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Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Nobuyuki Tonegawa, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/18 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 51/066 (2013.01); H04N 1/00326 (2013.01); H04N 1/00331 (2013.01); H04N 1/00209 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0068 (2013.01);
Abstract

This invention has as its object to avoid occurrence of garble even when an e-mail message to be created includes text information described in character codes of different kinds of language. To achieve this object, a communication apparatus according to this invention includes an input unit which inputs image information, a recognition unit which extracts text information included in the image information input by the input unit, and recognizing a type of character code of the extracted text information, an embedding unit which embeds the extracted text information in a text of e-mail using character codes of the type recognized by the recognition unit, and describing the recognized type () of character code and an identifier () indicating a description range of the extracted text information in the text of e-mail, and a sending unit which sends e-mail data embedded by the embedding unit.


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