Facsimile apparatus having control means for recording a prescribed page which has not been completely recorded when a trouble detected by detecting means is solved

• US 5,854,692 A
• Filed: 10/10/1995
• Issued: 12/29/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Minolta Corporation Limited (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nakatani, Munehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Thomas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Grant, II, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US08/541,285
• Time in Patent Office: 1,176 Days
• Field of Search: 358/468, 358/437, 358/443, 358/441, 358/405, 358/406, 358/498, 358/434, 358/436, 358/444, 358/494, 358/401
• US Class Current: 358/468
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32363 at the transmitter or at the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32379 Functions of a still picture terminal memory associated with reception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32384 Storage subsequent to an attempted output at the receiver, e.g. in case of printer malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32609 Fault detection or counter-measures, e.g. original mis-positioned, shortage of paper
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32635 of reproducing apparatus or receiver, e.g. out of paper
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32646 Counter-measures inhibiting an operation H04N1/00925, interrupting an operation H04N1/00915
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32657 locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3287 Storage of at least one complete document page or image frame

Abstract

When a jam occurs in outputting an image to a printer in a facsimile apparatus, it is displayed that the printer is in a state of trouble. If the printer trouble is not solved in a prescribed time period, that one group of original being printed is stored in a compressed data memory (not shown) as a re-recording file. When the trouble is solved, the data of that one group of original stored in the re-recording file is output to the printer. As a result, a facsimile apparatus capable of clarifying the destination of the printed received image data after an interruption can be provided.

Claims

1. A facsimile apparatus, comprising:

storage means for storing received image data;

recording means for extracting said image data stored in said storage means sequentially from a first page on a page-by-page basis and for recording the image data on recording paper in a recording operation;

detection means for detecting a trouble occurrence during the recording operation of said recording means; and

control means for controlling said recording means to again record a prescribed page which has already been recorded and to record one or more pages of the image data stored in said storage means which has not been completely recorded, when a trouble detected by said detection means is solved.

2. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein

said control means controls said recording means to extract the image data stored in said storage means sequentially from the first page on a page-by-page basis and record the extracted image data on said recording paper.

3. An apparatus as recited in claim 2, wherein

said control means includes a timer for counting a prescribed time period from the trouble occurrence detected by said detection means and controls said recording means to resume recording of the image data from the page hit with said trouble, when said trouble is solved before counting of said prescribed time period by the timer is completed.

4. An apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein

said control means controls said recording means to again record the first page and to record pages which have not been yet recorded of the image data stored in said storage means.

5. An apparatus as recited in claim 4, wherein

said control means includes a timer for counting a prescribed time period from the trouble occurrence detected by said detection means and controls said storage means to erase the image data of pages which have been recorded by said recording means except for said first page after the counting of said prescribed time period by said timer is completed.

6. An apparatus as recited in claim 5, wherein

said control means controls said recording means to resume recording from the page hit with said troubles when the trouble detected by said detection means is solved before the counting of said prescribed time period by said timer is completed.

7. An apparatus as recited in claim 4, further comprising:

compression/expansion means for expanding received image data in a compressed state, for compressing the image data before being stored in said storage means and for expanding the image data which said recording means extracts from said storage means for recording.

8. An apparatus as recited in claim 4, wherein

said first page includes user destination information for the received image data.

9. A facsimile apparatus comprising:

storage means for storing received image data;

recording means for extracting said image data stored in said storage means sequentially from a first original page on a page-by-page basis and for recording the extracted image data on recording paper in a recording operation;

detection means for detecting a trouble occurrence during the recording operation of said recording means; and

control means for controlling said storage means to erase the image data of pages which have already been recorded by said recording means except for said first original page when said detection means detects a trouble, and for controlling said recording means to record the image data stored in said storage means when the detected trouble is solved.

10. An apparatus as recited in claim 9, wherein

said control means includes a timer for counting a prescribed time period from the trouble occurrence detected by said detection means and controls said storage means to erase the image data of pages which have been recorded by said recording means except for said first page after the counting of said prescribed time period by the timer is completed.

11. An apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein

said control means controls said recording means to resume recording from the page hit with said trouble, when the trouble detected by said detection means is solved before the counting of said prescribed time period by said timer is completed.

12. An apparatus as recited in claim 11, further comprising:

compression/expansion means for expanding received image data in a compressed state, for compressing the image data before being stored said in storage means, and expanding the image data extracted from said storage means for recording by said recording means.

13. An apparatus as recited in claim 9, wherein

said first page includes user destination information for the received image data.

14. A facsimile apparatus, comprising:

storage means for storing received image data;

recording means for extracting said image data stored in said storage means on a page-by-page basis and for recording the extracted image data on recording paper in a recording operation;

detection means for detecting a trouble occurrence during the recording operation of said recording means; and

control means for controlling said storage means to store a portion of the image data subject to a recording operation in said storage means as image data to be recorded later only when said detection means detects a trouble occurrence and for controlling said recording means to later record the image data to be recorded later stored in said storage means when the detected trouble is solved.

15. An apparatus as recited in claim 14, wherein

said control means stores the image data of all the pages in said storage means as image data to be recorded later.

16. An apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein

said control means controls said recording means to record the image data of all the pages stored in said storage means when the detected trouble is solved.

17. An apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein

said control means controls said recording means to record the image data of pages which have not been recorded and at least one prescribed page, which was previously recorded, stored in said storage means when the detected trouble is solved.

18. An apparatus as recited in claim 17, wherein

the at least one prescribed page is a first page of said image data.

19. An apparatus as recited in claim 18, wherein

said first page includes user destination information for the received image data.

20. An apparatus as recited in claim 14, wherein

said control means stores the image data of pages which have not been recorded and the image data of a least one prescribed page which has previously been recorded as image data to be recorded later in said storage means.

21. An apparatus as recited in claim 20, wherein said control means controls said recording means to record all the image data stored in said storage means when the detected trouble is solved.

22. An apparatus as recited in claim 20, wherein the at least one prescribed page of said image data is the first page of said image data.

23. An apparatus as recited in claim 20, wherein the at least one prescribed page of said image data includes user destination information.