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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5745662 | Signal processing apparatus of a printer utilizing interruption signals An LED printer 21, after power-on, take steps a1 to a6 for preparation and then steps a7 to a9 for printing operation, as shown in FIG. 28. In controlling the printing operation at step a9, the temperature of a fixing unit 46 is detected by a thermistor o... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5745661 | Composite-image forming apparatus with control of recovery operation from jammed state An image forming apparatus includes a unit for inputting image information from an external apparatus, a unit for forming an image on a recording medium, a unit for reading an original, a unit for detecting a jam of the recording medium, a unit for being ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5742402 | Communication apparatus A facsimile apparatus and a facsimile communication method prevent the termination of communication in error due to memory capacity shortage when confidential communication or relay designation communication is effected by using a sub-address additionally... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5740496 | Image forming apparatus A multijob image forming apparatus performing the following operation, which allows operation similar to single job operation without increasing number of keys on an operation panel, is provided. When two jobs, that is, reading and printing are stopped by... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5739918 | Facsimile machine with a mailbox function A facsimile machine including a memory forming a mailbox storing predetermined data; a speaker used to monitor a telephone circuit during an answering machine mode of the facsimile machine; reception unit for receiving DTMF signals inputted from a remote ... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5740497 | Image processing apparatus that can execute interruption job efficiently In an image processing apparatus, determination is made whether an interruptive print wait state is attained during interruptive printing. When determination is made that the apparatus is in an interruptive print wait state, an interruption recover proces... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5734481 | Copying apparatus for carrying out a copying operation between an active section and a stand-by section A copying apparatus is connected to active and stand-by sections (11, 12) each of which has a specific data signal. The active section has a memory unit (14) for memorizing a plurality of data signals and an accessing unit (13) for accessing the memory un... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5729667 | Power saving facsimile device A power saving facsimile includes a power supply circuit for supplying a plurality of voltage levels. A switch disconnects and connects the plurality of voltage levels from and to corresponding circuits in response to first and second states of a switchin... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5729268 | Printing apparatus and method of controlling the same A printing apparatus for superposing and recording images of respective recording color components constituting one page on a predetermined recording medium to form a color image includes an operation unit for instructing to stop printing processing, an o... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5719684 | Image forming apparatus having an endless conveying and transferring belt with an interrupt control In an image forming apparatus having an endless transferring and conveying device for conveying a recording medium and electrostatically transferring a toner image from an image carrier to the medium, the mechanical operation of an image forming section i... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5720014 | Image processing apparatus connectable to an information processing terminal Disclosed is an image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus comprises interface means for exchanging data with an external information processing terminal, instruction receipt means for receiving an instruction via said interface means from said... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5710843 | Document processing apparatus having a communication/facsimile function with selective memory switching In a document processing method and apparatus, having both a communication function and a data processing function, when the communication function is performed during execution of the data processing function, data of the interrupted data processing, whi... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5696599 | Method and apparatus for modifying handshake data transmissions A method and apparatus for modifying communications handshake data includes the interception of a first handshake transmission generated by a local unit in response to a request from a remote unit. The intercepted transmission is prevented from being tran... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5684602 | Facsimile apparatus with coding/decoding interrupt A facsimile apparatus comprises a receiving buffer for receiving video data, a scanner for reading an image, a VRAM for storing a coded data, a single coding/decoding (C/D) IC for MR-coding, MR-to-MMR coding, decoding, and error-checking, and a page print... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5684606 | Data communication apparatus which processes first and second communication data based on a determined relationship between the first and second communication data A facsimile apparatus which can resend an error page et seq. when a communication error occurs, wherein a sender notifies a receiver in a pre-procedure that the sender can resend an error page et seq. The receiver does not record data of an error page, or... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5677775 | Image forming apparatus provided with a device for controlling communication with a central supervisory apparatus A copying machine which detects its own condition, such as the surface potential of a photosensitive member and the toner density in a developer, and communicates with a central supervisory apparatus to transmit the detected data at a preset time or when ... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5675422 | Facsimile apparatus In a facsimile system received data is initially stored in an internal storage device, and subsequently is stored in an external storage device (hard disk drive or floppy disk drive) by a transfer process. The facsimile system stores the received data fro... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5673033 | Image communication apparatus An image communication apparatus for storing a plurality of image data to be transmitted, respectively, in correspondence with identification data of destination stations, and sequentially transmitting the stored image data to corresponding destination st... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5673118 | Communication apparatus and method with means to control recall and other communication operations A communication apparatus has a calling function and is connectable to an external information-processing terminal. In response to a communication request input from the operation unit or a communication request from the external information-processing te... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5668642 | Image data communication apparatus capable of receiving image data during power failure A facsimile apparatus has a communication unit, a memory for storing image data, and a back-up power supply for supplying power to the memory at power stoppage. The apparatus includes a detector for detecting power stoppage, and a control circuit for caus... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5644405 | Composite facsimile apparatus having function for acheiving efficient use of limited resources A signal receiving unit receives an image signal through the facsimile function. An image reading unit reads an image and outputs the corresponding image signal. An outputting unit outputs onto a recording medium either the image specified by the signal r... | 07/01/1997 |
| 5638185 | Mobile facsimile machine In a mobile facsimile machine capable of sending and receiving messages through a transmitter and receiver, respectively, a first memory is provided for memorizing the identification of a sender when receiving signals. A second memory is provided for memo... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5585854 | Data communication apparatus for multi-address transmission which directly transmits to the destination station upon detecting non-delivery status A data communication apparatus for conducting relaying multi-address transmission comprises a detector for detecting the occurrence of a non-delivery status in which data is not transmitted to a relay station or a relay destination station, and a control ... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5585941 | Facsimile machine having image memory A facsimile machine includes: a receiving system for receiving image information; an image memory for storing the image information received by the receiving system; a recording unit for recording the image information stored in the image memory on record... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5581367 | Facsimile apparatus having environmental condition sensor A facsimile apparatus, which receives image information and records the information on a paper sheet, features a device for recording received image information, a storing device for storing received information and an environmental condition detecting de... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5546451 | Call waiting cancellation device A device that links a telecommunication device (for example a data terminal, a telephone instrument, a message terminal or a video terminal) directly to a telephone line for cancellation of a call waiting tone. When an incoming call is received by the lin... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5535208 | Data transmission system and method The data transmission method employs IEEE P1394 protocol. The data header of the transmitted isochronous packet is added with a node identifier identifying the transmitter node, so that the receiver node can immediately identify the transmitter node, and ... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5528374 | Networked reproduction apparatus with security feature An electronic/copier printer apparatus includes a scanner for scanning original documents representing a copy from a first source of image information and printer input means for receiving electrical signals representing electronic information of a produc... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5481374 | Image recording apparatus Two modes for releasing a memory, a mode in which the memory is released page by page and a mode in which the memory is released block by block are provided and one of the modes is selected in accordance with the amount of received data to enhance the rel... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5475500 | Image processing apparatus having a remote mode for printing data from an external apparatus and a local mode for recording an image read by a copier An electronic apparatus includes a first switch for turning on/off a first power supply, a second switch for turning on a second power supply in response to an ON operation of the first switch, a communication unit for performing an image data communicati... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5448378 | Data transmitting apparatus and method for executing both facsimile communication and data communication without suspending a communication line A signal sending device (facsimile modem 66; step STA2) responds a call from a calling party and sends a first signal (CED signal) to the calling party. The first signal (CED signal) indicates that a non-voice terminal of the called party is connected to ... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5432616 | Data communication apparatus for notification of the receipt of a call waiting signal A date communication apparatus in which a message stored in advance is transmitted to a receiving station so as to notify the receiving station that a call-waiting signal has been received, if a call-waiting signal is received by a transmitting station du... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5416607 | Facsimile transmission control system which determines the proper response to a received instruction A facsimile transmission control system having a standard facsimile procedure which generates an output when at least one line of an image is correctly decoded and receives instructions from a transmitting facsimile. The current instruction is compared wi... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5412488 | Data processing apparatus dual-bus data processing with reduced cpu and memory requirements Disclosed is a data processing apparatus which makes it possible to perform data processing at high speed by efficiently using a plurality of buses with a small number of microprocessors. The apparatus may be realized in the form of a facsimile apparatus ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5369504 | Method and apparatus for reducing image distortion in an asynchronous input scanner A method and apparatus for reducing the distortion of image signals captured by an asynchronous scanning system during a transient period caused by temporarily disabling the scanning operation. Where in during normal operation, the asynchronous scanning s... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5369688 | Data communication apparatus with interrupt completion detecting When an interrupt completion detecting unit detects completion of an interrupt processing, a hooking unit executes hooking automatically. A busy tone detecting unit judges whether or not a station of a suspended telephone communication has been holding th... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5365349 | Image deletion for improved scanner fault recovery Scanner fault recovery in an electronic reprographic system includes monitoring the scanner for faults and enabling deletion from memory any images corresponding to documents involved in the scanner fault. Once the images have been deleted, refeed instruc... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5357347 | Communication system with inoperability detector such as "Ink Out" detector in receiving machine A communication apparatus has a recording device operable in a first recording mode for effecting a multi- or full-color recording in response to image signals received and a second recording mode for effecting monochromatic recording in accordance with i... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5357345 | Facsimile apparatus capable of successively retrieving related image data A facsimile apparatus includes a memory wherein data are stored in a sequential manner. The data are input through a network. The facsimile apparatus transmits the image data in the memory to a destination facsimile apparatus through the network in respon... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5355230 | Facsimile apparatus and facsimile system A facsimile and a facsimile system are connected to an inside bus of an ISDN (integrated services digital network). When trouble, such as no toner, jam, no paper or the like, has occurred in a recording unit of a first facsimile apparatus on the inside bu... | 10/11/1994 |
