Internet facsimile apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTeiji Terasaka
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Abstract
An object of the invention is to provide an internet facsimile apparatus used by plural users, capable of reading out an electronic mail to each user by a simple operation. The internet facsimile apparatus includes, in an operation portion, a function key such as a mail transmission key, a mail confirmation key, a mail print key and a communication table key, a user key in correspondence to which personal data such as a mail address is registered, and an opposite side key, and processings can be carried out by performing a key entry in a combination of the keys. For example, when the mail print key, together with the user key, is pressed, an electronic mail reaching a mail address registered in correspondence to the user key is read out and image data is printed.
Claims16
An internet facsimile apparatus which converts image data read out by a scanner into electronic mail data to transmit the electronic mail data as an electronic mail, comprising:
- a user key in correspondence to which a mail address of each user is registered;
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- a function key panel including mail function keys for image data output which includes pressing at least one of the mail function keys together with the user key to read out the image data converted from electronic mail data of the electronic mail which was sent to the user's mail address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.