Fujitsu Corporation

Naomasa Nishimura

Makoto Hasegawa

Takehiko Fujiyama

Masashi Murakumo

Yasuhiro Kunimoto

Video data is coded at either a minimum transfer rate or maximum transfer rate and stored in a storage unit as a video reply message. In a case where the video data has been coded at the minimum transfer rate and stored, the video reply message is transmitted upon being multiplexed with an audio reply message if the actual transfer rate agrees with the minimum transfer rate. If the two transfer rates are different, invalid bits conforming to the difference between the rates are generated and the invalid bits, the audio reply message and the video reply message are multiplexed and transmitted. In a case where the video data has been coded at the maximum transfer rate and stored, on the other hand, the video reply message is decoded when an incoming call arrives, the video data thus obtained is coded based upon the actual transfer rate, and the video reply message obtained by coding is multiplexed with the audio reply message and transmitted.

Image communication apparatus having automatic answering and recording

In a video signal synthesizing system for synthesizing at least one inner video signal such as an analog video signal, digital image data, and encoded, compressed image data and so on from a system's own apparatus and an external analog video signal such as a character signal from an external apparatus; the inner video signal is converted into a digital video signal and the synchronous signal thereof is detected; the inner digital video signal is synthesized in digital form if a plurality of the inner video signal exists and stored in a memory; the level of the external analog video signal and the synchronous signal thereof are adjusted to be equal to the level of the inner video signal and the synchronous signal thereof, and then the adjusted external video signal and the inner video signal transmitted from the memory and converted to the analog signal are synthesized by the analog video signals adding means to be displayed by the display.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Naomasa Nishimura