含在相关联的胶片条上的每个字体的多组字符宽度信息的存储器,用于为包含在相关联的胶卷上的所有字体选择一组字符宽度信息的装置 以及用于允许照片排版机通过访问用于特定字体的所选择的一组字符宽度信息从存储器获得特定字体中的字符的宽度信息的装置。 响应于通过照片排版机访问存储器,提供所访问的特定字体的视觉指示和所选择的字符宽度信息集合。

    Keyboard controlled phototypesetting machine
    7.
    发明授权
    Keyboard controlled phototypesetting machine 失效
    键盘控制照相机

    公开(公告)号:US4148572A

    公开(公告)日:1979-04-10

    申请号:US792564

    申请日:1977-05-02

    申请人: Hans Linde

    发明人: Hans Linde

    CPC分类号: B41B21/32 B41B17/10 B41B17/18

    摘要: The invention concerns a keyboard controlled phototypesetting machine or the typesetting of text, preferably of the same letter type and letter size, and which consists of a light source with projection optic, a symbol carrier and a movable film transport carrier which can be loaded with a cassette with light-sensitive material, as well as a typesetting computer for the conrol of the typesetting.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及键盘控制的照片排版机或文本的排版,优选地具有相同的字母类型和字母尺寸,并且由具有投影光学元件的光源,符号载体和可移动的胶片传送载体组成,该载体可以装载有 带有感光材料的盒子,以及用于排版排版的排版计算机。