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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1992
Masato Nakajima, Yokohama, JP;
Osamu Suzuki, Atsugi, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication apparatus which can carry out a facsimile communication with a calling station and a speech communication with the calling station. The communication apparatus includes, a monitoring block for monitoring received signals, a first determining block for determining, based on a result obtained by the monitoring block, whether or not a first signal transmitted from the calling station is received, a transmission block for transmitting a second signal to the calling station, a first control block for activating the transmission block in a case where the first determining block determines that the first signal is not received within a first time after the communication apparatus becomes capable of communicating to the calling station, a ringing unit for outputting a ringing tone, a second control block for activating the ringing unit when a second time elapses from a time at which the transmission block starts to transmit the second signal, and a third control block for performing the facsimile communication when the first determining block determines that the first signal is received.