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US 4,922,349 AGranted
Data communication apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShintaro Abe, Kaoru Nakamura
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Abstract
When data communication is to be performed, character code data and image data are divided into different block areas, the block area of the image data is further divided into block areas in accordance with image characteristics of the image data, and the data of the respective block areas are communicated, thereby efficiently communicating the data.
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A data communication apparatus comprising:
- generating means for generating data comprising, in at least one page, character code data and plural kinds of image data;
- dividing means for dividing said plural kinds of image data and said character code data as respective different block areas and for further dividing the block area corresponding to said image data into plural block areas in accordance with characteristics of the image data;
- and
- communication means for communicating data of the block areas divided by said dividing means.
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A data communication comprising:
- generating means for generating data comprising, in at least one page, character code data and plural kinds of image data;
- dividing means for dividing said plural kinds of image data and said character code data as respective different block area and for further dividing the block area corresponding to said image data into plural block areas in accordance with characteristics of the image data;
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- converting means for converting data of the block area in accordance with a function of a destination station.
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A data communication apparatus comprising:
- generating means for generating mixture data comprising character data and plural kinds of image data;
- dividing means for dividing said mixture data into plural block areas at least in accordance with a type of the image data in the respective block area;
- sending means for sending data of the block areas divided by said dividing means;
- and
- converting means for converting data of the block areas in accordance with a function of a destination station.
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A data communication apparatus comprising:
- generating means for generating mixture data comprising character data and plural kinds of image data;
- dividing means for dividing the mixture data into plural block areas at least in accordance with a type of the image data in the respective block area, said dividing means being adapted to add information representing a type of image data of the block area to the respective block area;
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- sending means for sending data of the block areas divided by said dividing means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.