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US 5,311,579 AGranted
Image communication apparatus with instructed communication result transmittal
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakehiro Yoshida
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Abstract
An image communication apparatus performs polling transmission of the information relating to the past communicating processing, or polling transmission of the received image data in the image memory, which is discriminated by the discriminating information included in the information, to the other station in accordance with a requirement by control information or a communication procedure from a calling station.
Claims14
An image communicating apparatus comprising:
- receiving means for receiving image data;
- first memory means for storing received image data, wherein said first memory means stores plural kinds of image data;
- recording means for recording the image data stored in said first memory means;
- second memory means for storing information regarding a communication result of each image data received by said receiving means, the information including information indicating whether or not the received image data are stored in said first memory means;
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- transmission means for transmitting the information stored in said second memory means as image information to a calling station in accordance with a first instruction signal from the calling station, and transmitting image data stored in the first memory means to the calling station in accordance with a second instruction signal from the calling station.
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An image communication method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a plurality of image data,
- storing the received image data,
- recording the stored image data,
- storing information regarding each communication result of said plurality of received image data, the information including information indicating whether or not the received image data are stored,
- transmitting the information regarding each communication result as image information to a calling station in accordance with a first instruction signal from the calling station, and
- transmitting the received image data to the calling station in accordance with a second instruction signal from the calling station.
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An image communicating apparatus comprising:
- receiving means for receiving image data;
- first memory means for storing received image data, wherein said first memory means stores plural kinds of image data;
- recording means for recording the image data stored in said first memory means;
- second memory means for storing information regarding a communication result of each image data received by said receiving means, the information including information indicating an existence of a communication error;
- and
- transmission means for transmitting the information stored in said second memory means as image information to a calling station in accordance with a first instruction signal from the calling station, and transmitting image data stored in the first memory means to the calling station in accordance with a second instruction signal from the calling station.
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An image communication method, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a plurality of image data,
- storing the received image data,
- recording the stored image data,
- storing information regarding each communication result of said plurality of received image data, the information including information indicating an existence of a communication error,
- transmitting the information regarding each communication result as image information to a calling station in accordance with a first instruction signal from the calling station, and
- transmitting the received image data to the calling station in accordance with a second instruction signal from the calling station.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.