Automatic editing system and method

Claim 2

Editing system for editing a message comprising a message change receiver for receiving desired editing changes to be made to said message and for providing message change output signals suitable for logical processing; and a message element handler for changing the message elements in said message in accordance with said message change output signals; the message change output signals of said message change receiver being coupled to said message element handler.

Claim 3

System for editing a message comprising: a manual edit indicating means for specifying an editing change to be made to said message, said indicating means having an editing indicia output; an inputting means for converting said message and the output of said manual edit indicating means into signals suitable for logical processing; and a message revising means coupled to said inputting means for editing said message by changing the message elements in said message in accordance with the editing change specified by said manual edit indicating means, said message revising means generating a resulting edited message.

Claim 4

System for editing a message comprising: a manual edit indicating means for specifying an editing change to be made to said message, said indicating means having an editing indicia output; an inputting means for converting said message and the output of said manual edit indicating means into signals suitable for logical processing; and a message revising means coupled to said inputting means for editing said message by changing the message elements in said message in accordance with the editing change specified by said manual edit indicating means, said message revising means generating a resulting edited message.

Claim 5

System for editing a message according to claim 2 in which said inputting means includes a reader for machine reading said message from a machine readable record and for automatically interpreting the output of said manual edit indicating means, said reader generating an output signal suitable for logical processing.

Claim 6

System for editing a message according to claim 3 in which said reader includes a reading means for reading a record which contains primary intelligence which is both man and machine readable.

Claim 7

System for editing a message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said message according to claim 4 in which said message revising means includes an intelligence arraying means having an automatic line ending means for providing formatting signals to permit page formatting, said formatting signals being associated with said resulting edited message and in which said message revising means includes an electrically actuated man-machine readable record generator for generating a man-machine readable record containing said resulting edited message thereon in page format.

Claim 8

System for editing a message according to claim 4 which also includes insert handling means coupled to said message revising means for providing the message elements of inserts at the required time to include said elements in the edited message being synthesized.

Claim 9

System for editing a message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said message according to claim 4 in which said manual edit indicating means includes an off-line, manual, edit marking means for manually scribing an edit mark onto a previously recorded man and machine readable record containing said message which is to be edited, said edit mark being associated with an arbitrary message element space on said record; and in which said reader includes means for automatically converting said edit mark into a signal suitable for logical processing.

Claim 10

System for editing a message according to claim 4 in which said reader includes signal species separator means for separating the information of said edit indicia from the information of said message.

Claim 11

System for editing a message according to claim 4 and which also includes a source generator of said record including an ink ejector imprinting system comprising an ink ejector head and including an array of ink ejectors adapted to be juxtaposed contiguously to the writing medium for imprinting thereon a pattern of information bits to represent a character of said intelligence and which permit the unique identification of the said character by said reader.

Claim 12

System for editing a message according to claim 4 in which said record has been printed by a font characterized by faces which each produce a character impression which is man readable, a plurality of information bit positions associated with each of said faces, each said bit position comprises means for printing an area mark upon the surface to be printed whereby the pattern of said information bits in said positions is unique for each character produced by said type face, said area mark is at least machine visible, as by fluorescent ink; and in which said reading means comprises a reading head including a plurality of fiber optic bundles disposed in a geometrical array such that a plurality of said bundles may be juxtaposed over the impression of said pattern of information bit positions, and means for positioning said record relative to said reading head so that said reading head is sequentially placed in register with successive individual ones of the machine readable portions of said character impressions.

Claim 13

System for editing a message according to claim 6 in which said insert handling means includes a message element store for storing the message elements of at least one insert until required for the edited message being synthesized, said message elements of said insert being retrieved from said message element store during the synthesis of said edited message upon the occurrence at a message element location of an editing mark that indicates the insertion is to start at said location in said message to be edited.

Claim 14

System for editing a message according to claim 7 in which said message revising means includes an intelligence arraying means having an automatic line ending means for providing formatting signals to permit page formatting, said formatting signals being associated with said resulting edited message, and in which said message revising means includes an electrically actuated man-machine readable record generator for generating a man-machine readable record containing said resulting edited message thereon in page format.

Claim 15

System for editing a message according to claim 9 in which said ink ejector imprinting system utilizes a fluorescenT ink for imprinting machine readable impressions invisible to human readers.

Claim 16

System for editing a message according to claim 3 in which said edit indicating means includes an on-line, manually operated means for recording machine readable symbols on said machine readable record, said on-line means having a font which includes edit signal symbols for recording edit indicia upon said record.

Claim 17

System for editing a message according to claim 3 in which said manual edit indicating means includes an off-line, manual edit indicating means for recording a machine readable edit indicia on a record to specify an editing change to be made to said message.

Claim 18

System for editing a message according to claim 24, in which said reader includes a reading means for reading a man-machine readable record containing the primary intelligence, and in which said edit symbols may be recorded at message element locations arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said message.

Claim 19

A system for editing a message in accordance with claim 2 in which said inputting means includes a first manual control means for entering a message to be edited, said message revising means includes a message element store for storing the message elements of said message, and said manual edit indicating means includes a second manual control means for indicating subsequent to the storage of said message in said message element store the editing changes to be made to the message elements stored in said message element store.

Claim 20

System for editing a message according to claim 17 in which said message revising means further includes an intelligence arraying means having an automatic line ending means for providing formatting signals to permit page formatting, said formatting signals being associated with said resulting edited message.

Claim 21

System for editing symbolic and speech messages comprising an inputing means for entering: a message to be edited, editing indicia associated with said message to be edited, and message inserts to be inserted in said message to be edited, and a message synthesizer coupled to said inputting means, for changing said message to be edited in accordance with the editing instructions indicated by said editing indicia, the output of said message synthesizer being a message element train representative sequentially of message elements of said message as edited.

Claim 22

System for editing symbolic and speech messages comprising an inputing means for entering: a message to be edited, editing indicia associated with said message to be edited, and message inserts to be inserted in said message to be edited, and a message synthesizer coupled to said inputting means, for changing said message to be edited in accordance with the editing instructions indicated by said editing indicia, the output of said message synthesizer being a message element train representative sequentially of message elements of said message as edited.

Claim 23

System for editing a message in accordance with claim 19 in which said inputting means comprises a reading means for reading a record which contains primary intelligence which is both man and machine readable.

Claim 24

Editing system comprising a message handler including means for automatic handling of the elements of a message by physically handling the medium of the message, and means coupled to said automatic handling means for changing the elements of a message by physically inserting new elements to and physically deleting elements from the medium of the message.

Claim 25

Editing system comprising a message handler including means for automatic handling of the elements of a message by physically handling the medium of the message, and means coupled to said automatic handling means for changing the elements of a message by physically inserting new elements to and physically deleting elements from the medium of the message.

Claim 26

Automatic editing system comprising: a manually operated means for generating a man readable record, said manually operated means having a font which includes a conventional symbol set for recording primary intelligence as a message on said man readable record, and edit signal symbols for indicating desired changes to said message on said record; a machine readable record generating means coupled to said manually operated means for generating a machine readable record corresponding to, correlated with, and containing substantially the same intelligence as said man readable record; and machine reading means for reading said intelligence on said machine readable record and for interpreting said edit symbols on said machine readable record and for providing a message element train representative of said intelligence of said machine readable record as changed in accordance with the interpretation of said edit symbols.

Claim 27

Automatic editing system comprising: a manually operated means for generating a man readable record, said manually operated means having a font which includes a conventional symbol set for recording primary intelligence as a message on said man readable record, and edit signal symbols for indicating desired changes to said message on said record; a machine readable record generating means coupled to said manually operated means for generating a machine readable record corresponding to, correlated with, and containing substantially the same intelligence as said man readable record; and machine reading means for reading said intelligence on said machine readable record and for interpreting said edit symbols on said machine readable record and for providing a message element train representative of said intelligence of said machine readable record as changed in accordance with the interpretation of said edit symbols.

Claim 28

An automatic edIting system in accordance with claim 22 in which said manually operated means also includes an edit movement control means for moving said man readable record to permit said edit signal symbols to be superimposed upon any message space containing said primary intelligence recorded upon said record; and in which said machine readable record generating means includes encoding means for generating machine readable recordings corresponding to the symbols of said font of said manually operated means.

Claim 29

An automatic editing system in accordance with claim 23 in which said encoding means includes means for generating machine readable recordings of the movements effected by said edit movement control means.

Claim 30

An automatic editing system in accordance with claim 23 in which said machine readable record generating means also includes means for moving said machine readable record in one-to-one synchronization with the backward and advance movements of said man readable record.

Claim 31

An automatic editing system in accordance with claim 23 in which said machine readable record generating means includes means for reading back any of said machine readable recordings and for providing readback signals, a logic network coupled to and receiving said readback signals from said means for reading back, said logic network moving said machine readable record for synchronizing the symbols of the primary intelligences recorded on the man readable record with the corresponding symbols on the machine readable record.

Claim 32

Editing system according to claim 22 in which said machine readable record generating means includes a record stepping means and also includes logic means for including at least one unused message element space to permit a subsequent recording of an insert on said machine readable record, and said logic means is coupled to said record stepping means.

Claim 33

Editing system comprising: means for reading records; a message element store for temporarily storing the message elements read from said records; manual control means for indicating editing changes to be made to the message elements stored in said message element store; display means for displaying the message elements currently stored in said message element store; and an edit signal analyzer and control logic network for changing the message elements in said message element store in accordance with the editing changes indicated by said manual control means, said network being coupled to each of the following, said message element store, said manual control means, and said display means.

Claim 34

Editing system comprising: means for reading records; a message element store for temporarily storing the message elements read from said records; manual control means for indicating editing changes to be made to the message elements stored in said message element store; display means for displaying the message elements currently stored in said message element store; and an edit signal analyzer and control logic network for changing the message elements in said message element store in accordance with the editing changes indicated by said manual control means, said network being coupled to each of the following, said message element store, said manual control means, and said display means.

Claim 35

Editing system according to claim 28 in which said means for reading records is a means for reading a record which contains primary intelligence which is both man and machine readable.

Claim 36

Editing system according to claim 28 and which includes an intelligence arraying means having an automatic line ending means coupled to said logic network for associating appropriate formatting signals with said message elements to permit page formatting.

Claim 37

Editing system comprising: means for inputting a message; a message element store for storing the message elements read from said message; manual control means for indicating editing changes to be made to the message elements stored in said message element store; and an edit signal analyzer and control logic network coupled to said message element store and to said manual control means for changing the message elements stored in said message element store in accordance with the editing changes indicated by said manual control means.

Claim 38

Editing system comprising: means for inputting a message; a message element store for storing the message elements read from said message; manual control means for indicating editing changes to be made to the message elements stored in said message element store; and an edit signal analyzer and control logic network coupled to said message element store and to said manual control means for changing the message elements stored in said message element store in accordance with the editing changes indicated by said manual control means.

Claim 39

Editing system according to claim 31 in which said means for inputting a message is a means for reading a record which contains primary intelligence which is both man and machine readable.

Claim 40

Editing system comprising: means for reading a message recorded on a man-machine readable record; and manual control means for effecting editing changes to be made to said message on said man-machine readable record by controlling the operation of said reader and by inserting desired message inserts.

Claim 41

Editing system comprising: means for reading a message recorded on a man-machine readable record; and manual control means for effecting editing changes to be made to said message on said man-machine readable record by controlling the operation of said reader and by inserting desired message inserts.

Claim 42

In an intelligence handling system having a formatting point, a line advance mechanisms for advancing said formatting point to the beginning of the next line, and an automatic line advance region, and in which work breaking indicia occur in the intelligence, an automatic margining system comprising: a line advance conditions detector for detecting the coincidence of said word breaking indicia at said formatting point with said automatic line advance region, and a line advance actuating means coupled to said line advance conditions detector for actuating said line advance mechanism upon the detection of said coincidence.

Claim 43

In an intelligence handling system having a formatting point, a line advance mechanisms for advancing said formatting point to the beginning of the next line, and an automatic line advance region, and in which work breaking indicia occur in the intelligence, an automatic margining system comprising: a line advance conditions detector for detecting the coincidence of said word breaking indicia at said formatting point with said automatic line advance region, and a line advance actuating means coupled to said line advance conditions detector for actuating said line advance mechanism upon the detection of said coincidence.

Claim 44

In combination: an intelligence arraying means for arraying intelligence symbols into a number of lines from a message element train, said arraying means including a line advance mechanism for advancing the formatting point of said arraying means to the beginning of the next line; a first means for providing a first signal upon the occurrence of word breaking indicia at said formatting point; a second means for providing a second signal when said formatting point is within an automatic line advance region; and a third means for actuating said line advance mechanism upon the simultaneous occurrence of signals from said first means and from said second means.

Claim 45

In combination: an intelligence arraying means for arraying intelligence symbols into a number of lines from a message element train, said arraying means including a line advance mechanism for advancing the formatting point of said arraying means to the beginning of the next line; a first means for providing a first signal upon the occurrence of word breaking indicia at said formatting point; a second means for providing a second signal when said formatting point is within an automatic line advance region; and a third means for actuating said line advance mechanism upon the simultaneous occurrence of signals from said first means and from said second means.

Claim 46

The combination in accordance with claim 35 in which said arraying means comprises a typewriter having a space bar and space bar linkage and in which said first means includes a means for detecting character space signals which includes a space bar linkage actuation detector energized by the actuation of said space bar linkage for establishing said first signal.

Claim 47

The combination in accordance with claim 35 in which said arraying means comprises a typewriter having a platen and a typing point and in which said second means comprises a cam mechanism controlled by the relative location of said typing point on said platen for establishing said second signal.

Claim 48

The combination in accordance with claim 35 in which said arraying means comprises a typewriter having a line advance linkage attached to said line advance mechanism, and in which said third means comprises a solenoid actuator and circuit for actuating said line advance linkage whereby said line advance mechanism is energized.

Claim 49

The combination in accordance with claim 35 in which said arraying means also includes a keyboard, and a means for locking said keyboard; and in which said third means includes a means for energizing said means for locking during the interval when said line advance mechanism is advancing said formatting point to the beginning of the next line.

Claim 50

The combination in accordance with claim 35 which also includes a means coupled to said formatting point and to said automatic line advance region for providing a third signal to a manual operator of said arraying device when said formatting point passes a preselected location with respect to the boundaries of said automatic line advance region.

Claim 51

The combination in accordance with claim 35 in which said arraying means is a typewriter for manually generating said message element train.

Claim 52

The combination in accordance with claim 35 in which said arraying means comprises a justification preparation unit for arraying intelligence symbols in a number of lines each capable of being justified, and in which said second means also includes a logic means responsive to the justification increments determining factors contained in the intelligence symbols arrayed on a line for generating signals representing the justification increments allowable in justifying said line and for setting the boundaries of said automatic line advance region equal to said justification increments allowable.

Claim 55

In an intelligence arraying means having a line advance mechanism for advancing the formatting point of said arraying means to the beginning of the next line, the combination comprising: a first means for providing a first signal upon the occurrence of word breaking indicia at said formatting point; a second means for providing a second signal when said formatting point is within an automatic line advance region; and a third means for actuating said line advance mechanism upon the simultaneous occurrence of signals from said first means and from said second means.

Claim 56

In an intelligence arraying means having a line advance mechanism for advancing the formatting point of said arraying means to the beginning of the next line, the combination comprising: a first means for providing a first signal upon the occurrence of word breaking indicia at said formatting point; a second means for providing a second signal when said formatting point is within an automatic line advance region; and a third means for actuating said line advance mechanism upon the simultaneous occurrence of signals from said first means and from said second means.

Claim 57

System for editing a message comprising: a manual edit indicating means for specifying an editing change to be made to said message, said indicating means having an editing indicia output; an inputting means for converting said message and the output of said manual edit indicating means into signals suitable for logical processing, said inputting means including a reader for machine reading said message from a machine readable record and for automatically interpreting the output of said manual edit indicating means, said reader generating an output signal suitable for logical processing, said indicating means including manual control means for effecting an editing change to be made to said message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the generation of said message by controlling the operation of said reader and by inserting a desired message insert; and a message revising means coupled to said inputting means for editing said message by changing the message elements in said message in accordance with the editing change specified by said manual edit indicating means, said message revising means generating a resulting edited message.

Claim 58

System for editing a message comprising: a manual edit indicating means for specifying an editing change to be made to said message, said indicating means having an editing indicia output; an inputting means for converting said message and the output of said manual edit indicating means into signals suitable for logical processing, said inputting means including a reader for machine reading said message from a machine readable record and for automatically interpreting the output of said manual edit indicating means, said reader generating an output signal suitable for logical processing, said indicating means including manual control means for effecting an editing change to be made to said message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the generation of said message by controlling the operation of said reader and by inserting a desired message insert; and a message revising means coupled to said inputting means for editing said message by changing the message elements in said message in accordance with the editing change specified by said manual edit indicating means, said message revising means generating a resulting edited message.

Claim 59

System for editing a message according to claim 45 in which said message revising means includes an intelligence arraying means having an automatic line ending means for providing formatting signals to permit page formatting, said formatting signals being associated with said resulting edited message.

Claim 60

System for editing a message according to claim 46 in which said arraying means includes a line advance mechanism for advancing the formatting point of said arraying means to the beginning of the next line, and in which said automatic line ending means includes an automatic margining system comprising: a first means for providing a first signal upon the occurrence of word breaking indicia at said formatting point; a second means for providing a second signal when said formatting point is within an automatic line advance region; and a third means for actuating said line advance mechanism upon the simultaneous occurrence of signals from said first means and from said second means.

Claim 61

System for editing a message according to claim 47 in which said manual control means for effecting an editing change includes means for causing said reader to read in a one-character-at-a-time mode.

Claim 62

System for editing a message according to claim 48 which also includes manual switching means coupled to said message revising means for selectively placing said system in a textual mode or a tabular mode of operation; and in which said third means actuates said line advance mechanism upon the simultaneous occurrence of signals from said first means and from said second means provided the system is in the textual mode of operation.

Claim 63

System for editing a message according to claim 46 in which said reader includes a reading means for reading a man-machine readable record containing the primary intelligence.

Claim 64

Method of editing a message stored on a record in accordance with an editing change to be made to said message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the generation of said record comprising the steps of: providing a record, said record being machine readable; machine reading said message from said record by a reader under the control of a manual control means; providing first electrical signals from said reader representative of said message; impressing said first electrical signals onto a message revising means; providing stepping edit signals from said manual control means; operating said reader in a step-by-step mode in response to said stepping edit signals until the reading point of said reader is at said arbitrarily selectable message element location; inserting a desired message insert by manually keyboarding said insert on a keyboard of said manual control means; providing second electrical signals from said manual control means representative of said message insert; impressing said second electrical signals onto said message revising means; providing a start delete edit signal from said manual control means; inhibiting said first electrical signals from said reader in response to said start delete edit signal; providing an end delete edit signal from said manual control means; uninhibiting said first electrical signals in response to said end delete edit signal; said message revising means generating a message element train containing the intelligence of said record as modified in accordance with the desired editing change; and providing textual formatting signals to permit page formatting, said textual formatting signals being associated with said message element train, by providing a first signal upon the occurrence of word breaking indicia at the formatting point; providing a second signal when said formatting point is within an automatic line advance region; and providing a line advance textual formatting signal upon the simultaneous occurrence of said first signal and said second signal.

Claim 65

Method of editing a message stored on a record in accordance with an editing change to be made to said message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the generation of said record comprising the steps of: providing a record, said record being machine readable; machine reading said message from said record by a reader under the control of a manual control means; providing first electrical signals from said reader representative of said message; impressing said first electrical signals onto a message revising means; providing stepping edit signals from said manual control means; operating said reader in a step-by-step mode in response to said stepping edit signals until the reading point of said reader is at said arbitrarily selectable message element location; inserting a desired message insert by manually keyboarding said insert on a keyboard of said manual control means; providing second electrical signals from said manual control means representative of said message insert; impressing said second electrical signals onto said message revising means; providing a start delete edit signal from said manual control means; inhibiting said first electrical signals from said reader in response to said start delete edit signal; providing an end delete edit signal from said manual control means; uninhibiting said first electrical signals in response to said end delete edit signal; said message revising means generating a message element train containing the intelligence of said record as modified in accordance with the desired editing change; and providing textual formatting signals to permit page formatting, said textual formatting signals being associated with said message element train, by providing a first signal upon the occurrence of word breaking indicia at the formatting point; providing a second signal when said formatting point is within an automatic line advance region; and providing a line advance textual formatting signal upon the simultaneous occurrence of said first signal and said second signal.

Claim 66

Method of editing according to claim 51 which also includes the steps of: impressing said stepping edit signals onto said message revising means; examining and recognizing message element characteristics in said first signals element-by-element as read by said reader in accordance with said stepping edit signals; and stopping said reader upon recognizing message element characteristics in accordance with said stepping edit signals.

Claim 67

Method of editing according to claim 52 which also includes the steps of: manually selecting a textual or tabular mode of operation; providing third electrical signals representative of said message element train and associated formatting signals onto a generator of man-readable hardcopy records; generating a man-readable hardcopy record in response to said third electrical signals; and in which said textual formatting signals are provided in the textual mode of operation; said machine readable record and said keyboarding provide formatting signals which are associated with said message element-train in said tabular mode of operation; and said reader step-by-step modes includes a character-by-character step mode.

Claim 68

Method of incorporating an insert when automatically editing a message in an editing system having means for reading multiple spaced lines of message elements of said message to be edited, means to step-up the reading point of a reading means from one message space to a message space above in the multiple spaced region, means to step-down said reading point for returning to the primary intelligence message elements of said message to be edited, and means to move backwards said reading point, to the left along the message element line, comprising the steps of: detecting a step-up insert editing signal, stepping-up the reading Point to said multiple spaced region, reading the insert contained in said multiple spaced region, detecting the end of said insert, inhibiting the outputs of said reader, stepping-down the reading point of said reader to the primary intelligence of the message to be edited, moving the reading point backwards, detecting said step-up insert editing signal, resuming normal forward reading, and disinhibiting the output of said reader.

Claim 69

Method of incorporating an insert when automatically editing a message in an editing system having means for reading multiple spaced lines of message elements of said message to be edited, means to step-up the reading point of a reading means from one message space to a message space above in the multiple spaced region, means to step-down said reading point for returning to the primary intelligence message elements of said message to be edited, and means to move backwards said reading point, to the left along the message element line, comprising the steps of: detecting a step-up insert editing signal, stepping-up the reading Point to said multiple spaced region, reading the insert contained in said multiple spaced region, detecting the end of said insert, inhibiting the outputs of said reader, stepping-down the reading point of said reader to the primary intelligence of the message to be edited, moving the reading point backwards, detecting said step-up insert editing signal, resuming normal forward reading, and disinhibiting the output of said reader.

Claim 70

Editing system in accordance with claim 28 which also includes a manual edit indicating means for recording a machine readable edit indicia on said record to specify an editing change to be made to said message, in which said means for reading records includes means for automatically converting said edit indicia into a signal suitable for logical processing and in which said logic network also includes an input editing network which stores in said message element store a message element train containing the message elements read from said records as modified in accordance with said edit indicia.

Claim 71

Editing system according to claim 31 in which said system includes a display means coupled to said network for displaying the message elements currently stored in said message element store and in which said manual control means indicates an editing change to said message at a message element location arbitrarily selectable subsequent to the original generation of said message.

Claim 72

Editing system according to claim 56 in which said system includes an automatic line ending means for providing formatting signals to permit page formatting, said formatting signals being associated with the resulting edited message.

Claim 73

Editing system according to claim 57 in which said system includes means for displaying a pointer on said display to indicate the location in the message stored in the message element store where an editing change is to be made, and in which said network includes logic provisions to move the pointer in response to manual inputs into said manual control means.

Claim 74

Editing system in accordance with claim 31 in which said system includes a printer coupled to said network, in which said printer produces a hardcopy record of the message elements currently stored in said message store, and in which said network also includes an automatic line ending means for providing formatting signals to permit page formatting, said formatting signals being associated with the resulting edited message and said formatting signals causing the formatting point of said printer to be advanced to the beginning of the next line.