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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tetsuya Goto, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha TEC, Shizuoka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358406 ; 358400 ; 358437 ; 358504 ;
Abstract
A facsimile apparatus generating a monitor report. The facsimile apparatus stores kinds of causes of communication troubles and codes corresponding to the kinds of causes of the communication troubles. A control circuit recognizes an occurrence of the communication troubles during facsimile communication, self-diagnoses the cause of the occurrence of the communication troubles, and searches for a corresponding code. A monitor list then includes the cause of the occurrence of the communication troubles in accordance with communication trouble information if the communication trouble information has been stored.