Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Yuri Usami

Misao Kataoka

Manami Yamada

Chiharu Hori

Kayoko Harada

Tokunori Kato

Yoshinari Morimoto

Toshiro Haze

Haruki Kira

A facsimile machine has a base unit and a plurality of handsets. The base unit receives e-mail data from a remote center, and the handsets receive e-mail data via the base unit. When one of the base unit and the handsets requests the remote center to transmit e-mail data, a CPU of the base unit allows only the one that makes the request to receive and store therein the e-mail data.

Communication apparatus for allowing data reception in specific master or slave unit depending on request forwarded to remote center

In a document editing device, the print width of print data that are input from a keyboard or a floppy disk is detected, and a printable range of a print mechanism and the detected print width of the print data are displayed in association with each other on a display. The print width is freely shifted on a display screen by left and right cursors, and its shift position (print start position) is stored in a memory. A printing operation for the print data is performed on the basis of information of the stored shift position. Therefore, the actual print position can be recognized on the display before the printing operation is carried out.

Document editing device and method

A document processing apparatus, such as English word processor, displays layouts of several pages of the documents on page basis in the respective rectangular layout display areas on a display together with format information including top margin, bottom margin, print line numbers in each page of the documents. When the layout display mode is selected, at least the layout of the page of the documents pointed out by a cursor when the document data has been displayed is displayed on one part of the display and the associated format information is displayed on another part of the display by, for example, line numbers.

Layout display control system for document processing apparatus

A layout display control system for a document processing apparatus wherein dimensional information of a table is displayed together with the layout of a table to allow the user to recognize specific dimensions of the outer profile of the table when the layout of the table is displayed. Ruled-line data including vertical and horizontal ruled lines are inputted to assemble a table through movement of a cursor on a display. The inputted data is stored in a memory in association with the display positions on the display. When a layout of the table is to be displayed, the data is read out of the memory and is converted to layout data to display the layout of the table. To simultaneously display the dimensional information of the table, at least width and height of an outer profile of the table is calculated based on the data stored in the memory and the dimensions of the outer profile of the table is displayed with specific numerals. Therefore, the user can readily determine whether the table can be printed on a sheet of print paper or not.

Layout display control system for displaying size of displayed table

A menu displaying apparatus includes a display which has a menu display region for displaying a plurality of main items and at least one sub item, and a message display region for displaying various messages. Normally the sub massages are displayed within the menu display region, however, if the number of the sub items is larger than the available number of the lines of the menu display region, the apparatus enables the undisplayable sub item to be displayed in the message display region.

Menu displaying apparatus for a word processor

A layout displaying apparatus has the capability to display a layout of a text in at least one layout display region of a display. The layout displaying apparatus includes a layout display control for displaying a single page of stored data in each layout display region and an extension layout display control for alternatively displaying two adjacent pages of stored data in each layout display region in the form of a double column display.

Layout displaying apparatus for a word processor

A document processing apparatus has a layout display control system including a current page identification display controller a current page changing device, and a document data display controller. A current page number indicating a current page can be changed into a new current page number in the layout display mode, and an identification which distinguishes the layout display area corresponding to the new current page number can be displayed. The displayed identification allows the operator to recognize the current page number with accuracy.

Document processing apparatus having layout display control system

A dual screen control apparatus includes a display which has the capability to display a dual screen having a first display screen and a second display screen. One of the first display screen and the second display screen is a current screen in which a cursor is displayed and the other is a non-current screen. Setting information is displayed only on the current screen so as to enable discrimination of the current screen easily.

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Yuri Usami