Facsimile apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakehiro Yoshida
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Abstract
An image communication apparatus such as a facsimile apparatus comprises a reading circuit to read images of both of the front and back sides of an original to be transmitted, a discriminating circuit to discriminate the presence or absence of the image of the side of the original which was read by the reading circuit, and a transmitting circuit for transmitting the image of the side excluding the side of the original without the image on the basis of the result of the judgment of the discriminating circuit.
Claims16
An image communication apparatus comprising:
- read means for reading both faces of an original;
- addition means for adding information representing a front face to images on the front faces of all the originals read by said read means, and for adding information representing a back face to images on the back faces of all the originals;
- and
- transmission means for transmitting the images with the information added by said addition means, wherein said addition means adds the information representing the front or the back face to the image together with a page number.
An image communication apparatus comprising:
- read means for reading both faces of an original;
- addition means for adding information representing a front face to images on the front faces of all the originals read by said read means, and for adding information representing a back face to images on the back faces of all the originals;
- and
- transmission means for transmitting the images with the information added by said addition means, wherein said addition means adds the information representing the front or the back face to the image together with a page number, wherein said addition means adds the information representing the front or the back face to the image after the page number.
An image communication method comprising the steps of:
- reading both faces of an original;
- adding information representing a front face to images on the front faces of all the originals read in said reading step, and adding information representing a back face to images on the back faces of all the originals;
- and
- transmitting the images with the information added in said adding step, wherein, in said adding step, the information representing the front or the back face is added to the image together with a page number.
An image communication method comprising the steps of:
- reading both faces of an original;
- adding information representing a front face to images on the front faces of all the originals read in said reading step, and adding information representing a back face to images on the back faces of all the originals;
- and
- transmitting the images with the information added in said adding step, wherein, in said adding step, the information representing the front or the back face is added to the image together with a page number, wherein, in said adding step, the information representing the front or the back face is added to the image after the page number.
An image communication apparatus comprising:
- read means for reading both faces of an original;
- addition means for adding information representing a front face to images on the front faces of all the originals read by said read means, and for adding information representing a back face to images on the back faces of all the originals;
- and
- transmission means for transmitting the images with the information added by said addition means.
An image communication method comprising the steps of:
- reading both faces of an original;
- adding information representing a front face to images on the front faces of all the originals read in said reading step, and adding information representing a back face to images on the back faces of all the originals;
- and
- transmitting the images with the information added in said adding step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.