Image communication apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMakoto Satake
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide an image communication apparatus which can improve the noise-reducing effect when a ringing tone has been set to non-ringing or when an operation mode at a start time of recording is for recording at a fax receive time, and which can prevent a recording speed from lowering at a time when a ringing tone has been set to ringing, at a time of copying or at a similar time. There is provided an image communication apparatus which performs recording in a silent mode more silently than in a regular mode when a ringing tone has been set to non-ringing or when an operation mode at a start time of recording is for recording at a fax receive time, and performs recording in a regular mode at a time when a ringing tone has been set to ringing, at a time of copying or at a similar time.
Claims5
An image communication apparatus provided with receiving means for receiving image data from a partner communication apparatus through a communication line and recording means for recording image data received by the receiving means on a record medium, comprising:
- silent-record means for performing recording more silently than regularly;
- operation determining means for determining whether an operation mode at a start time of recording is for recording at a fax receive time or for recording at the other time;
- and
- control means for, when the operation mode at the start time of recording is for recording at the fax receive time, operating the silent-record means to perform recording more silently than regularly, while when the operation mode at the start time of recording is for recording at the other time, performing regular recording.
An image communication apparatus provided with receiving means for receiving image data from a partner communication apparatus through a communication line and recording means for recording image data received by the receiving means on a record medium, comprising:
- silent-record means for performing recording more silently than regularly;
- ringing tone setting means for setting a ringing state about ringing/non-ringing performed when a ringing signal has been received from a partner communication apparatus through the communication line;
- and
- control means for, when a state in which a ringing tone is not rung is set by the ringing tone ringing setting means, operating the silent-record means to perform recording more silently than regularly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.