Image data communication apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShigeo Miura
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Abstract
There is disclosed an image data communicating apparatus which has a floppy disc drive and can store communication image data onto a floppy disc. The apparatus has a clock circuit, a memory, and a comparator and calculates the elapsed time at which the floppy disc drive is not driven, and when the elapsed time has reached a preset period of time, the floppy disc drive is driven, thereby moving a contact point between the floppy disc and a read/write head.
Claims10
An image data communicating apparatus having a plurality of recording means each being capable of recording communication image data, said plurality of recording means including a floppy disc which is driven by a floppy disc driver, said apparatus comprising:
- clock means providing a present time;
- memory means for storing a time indicating when the floppy disc driver is driven, according to the present time provided by said clock means;
- and
- control means for determining how long said floppy disc driver is left in a non-driving state from the time stored in said memory means and for driving the floppy disc driver in order to change a position of a read/write head of said floppy disc when said floppy disc driver is left in the non-driving state for longer than a reference time.
An image data communicating apparatus having a plurality of recording means each being capable of recording communication image data, said plurality of recording means including a floppy disc which is driven by a floppy disc driver, said apparatus comprising:
- clock means for clocking a predetermined time interval;
- and
- control means for driving said floppy disc driver on a basis of a clocking operation of said clock means to change an idle position of a read/write head of said floppy disc and stopping said floppy disc driver.
An image communication apparatus, comprising:
- image communication means for communicating image data;
- recording and reproducing means for recording information relating to the image data communicated by said image communication means;
- counter means for counting an inoperative period of said recording and reproducing means;
- and
- control means for driving said recording and reproducing means for a predetermined time when a count value of said counter means exceeds a predetermined value, to change a relative position between a recording medium and a head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.