Abstract: 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 encryption device for scrambling messages that appear within an encryption zone. Further the system includes means for sensing encryption zones on transmitted messages and for decoding messages that have been scrambled within the encryption zones.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 29, 1991
Date of Patent:
October 27, 1992
Assignee:
International Communication Systems Corporation
Inventors:
Ling-Yuan Tseng, Min-Chih Hsuan, Sheng-Wen Hong