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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5430800 | Facsimile apparatus A facsimile apparatus is provided with changeover means that makes it possible to pass signals through or to bypass a coder, which encrypts transmission information, and a decoder, which decodes encrypted information that has been received. Whether or not... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5420922 | System for the safe transmission of messages A system for safe transmission of a message with positive identification of the sender includes on the transmitter side telefax-type message-transmitting apparatus (10) and encryption means (22) for encrypting transmission signals from the telefax apparat... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5414773 | CATV systems A CATV system including a CATV network, a multiplicity of subscriber units, apparatus for transmitting over said CATV network encrypted information individually addressed to a subscriber unit and apparatus associated with each of said multiplicity of subs... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5410599 | Voice and data encryption device A portable voice and data encryption device designed to be used with normal wideband telephone and cellular telephones, computers and facsimile machines to transmit voice and data in encrypted form. The V/DED comprises a voice and data encryption module, ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5398283 | Encryption device A system for the encryption of documents is described. A document, which may contain not only text, but also handwriting, pictures, charts, or other graphic images, is converted into a bitmap. This bitmap is encrypted and printed, preferably in a widely-s... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5351136 | Facsimile apparatus and method for sending and receiving private information A FAX-receiving-and-output device for secret information and method therefore, which comprises a first and a second information transmission channels for transmitting non-secret information and secret information respectively; the second information trans... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5339361 | System and method for authenticating transmission and receipt of electronic information A communication system (10 and 100) is provided with a verification mechanism (16) to identify both the sender and recipient of electronic information (20). Input devices (12) in cooperation with verification mechanism (16) may be used to confirm the iden... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5321749 | Encryption device A system for the encryption of documents is described. A document, which may contain not only text, but also handwriting, pictures, charts, or other graphic images, is converted into a bitmap. This bitmap is encrypted and printed, preferably in a widely-s... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5258998 | Data communication apparatus permitting confidential communication A data communication apparatus, such as a facsimile machine, in which the data of a page is transmitted in plural blocks, and the sending unit designates the blocks to be released as output. In this manner particular data can be sent to a particular recei... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5255106 | Method and apparatus for delivering secured hard-copy facsimile documents Method and apparatus are provided for delivering hard-copy facsimile documents, the confidential information of which is visibly concealed. In general, the apparatus includes a facsimile message concealing mechanism which cooperates with a facsimile messa... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5253293 | Adaptive data ciphering/deciphering apparatuses and data communication system using these apparatuses A data communication system adaptable to a ciphered data communication includes a data transmission line (3) for transmitting ciphered or non-ciphered data between a data transmitting device and a data receiving device 11, a data transmitting device (1) f... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5241595 | Communication control section for facsimile equipment having a secure communication function A facsimile equipment including a memory for storing a cipher key data, ten number keys for inputting the cipher key data, a DTMF signal receiving circuit for converting a DTMF signal received through a telephone line into the cipher key data, a controlle... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5241596 | Facsimile apparatus, and method of controlling same A facsimile apparatus is disclosed in which a transmitting/receiving operation, as well as a copying operation, is performed by an operator in exactly the same manner regardless of whether an encrypting device is connected to the facsimile apparatus, and ... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5239314 | Thermally inprintable media incorporating non-reusable adhesive A printing medium for the printing of images thereon to form a document by the printer of a standard facsimile machine in a manner which renders the document unreadable to a casual observer. There is a strip of a flexible printing medium receivable by the... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5233653 | Apparatus and method for enciphered facsimile transmission and reception An enciphered facsimile apparatus in which encoded image data is fetched one block at a time, and chained encipherment is executed in a reverse direction, respectively. Upon completion of encipherment, the enciphered image data is read in the reverse dire... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5231663 | Image processing system An image processing system receives a series of pixel elements representative of a scanned image. The system converts the pixel elements into a vector representation of the scanned image. The vector representation of the scanned image is compared with kno... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5222138 | Remote signature rendering system & apparatus This invention relates to a remote signature system in which a signatory located at a remote location from the original document can receive a virtual image of the document to be signed and, using an electronic pen or the like, sign the virtual document. ... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5212558 | Using thermally transferred invisible ink detectable by exposure to invisible light of specific wavelength In a facsimile machine which receives transmit data based on an original that is transmitted from a facsimile transmit machine through a telephone line at its data scrambler and which records an image of the original that is transmitted by decoding the re... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5202920 | Facsimile equipment having a secure communication function The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus with the ability of secure communication. The apparatus comprises a ten-key set for entering cipher key data used in secure communication, a RAM for holding the cipher key data, a DTMF signal transmis... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5168371 | Image processing system for generating, storing, and transmitting image datafiles associated with enciphered identification information A picture image processing system for performing picture image processing operations in a picture image processing unit on picture input data from an input unit on the basis of corresponding job parameters to produce picture image datafiles for output by ... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5166977 | Protocol converter for a secure FAX transmission system A secure facsimile interface includes a main CPU (30) having associated therewith a bulk memory (32) for storing transfer data between a Group 3 facsimile machine (20) and a secure encryptor/decryptor telephone unit (10) that operates in accordance with M... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5166979 | Data transmitting equipment A data transmitting equipment transmitting data between a desired remote equipment connected via communication line, comprising password setting means, communication control means and status display means. The password set by a user is stored in the passw... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5163088 | Facsimile security system A facsimile and data security system is disclosed which provides security for all facsimile and data transmissions to prevent loss of information by delaying for review by security personnel selected facsimile and data transmissions. The system is configu... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5159635 | System for encoding data in machine readable graphic form A system for representing and recognizing data in machine readable graphic image form in which data to be encoded is entered into the system and a processor encodes the data into a two-dimensional pattern of graphic indicia and generates transfer drive si... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5159630 | Facsimile message encryption system A system for maintaining the security of information transmitted between facsimile machines includes a transmitting/receiving facsimile machine for receiving input sheets having an encryption zone; an image sensor for detecting the encryption zones; an en... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5001750 | Secret communication control apparatus A secret communication control apparatus used to effect secret communication with communication equipment, for example, facsimile equipment, which transmits picture information by use of public communication lines. When a communication control code that i... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4989244 | Data encripting transfer A data encripting transfer system includes a scanner for scanning an object to output an image signal, a data encripting device for encripting the image signal, and a data decoder for decoding the encripted image signal. The system further includes a card... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4985919 | Secure communication control system Encoder/decoders are associated with conventional local and far-end communications equipment such as facsimile machines. Information to be faxed is encoded at one end, transmitted to the other end, and decoded, without affecting normal communications prot... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4972473 | Data communication method and apparatus using neural-networks A data communication apparatus comprises: means for dividing data to be transmitted into a plurality of blocks and extracting the data from each block; a first multi-layered neural network of three or more layers which has weighting coefficients to output... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4912761 | Security facsimile systems A security method and apparatus for use in providing an "invisible envelope" for facsimile transmission thereby avoiding the casual reading of documents by persons interposed between the receiver of the transmission and the ultimate designated recipient t... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4896355 | Patterning device for security facsimile systems A device for photocopying a document to produce two partial documents for secure transmission. A transparent sheet is placed on the cover glass and has a pattern thereon of portions which are complementary along longitudinally equal shift distances. There... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4600921 | Full-field teletext system with dynamic addressability The present invention permits a teletext system operator to adjust subscriber access to service levels individually by adjusting a code at the head end station. A head-end station transmits a tier description page and a tier authorization page. The tier d... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4463417 | Modular, processor-controlled document distribution terminal A document distribution terminal is organized with two supervisory processing units, one to control the data entry and data printing and the other to control the terminal. Each of these processing units only performs control functions. All of the data pro... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4459611 | Image conversion system The image converting system including an image input step or apparatus for converting an original document information into electric image signals an inputting them, an image processing step or apparatus for processing the original document information su... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4454575 | Shared memory system with access by specialized peripherals managed by controller initialized by supervisory CPU A document distribution terminal can be required to process large volumes of data. To do this rapidly and efficiently, the terminal herein is organized to process all of the data in specialized peripheral devices. A supervising central processing unit (CP... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4392021 | Secure facsimile transmission system using time-delay modulation Method and apparatus for secure transmission of analog signals, particularly facsimile signals. The analog signal is first converted to a frequency-modulated signal, if not already one, and is then converted to a sequence of digital words representing the... | 07/05/1983 |
| 4140873 | Multi-mode digital enciphering system The specification discloses an electronic digital enciphering system which is selectively operable in a plurality of different modes. The system may be operated in an off-line mode for preparing enciphered message tapes prior to transmission via teleprint... | 02/20/1979 |
