Hitachi, Ltd.

Hideki Muroya

Tatsuki Inuzuka

Keisuke Nakashima

Yasuyuki Kojima

Shinichi Shinoda

Shogo Matsumoto

Hisashi Matsumoto

Yasunori Iwafuji

Tadashi Tamaoki

Toru Takei

Hiroshi Kawamura

Katsubumi Ouchi

Hideo Nakazawa

Takeshi Kobayashi

Yoshitaka Iwata

Eizou Ebisui

Tomoe Sasayama

Naoki Kinoshita

Norikazu Takahashi

Atuhiko Urusihara

Kenji Yokoi

Shingo Oguma

Toraichi Sirakawa

Kyoichi Nomura

A facsimile apparatus has a transparent plate on which a document may be located. The document is then scanned by a scanner which includes electronic solid state light generation means e.g. LEDs which illuminate the document, with the light reflected from the document being detected by a detector. An electronic signal corresponding to an image of the document may then be transmitted to a remote location. Alternately, the facsimile apparatus may be used to copy the document. Cut paper sheets are withdrawn from storage and an image printed thereon by a heat transfer system in which a film of ink is selectively heated. Paper on which an image has been printed is then received on the upper surface of the storage. The facsimile apparatus may also have a document transporter for moving a document past the scanner with the scanner fixed.

Facsimile apparatus and method for processing a fixed document

A broadcasting facsimile transceiver has a transmission controller which, in the broadcasting mode, inhibits broadcasting communications during a predetermined interval of time ranging from the completion of transmission to a destination to the commencement of transmission to the succeeding destination. The transceiver also includes a scanning unit for reading a document and delivering video data, a data compression unit for compressing the video data, a memory unit for storing compressed video data from said data compression unit, a reproduction unit for reading the compressed video data stored in said memory unit, a MODEM for transmitting the video data to a communication line. The transmission controller controls the transceiver such that when reading the document, the video data read out of the scanning unit is stored in the memory unit through the data compression unit and in the broadcasting communication mode, the video data from the data reproduction unit is transmitted to the communication line through the MODEM. During a predetermined interval of time between the termination of transmission to a first destination and the commencement of transmission to a second destination, the transmission of transmission video data is inhibited to establish a reception wait state in the transceiver.

Broadcasting communication apparatus

A facsimile transceiver equipped with a broadcasting feature wherein a transmission data is temporarily stored in a memory and thereafter the data is successively transmitted to a plurality of destinations. The facsimile transceiver includes a unit for expanding and reproducing once compressed and stored transmission data, a switch unit provided at the input side of a scanning resolution converter for selecting either the data from the expansion and reproduction unit or the transmission data from a scanner. In case broadcast is conducted using the facsimile transceiver, the expanded and reproduced transmission data is inputted to the scanning resolution converter to transmit it using the same method as of one-to-one communication. Thus, it is possible to use any type of a facsimile transceiver as a broadcasting reception terminal, and to broadcast to a broadcasting reception terminal in the same mode as of one-to-one communication.

Facsimile transceiver equipped with broadcasting feature

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Ebina, Japan

Hideki Muroya