Patents by Inventor Roy E. Dempster

Roy E. Dempster has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4913295
    Abstract: Document processor equipment for processing documents requiring operator intervention for the purpose of functions like key entry and encoding of data associated with certain ones of the documents includes an improved system for transporting and presenting documents to the operator for such intervention. A document view station has split parallel transport paths for routing documents requiring operator intervention to the front path near the operator with documents not requiring operator intervention being routed to and along a rear path, the respective routing being effected by a diverter automatically controlled in response to information read from the documents. A preview station and document hold station are respectively provided upstream and downstream from the document view station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: BancTec, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Murphy, Roy E. Dempster, Jr., Michael R. Barnes, Michael J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 4722444
    Abstract: Document processor equipment for processing documents requiring operator intervention for the purpose of functions like key entry and encoding of data associated with certain ones of the documents includes an improved system for transporting and presenting documents to the operator for such intervention. A document view station has split parallel transport paths for routing documents requiring operator intervention to the front path near the operator with documents not requiring operator intervention being routed to and along a rear path, the respective routing being effected by a diverter automatically controlled in response to information read from the documents. A preview station and document hold station are respectively provided upstream and downstream from the document view station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1988
    Assignee: BancTec Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Murphy, Roy E. Dempster, Jr., Michael R. Barnes, Michael J. Murphy
  • Patent number: 4510619
    Abstract: A document processing system including a modular transport system which includes a digital image capture system, character recognition circuitry, document encoding systems, endorsers, audit trail printers and an in-line microfilm record system. Associated video terminals and non-impact printers are utilized to provide visual images of documents processed by the system. Selected documents may be read, endorsed, encoded, digitally imaged, filmed and sorted in a single continuous pass through the document processing system of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1985
    Assignee: BancTec, Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Q. LeBrun, John Torkelson, Roy E. Dempster, Richard G. Van Tyne