Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yasuhide Ueno

Takashi Imai

Atsushi Ikeda

Nobuyuki Hirai

Takeshi Toyama

Koji Okamura

Masahiro Sakamoto

Takeshi Ono

Tsunehiro Watanabe

Sadasuke Kurahayashi

Tsuneo Negi

Shigeo Miura

Naoya Watanabe

Hiroshi Nobuta

Masatomo Takahashi

Naoki Sugawara

Muneki Nakao

Susumu Matsuzaki

Motoaki Yoshino

Masahiro Suzuki

Teruyuki Nishii

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Hisao Terajima

Mamoru Osada

Junnosuke Kataoka

Atsushi Ohtani

Masashi Kimura

Tomoyuki Nagata

Taketo Takahashi

Tsutomu Yamaji

Misayo Fujioka

Satoshi Harauchi

A message sequence generation method and a message sequence generation device, by which a message sequence with an error handling added thereto can be efficiently generated. The method includes setting an action for a specific phenomenon in the phenomenon causal relationship model, associating each element included in the message sequence information with each phenomenon to generate element/phenomenon correspondence information, storing the element/phenomenon correspondence information into a memory device, and acquiring the action set for the phenomenon corresponding to each element and the action set for another phenomenon caused by the phenomenon, from the element/phenomenon correspondence information, and adding the actions to the element as an error handling.

Message sequence generation method and message sequence generation device

An image sensing apparatus senses an image by illuminating a document by a light source including three light emitting diodes which emit light of red, green, and blue so that the light reflected from the document is incident on a sensor array which in turn generates an electric signal corresponding to the incident light, wherein a predetermined light emitting diode is also turned on during a period in which no image sensing operation is performed thereby making it possible to stabilize the intensity of light illuminating an image. Thus, the invention provides a high-performance and small-sized image sensing apparatus at a low cost.

Image sensing apparatus and method

Demand for an inexpensive color facsimile apparatus is expected not in the business field but in home use, and a product which is easy to operate and use is required in consideration of home use. Such color facsimile apparatus, i.e., an image communication apparatus has a communication means for communicating with a partner terminal via a line, a DRAM ( ) for storing image information received by the communication means, a management means for managing the image information stored in the DRAM ( ), decoding means for decoding the image information stored in the DRAM ( ) into image data to be recorded on a recording paper sheet, and a recording unit ( ) for recording a visible image on a recording paper sheet on the basis of the decoded image data using a selected attached ink cartridge. A CPU ( ) of the image communication apparatus counts C indicating the number of non-recorded color images stored in the DRAM ( ), M indicating the number of non-recorded monochrome images, C indicating the number of recorded color images, and M indicating the number of recorded monochrome images. When a value C &plus;M is not zero, the CPU displays a message indicating that a new image is stored in the DRAM ( ) using a first display unit on a control panel ( ). When the value C is not zero, the CPU displays a message indicating that a new image is stored in the DRAM ( ) using a second display unit independent from the first display unit.

Image communication apparatus and its control method

Whether a call is placed after waiting for confirmation operation or without waiting for confirmation operation upon completion of speech recognition is selected. Data is initialized in the standby state, and upon instruction of speech recognition, speech recognition is done. The speech recognition result is displayed, and when a speech recognition key is operated without any confirmation operation, speech recognition is redone without setting the standby state.

Apparatus for making outgoing call

An image communication apparatus and a communication controlling method thereon, wherein in the case where image data having an attribute not specified by the ITU-T recommendation is transmitted, regardless of an attribute of image data to be transmitted, a reception command including a first image attribute specified by the ITU-T recommendation are sent out, and information including a second image attribute of image data to be transmitted is sent out in a phase transmitting the image data after the reception command is sent out. And when an image is transmitted with the second image attribute, a transmission takes place with a binary file transfer communication procedure following a first communication procedure specified by the ITU-T recommendation so that image data having an image attribute not standardized by the ITU-T recommendation can be transmitted.

Image communication apparatus and communication control method thereof

An apparatus includes a communication unit for receiving image data and an external Centronics connector for inputting character code data from an external device. A facsimile MPU is provided for setting an image recording parameter based on the image data and a character recording parameter based on the character code data. A printing head is provided for recording an image based on the image data in accordance with the image recording parameter and a character based on the character code data in accordance with the character recording parameter.

Image recording apparatus and method therefor

This invention has as its object to provide an image processing apparatus which has a printer unit and a data processing unit, and allows an external information processing terminal to freely operate the printer unit and the data processing unit. More specifically, the image processing apparatus has a print emulation command set for controlling the printer unit from the external information processing terminal, and a command set for controlling the data processing unit from the external information processing terminal. The print emulation command set is used when the printer unit is controlled, and the designated command set is used when the data processing unit is controlled.

Image processing apparatus capable of connecting external information processing terminal, and including printer unit and data processing unit

A facsimile apparatus that can be conveniently controlled from an external information processing terminal is disclosed. The facsimile apparatus comprises a line controller for effecting transmission and reception of image data through a telephone line, an interface for effecting transmission and reception of information with an information processing terminal, a first instruction accepting unit for accepting an instruction for transmission or reception from the information processing terminal, an operation panel for entering a manual instruction, a second instruction accepting unit for accepting the instruction for transmission or reception from the operation panel, a memory for storing communication management information relating to image communication, and a controller for at least controlling the first instruction accepting unit, the second instruction accepting unit and the memory, wherein the controller is adapted to separately store the instruction accepted by the first instruction accepting unit and that accepted by the second instruction accepting unit in the memory.

Image communication apparatus for selectively controlling output of communication management information

Image processing apparatus capable of connecting external information

An inexpensive image communication apparatus allows an external information processing terminal to be connected thereto, and uses an interface capable of high-speed data transfer for communication with the PC. The image communication apparatus receives an instruction from the external information processing terminal through an interface control unit in a state in which reception can be performed. When an instruction from the information processing terminal is received while communication is preformed by a communication unit and an instruction from an operation panel is received, the image communication apparatus outputs information indicating that the instruction cannot be executed, in a state in which the interface control unit can perform transmission.

Image processing apparatus for processing image data in response to

An image recording apparatus comprises a FAX unit and a printer unit. The printer unit has an ink-jet printing head, and records image data received by the FAX unit or image data read by an original sheet reader in a copy mode. A sensor constituted by an actuator and a photointerrupter for detecting whether an original sheet is set is arranged in the original sheet reader. In a stand-up state of the housing of the apparatus, the actuator is removed from the photointerrupter, and this sensor is set in the same state as in the original presence state. Even if a power supply is turned on in this state, a recovery operation which is normally executed is inhibited. With this operation, contamination and occurrence of trouble caused by ink leakage can be prevented.

Image recording apparatus

An image recording apparatus includes a facsimile (FAX) unit and a printer unit. The printer unit has an ink-jet printing head, and records an image in accordance with image data received by the FAX unit. In this apparatus, when the power supply is turned on, the printer unit performs a hard power-ON initialization process to initialize a watchdog timer, registers, the work area of a RAM, and the like, and also initializes the RAM to erase data left in buffers. Thereafter, the printer unit transfers to a standby state. When a print request or a printer setting request is generated in the standby state, a soft power supply initialization process is executed to perform checking of the RAM, initialization of the work area, and initialization of carriage control and paper feed control, and the like. In the standby state, LEDs and the like of the printer unit are kept OFF. An operation error of the printer unit caused by remaining data can be prevented, and reliability of the apparatus can be improved. In addition, unnecessary power consumption can be prevented.

Image recording apparatus with reliable, efficient and power-saving

An apparatus stores image data sent as a facsimile signal through a line in an image memory (103) and records the image data on a recording medium upon reducing the data. The apparatus further includes an interface for connection with an external information processing unit such as a personal computer so that image data input from the external information processing unit through the interface can be stored in the image memory (103) and recorded on a recording medium. Designation of image data in the image memory (103) is allowed from the external information processing unit. The designated image data is retained after a recording operation. In addition, a reducing/recording operation is inhibited when the designated image data is to be recorded.

A data communication apparatus for sending communication protocol signals and data has a low speed modem and a high speed modem. The protocol signal can be communicated by the high speed modem, and data communication can be started by the high speed modem without communication of a protocol signal by the low speed modem after communication of the protocol signals by the high speed modem. Other aspects of the data communication apparatus include the performance of ECM communication, the detection and storage of a communication result of a defined type to enable modification of future operations based on the stored result and the provision of first and second communication modes using recommended and not recommended communication protocols. The data communication apparatus can also communicate the protocol signal as data of a type otherwise communicated.

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Yasuhide Ueno