Image communication apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMakoto Mikuni
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Abstract
An image communication apparatus includes a recorder for recording image data on a page unit basis; a buffer memory for temporarily storing the image data to be recorded by the recorder; a reception unit for receiving the image data; and a controller for controlling to store the received image data or the image data to be recorded, in the buffer memory; wherein the controller selectively executes a first mode, for storing the image data to be recorded in the buffer memory or a second mode, for storing the received image data sequentially in the buffer memory.
Claims10
An image communication apparatus comprising:
- receiving means for receiving image data;
- an image memory for storing the image data received by said receiving means;
- a buffer memory for temporarily storing received image data of one page or more read out from said image memory;
- recording means for recording received image data read out from said buffer memory, for each page;
- detecting means for detecting whether or not said recording means is capable of recording the received image data;
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- control means for controlling storage of the received image data in said image memory and said buffer memory, in accordance with a detection result obtained by said detecting means,
- wherein, when said recording means is incapable of recording the received image data, said control means discriminates whether available memory capacity of said image memory has reached a predetermined amount, and causes said buffer memory to store therein the received image data of said image memory in accordance with a result of such discrimination.
An image communication apparatus comprising:
- reading means for reading an image;
- receiving means for receiving image data;
- recording means for recording image data on a page unit basis;
- a buffer memory for temporarily storing any image data to be recorded by said recording means;
- control means for controlling storage in said buffer memory,
- wherein said control means operates in a first mode, in which any image data stored in said buffer memory is non-compressed image data, and in a second mode, in which any image data stored in said buffer memory is image data which has been encoded and compressed by a predetermined encoding scheme.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.