Abstract:
An apparatus for transmitting read data comprises a document reader 101, a data compression unit 102, a data transmission means and a CPU 104. The document reader 101 reads in a document having been subjected to predetermined data processing. The data compression unit 102 performs compression of the read data with a designated file format. The CPU 104 checks the limitation on transmission capacity set in advance for each data transmission means. When the volume of data compressed for transmission falls within the limited range of transmission capacity set for the data transmission means, the read data is transmitted to a destination designated by the user via the data transmission means designated by the user.
Abstract:
In a data communication apparatus for encoding information data by using a predetermined encoding method, encoded information data is transmitted isochronously with a predetermined communication cycle when the encoding method corresponds to a decoding method at an object node apparatus and non-encoded information data is transmitted asynchronously with the communication cycle when the encoding method does not correspond to the decoding method at the object node apparatus. It is therefore possible to perform an encoding process for the information data to be transmitted, in accordance with a decoding performance at the object node apparatus, to improve a communication efficiency, and to reduce a capacity of a memory used for communications.
Abstract:
To detect facsimile calls that are initiated manually by a user, a method is used that utilizes the detection of a called (CED) tone generated by a receiving facsimile machine. The detection is performed by a signal processor. Once the detection is made, the facsimile call is transmitted using an appropriate protocol.
Abstract:
A store-and-forward image communications system for transmitting an image signal from a first terminal to a second terminal in one of a plurality of transmission modes which comprises a transmission path between the first and second terminals, a first image signal interface in said transmission path at which said image signal is received, a message store connected to store and subsequently recall signals received at the first interface, a data store containing at least one record comprising preference data relating to preferred said transmission modes for at least one of said first and second terminals, a transmission controller selecting from said transmission control modes in accordance with said preference data and a data update arranged to update the or each said record.
Abstract:
In a facsimile system, buffer underflow is prevented by forcing the transmit pointer to wait at a current end-of-line (EOL) symbol and transmit fill bits until there are at least two EOL symbols stored in the buffer. Buffer overflow is controlled by selectively dropping lines if the write pointer approaches too close to the transmit pointer and the difference between successive lines is sufficiently small (selective line-dropping), dropping lines whenever a permitted maximum buffer size is exceeded, and gradually changing the permitted distance between transmit and write pointers and permitted maximum buffer size as the image is scanned to accomplish a smooth buffer flushing.
Abstract:
In a data communication apparatus for encoding information data by using a predetermined encoding method, encoded information data is transmitted isochronously with a predetermined communication cycle when the encoding method corresponds to a decoding method at an object node apparatus and non-encoded information data is transmitted asynchronously with the communication cycle when the encoding method does not correspond to the decoding method at the object node apparatus. It is therefore possible to perform an encoding process for the information data to be transmitted, in accordance with a decoding performance at the object node apparatus, to improve a communication efficiency, and to reduce a capacity of a memory used for communications.
Abstract:
A store-and-forward image communications system for transmitting an image signal from a first terminal (24) to a second terminal (10) in one of a plurality of transmission modes which comprises: a trnmssion path (12, 14, 16, 18, 20) between the first and second terminals (10. 24); a first image. signal interface (20) in said transmission path at which said image signal is received: a message store (116) connected to store and subsequently real signals received at the first interface (20); a data store (302) containing at least one record (320) comprising preference data relating to preferred said trnmission modes for at least one. of said first and second terminals (10. 24); a transmission controller (118) selecting from said tranmission control modes in accordance with said preference data; and a data updater (304) arranged to update the or each said record (320).
Abstract:
An image capture, conversion, compression, storage and transmission system provides a data signal representing the image in a format and protocol capable of being transmitted over any of a plurality of readily available transmission systems and received by readily available, standard equipment receiving stations. In its most comprehensive form, the system is capable of sending and receiving audio, documentary and visual image data to and from standard remote stations readily available throughout the world.
Abstract:
A digital camera includes a shutter button. An optimal compression ratio of an image signal fetched in response to a photographing instruction from the shutter button is predicted prior to the photographing instruction. More specifically, an image signal fetched before application of the photographing instruction is compressed by a JPEG codec, and the optimal compression ratio is predicted based on a size of a compressed image signal thus obtained. An image signal fetched in response to the photographing instruction is compressed on the basis of the optimal compression ratio, and a compressed image signal thus obtained is recorded onto a recording medium.
Abstract:
When a plurality of pages of image data are combined into one page of image data for transmission, the direct combination of the image data having different resolutions and the resulting recording of the image data on one record sheet while the image is partially expanded or reduced are prevented. In combining two pages of image data into one page of image data for transmission within a range in which the number of read lines of read image data does not exceed the number of available lines for recording per page at a transmission destination terminal, if the read resolutions of both image data are equal, the two pages of image data are combined into one page of image data for transmission, and if the read resolutions are different, the combination is not conducted and the image data of the respective pages are transmitted as the independent pages of image data. A facsimile apparatus minimizes the possibility of transmission disable due to a full state of a memory when a plurality of pages of image data having short sub-scan lengths stored in the memory are transmitted. The image data acquired by reading a document sheet by a contact sensor 13 is compression-coded by an encoder 103 of a read/write codec device 10 and it is stored in an image memory 6. After a plurality of pages of image data having short sub-scan lengths have been stored in the image memory 6, the image data are combined into one page of image data on a communication protocol and it is transmitted to a transmission destination apparatus through a modem 17 and a network control unit 18. When it is detected that a remaining capacity of the image memory 6 is small, the combination transmission of the image data is canceled and the image data stored in the image memory 6 is immediately read and transmitted.