Patent GB-1415359-A (GB)
Title: Receiver for facsimile system
IPC: H04N1/419
Filed: 1972-12-27
Abstract: 1415359 Copying by scanning MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO Ltd 27 Dec 1972 [24 Dec 1971] 59654/72 Heading H4F  A facsimile receiver operates to decode a received binary signal representing the runlengths of the black marks and white spaces on an original scanned at a transmitter (described with reference to Figs. 5-11, not shown, but not claimed), and to produce a copy on a recording medium 73 using a cathode-ray tube 72 fitted with a fibreoptics faceplate and receiving the decoded signal; the decoding is controlled by counters 80, 81 and 84 receiving clock pulses from 62 via gates G1, G2 controlled respectively by gate pulses from a gate pulse generator 69, and the outputs of coincident circuits 82, 86. The received signal includes synchronizing pulses each of which indicates the end of one line of fascimile information, and these pulses are separated at 64 and control a driver 76 to move recording medium 73 after each line has been recorded. The received coded binary signals have been coded so that, for run lengths greater than 2, the code includes upper and lower bits, the lower bits being the binary equivalent of the "run-length minus one" and the upper bits being a number of zeros, this number being one less than the number of bits of the lower bits. Each bit is received during one line period of scanning of the original at the transmitter and of scanning of cathode-ray tube 72, the same line of the medium 73 being repeatedly scanned by tube 72 until all the information relating to that line has been received and decoded. For each black mark or white space, the number of zeros is counted by counter 66, the lower bits being read into shift register 68. When the number of lower bits read into shift register 68 is equal to the number of zeros counted by counter 66, circuit 67 produces a "code division" pulse which is fed to a gate pulse generator 69, which also receives timing pulses from a generator 65, horizontal synchronizing pulses and horizontal blanking pulses from generator 70, and the demodulated received signal. Gate pulse generator 69 (also Fig. 15, not shown) produces a gate pulse lasting from the horizontal synchronizing pulse following the "code division" pulse to the following line blanking pulse. The gate pulse gates clock pulses from 62 through AND gate G1 to a binary counter 80. A second binary counter 81 retains the clock pulses counted during the preceding marks and spaces of that line and when the count in counter 80 equals that in 81 coincidence circuit 82 produces an output which sets flip-flop 83. The output of a second flip-flop 87 is "1" only if the received code relates to a mark, and in this case the "1" signal from flip -flop 83 is passed through an AND gate G4 to an amplifier 74 and then to tube 72 to produce a black mark on medium 73. The "1" output of flip-flop 83 also enables an AND gate G2 to pass clock pulses to binary counter 81, and also, via a one-bit eliminator 85 (as the received lower bits represent one less than the desired run-length) to a further binary counter 84. When the count in counter 84 equals the lower bits in register 68, coincident circuit 86 produces an output to reset flip-flop 83 which cuts off the inputs to amplifier 74 and counters 81, 84. Gate pulse generator 69 also passes "clear" and "rewrite" signals to shift register 68, the latter to ensure that the first "1" of each code is not cleared if timing errors occur in the received signal.