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US 4,581,656 AGranted
Facsimile communication apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorYoshinori Wada
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Abstract
A facsimile communication apparatus of the type which once stores facsimile data to be transmitted after scanning includes an information adding circuit which adds such information as source of transmission, total number of pages and current page number to each page of facsimile data before transmission. The present apparatus also keeps the current page number of a batch of facsimile data being transmitted and allows to transmit facsimile data from that portion corresponding to the current page number when transmission is resumed after interruption.
Claims5
A facsimile communication apparatus comprising:
- storing means for storing information;
- first counting means for counting the total number of pages while storing a batch of image information in said storing means;
- second counting means for counting the number of pages of said batch of image information which have so far been transmitted;
- means for adding the information of said count in said first and second counting means to said batch of image information before transmission;
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- control means for controlling the transmission of said batch of image information having the additional information in accordance with the count of said second counting means such that said batch of image information is transmitted from the portion corresponding to the current count of said second counting means when transmission is resumed after interruption until the count of said second counting means has reached the count of said first counting means.
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