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US 4,717,967 AGranted
Image recording apparatus with recording medium quanity detecting means
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakehiro Yoshida
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Abstract
An image recording apparatus such as a facsimile apparatus has a recorder, a control circuit, a display circuit, a sensor for detecting a quantity of remaining recording paper, and an auxiliary memory for storing data which has been received but not yet recorded due to short supply of recording paper. When image information is recorded in a divided manner or recording of image information is interrupted during reception of such information, this state can be displayed.
Claims13
An image recording apparatus comprising:
- first recording means for recording an image on a recording medium in accordance with input image information;
- detecting means for detecting that a quantity of remaining recording medium has reached a predetermined quantity;
- control means responsive to an output from said detecting means for interrupting a recording operation of said first recording means according to the input image information;
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- second recording means for recording specific information on a recording medium, the specific information indicating that the recording operation of said first recording means according to the input image information is interrupted.
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An image processing apparatus comprising:
- processing means for processing image information;
- detecting means for detecting that the image information subjected to processing by said processing means has reached a predetermined quantity;
- control means for controlling said processing means to process the image information on a divisional basis in the event that image information remains to be processed when said detecting means detects that a predetermined quantity of image information has been processed;
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- output means for outputting top said processing means predetermined identification information indicating that the image information is processed being divided into a plurality of pages in the event that image information remains to be processed when said detecting means detects that a predetermined quantity of image information has been processed, wherein said output means outputs the predetermined identification information at the beginning of the page of which the remaining image information is processed.
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An image recording apparatus comprising:
- recording means for recording on recording media in accordance with image information to be received;
- detecting means for detecting that a remaining quantity of the recording media has reached a predetermined quantity;
- memory means for storing the image information;
- control means for controlling said memory means to store therein the image information in accordance with the output of said detecting means while the image information is being received;
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- output means for outputting a signal indicating that the image information has been stored in said memory means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.