Patent Document ID: 4204090
Application ID: 05942916

Base Claim:
1. A process for reducing the redundancy of binary character sequences which describe information including characters and graphic patterns represented in punctiform fashion, wherein within the binary character sequences each binary character having a first binary value is assigned to a point which is to be represented and at least one interval corresponding to one printing element is provided between two points represented by the same output component, wherein each element is divided into a plurality of sub-elements, and wherein the binary character sequences represent the information divided into sub-elements, the improvement therein comprising the steps of: generating and assigning code words such that of the possible combinations of a group of binary characters of the binary code sequences the code words are assigned to those combinations in which a binary character having a first binary value is followed by at least one predetermined number of binary characters having a second binary value, the predetermined number being dependent on the number of sub-elements within a printing element; transmitting the code words, in place of the binary character sequences, to a receiver; receiving the transmitted code words; reassigning the original binary character sequences to the received code words; and feeding the binary character sequences to operate output components.

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Claim 8:
8. The improved process of claim 1, wherein the step of generating and assigning is further defined as: scanning a format which contains a graphic pattern; and producing scanner signals corresponding to the scanned pattern.