Data communication apparatus adapted to perform data communication and speech communication
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMotoaki Yoshino
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Abstract
A data communication apparatus includes a device for performing data communication in a data communication mode, a device for performing speech communication in a speech communication mode, a detector for detecting a signal from a calling station indicating that the calling station is in a data communication mode, and a controller for switching, during speech communication in the speech communication mode, the data communication apparatus from the speech communication mode to the data communication mode in response to the detecting of the signal by the detector.
Claims15
A data communicating apparatus comprising:
- means for performing data communication in a data communication mode;
- means for performing speech communication in a speech communicating mode;
- detection means for detecting a signal from a calling station indicating that the calling station is in a data communication mode;
- and
- control means for switching, during speech communication in the speech communication mode by said speech communication means, said data communicating apparatus from the speech communication mode to the data communication mode in response to the detecting of said detection means.
A data communicating apparatus comprising:
- means for receiving a communication request from a calling station;
- means for performing data communication;
- means for performing speech communication;
- detection means for detecting a signal from the calling station indicating that the calling station is in a data communication mode;
- and
- control means for enabling said speech communication means and said data communication means, selectively, in response to the communication request and for switching between the performing of speech communication by said speech communication means and the performing of data communication by said data communication means in response to the detecting by said detection means.
A facsimile apparatus comprising:
- means for receiving a communication request from a calling station;
- means for performing image data communication;
- means for performing speech communication;
- detection means for detecting a signal from the calling station representing a calling tone;
- control means for enabling said speech communication means in response to the communication request and for switching from the performing of speech communication by said speech communication means to the performing of image data communication by said image data communication means in response to the detection of the signal.
A facsimile apparatus according to claim 17, wherein said recording medium comprises a memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.