Matsushita Graphic Communication Systems, Inc.

Takuya Kuwahara

Junichi Ogawa

Munenori Fujimoto

Kenji Shioya

Ichiro Minami

Hideyuki Hanaoka

Takashi Okiyama

Ryoji Kuribayashi

Kazuma Yoshida

Masaki Nishioka

An appearance change of an information processing device, which has a plurality of operation modes and whose appearance is changed in accordance with change of operation mode, is displayed on a display screen as graphic data representing the appearance. When a memory card is extracted from the information processing device, an operation of the information processing device is reset to avoid a run away phenomenon. Furthermore, in an inquiry and communication operation, only necessary pages of resultant inquiry information are printed out at a time after the communication line is disconnected.

Information communication system

Copying machine

Information processing system

A facsimile apparatus according to the present invention includes an operation member which is arranged horizontally and can be rotated, and a display which is arranged at the same level as the operation member and rotates a display image in accordance with the rotation of the operation member. In addition, the display displays letters, numbers, symbols and the like by rotating them electrically by 90 degrees when the operation member rotates by at least 45 degrees. And the operation member is arranged aside at the top level of the facsimile apparatus, with its circumference partially projecting from the edge of the apparatus. Furthermore, the facsimile apparatus is configured vertically, and the operation member and the display are arranged at the top level of the apparatus, between a paper feeding means and a paper ejecting means, each of which feeds or ejects paper in the direction crossing the top level of the apparatus at an obtuse angle.

Facsimile apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Kawasaki, Japan

Takuya Kuwahara