Data buffer apparatus with interrupted transmission/reception
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMakoto Satoh, Takahiro Onsen
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Abstract
Data buffer apparatus comprising two connectors directly fittable respectively with connectors of data transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus, and accumulating means for accumulating data. In this buffer apparatus, the data buffer apparatus is capable of a function for accumulating data, entered from the data transmitting apparatus through the first connector in a state in which the connector the date transmitting apparatus is fitted with the first connector, in the accumulating means; and a function for transmitting data, accumulated in the accumulating means, to a data receiving apparatus in a state in which the connector of the date receiving apparatus is fitted with the second connector.
Claims28
A data buffer apparatus comprising:
- reception means for receiving data transmitted from a data transmitting apparatus;
- accumulation means for accumulating the received data;
- transmission means for transmitting the accumulated data to a data receiving apparatus;
- first section means for sectionalizing the received data by blocks on the basis of a predetermined code in the received data;
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- second section means for, in response to a manual instruction, sectionalizing as a block accumulated data which has not been sectionalized by the first section means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.