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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1994
Shigeru Koizumi, Urawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Shimomaruko, JP;
Abstract
An image communication apparatus enhances the likelihood of successful communication with a destination station without conflict with business of other users who use the same apparatus. In the image transmission, existence of a connection with the destination station is determined after the dialing of the destination station, and if the connection fails, redialing is performed. A remaining capacity of a memory for image to be transmitted is determined, and the redialing is repeated without regard to a preset limit on the number of times of redialing, if the remaining memory capacity is sufficiently large, while redialing is performed only the preset number of times if the remaining memory capacity is not sufficiently large.