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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1990
Hideo Muramatsu, Osaka, JP;
Munehiro Nakatani, Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Hamano, Osaka, JP;
Shigenobu Fukushima, Osaka, JP;
Toshio Tsuboi, Osaka, JP;
Kanako Hamano, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kurahashi, Osaka, JP;
Masanori Yamamoto, Osaka, JP;
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A facsimile device, which receives picture data of an original document, which is constituted by a plurality of data lines, through a telephone line and records the received picture data onto a record sheet, has a counting device for counting the number of the received data lines, an operation device for comparing the number of the data lines with a predetermined value and evaluating the number of data lines exceeding the predetermined value as an excess number, a determination device for determining whether each of the received data lines is valid or invalid picture data, a data processing device for removing the data lines that are invalid picture data, the number of which corresponds to the excess number, out of the received data lines in accordance with the determination by the determination device, and a recording device for recording the remaining received data lines processed by the data processing device onto the record sheet. A processing method is also disclosed and claimed.