Image communicating method, facsimile type electronic mail apparatus and facsimile apparatus

• US 6,937,359 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2002
• Issued: 08/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Communications Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Communications Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Toyoda, Kiyoshi, Bando, Tatsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Pokrzywa, Joseph R.
• Application Number:
  US10/246,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20030067628A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,076 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.2, 358/1.15, 358/1.9, 358/402, 358/403, 358/407, 358/434, 358/437, 358/438, 358/442, 358/468, 379/100.01, 379/100.08, 379/100.09, 379/100.13
• US Class Current: 358/1.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00209 Transmitting or receiving image data, e.g. facsimile data, via a computer, e.g. using e-mail, a computer network, the internet, I-fax
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32128 attached to the image data, e.g. file header, transmitted message header, information on the same page or in the same computer file as the image for information embedded in the image H04N1/32144
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32609 Fault detection or counter-measures, e.g. original mis-positioned, shortage of paper
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32641 of transmission or transmitted data, e.g. interruption or wrong number of pages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32662 remotely, e.g. to the transmitter from the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/33315 reading or reproducing mode only, e.g. sheet size, resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/33369 Storage of mode or retrieval of prestored mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3935 with modification of image resolution, i.e. determining the values of picture elements at new relative positions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0015 Control of image communication with the connected apparatus, e.g. signalling capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0017 Notifying a communication result
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0067 Converting to still picture data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0068 Converting from still picture data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0086 Image transceiver H04N2201/0093 and H04N2201/0094 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0093 Facsimile machine H04N2201/0094 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3209 of a telephone number
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/33321 Image or page size, e.g. A3, A4

Abstract

A particular image written in a particular paper of a particular paper size is scanned by a scanner to produce image data, a format of the image data is changed to a mail format to change the image data to mail data, the particular paper size is added to the mail data, and the mail data is transmitted from a transmitting side to a receiving side through a LAN by an electronic mail. In the receiving side, the mail data is changed to reproduced image data, and it is judged whether or not the particular paper size of the particular paper is larger than a prescribed paper size treatable on the receiving side. In cases where the particular paper size is larger than the prescribed paper size, the reproduced image data is thinned out to produce adjusted image data, and a downsized image is printed on a prescribed paper of the prescribed paper size according to the adjusted image data. Accordingly, even though an image written in a paper of a paper size not treatable on the receiving side is transmitted from the transmitting side to the receiving side, because the image is downsized, the image can be reproduced on the receiving side.

Claims

1. A recording apparatus comprising:

a receiver that receives e-mail data from a sender via a computer network, the received e-mail data including a header and text codes, the text codes being converted from image data by the sender;

a converter that converts the e-mail data into image data, the image data including binary data representing at least one scanned document and paper size information indicating a paper size of the at least one scanned document, the paper size information being set for each document scanned by the sender;

a data downsizer that downsizes the binary data of the converted image data in accordance with the paper size information; and

a printer that prints the downsized binary data.

2. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a determiner that determines whether or not the binary data is printable by said printer in accordance with the paper size information;

wherein said data downsizer downsizes the binary data when said determiner determines that the binary data is not printable, and said printer prints the image data without downsizing when said determiner determines that the binary data is printable.

3. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data includes resolution information of the scanned document.

4. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the paper size information is in an attribute area attached to the binary data of each page.

5. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, the received e-mail data including paper size data.

6. A method for printing data transmitted by a sender, using a recording apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving e-mail data from sender via a computer network, the received e-mail data including a header and text codes, the text codes being converted from image data by the sender;

converting the e-mail data into image data, the image data including binary data representing at least one scanned document and paper size information indicating a paper size of the at least one scanned document, the paper size information being set for each document scanned by the sender;

downsizing the binary data of the converted image data in accordance with the paper size information; and

printing the downsized binary data.

7. The method for printing according to claim 6, further comprising determining whether or not the binary data is printable in accordance with the paper size information, and

downsizing the binary data when the determining determines that the binary data is not printable and printing the data without downsizing when the determining determines that the binary data is printable.

8. The method for printing according to claim 6, wherein the paper size information is in an attribute area attached to the binary data of each page.

9. The method for printing according to claim 6, the receiving of e-mail data comprising receiving e-mail data including paper size information.

10. A method for printing an image from data transmitted by a sender, using a printer, the method comprising:

receiving e-mail data from a sender via a computer network, the received e-mail data including a header and text codes, the text codes being converted from image data by the sender

converting the e-mail data into image data, the image data including binary data representing at least one scanned document and paper size information indicating a paper size of the scanned document, the paper size information being set for each document scanned by the sender;

determining whether or not the binary data of the converted image is printable by the printer in accordance with the paper size information;

downsizing the binary data when the determining determines that the binary data is not printable, and printing the downsized binary data; and

printing the binary data without downsizing when the determining determines that the binary data is printable.

11. The method for printing according to claim 10, wherein the paper size information is in an attribute area attached to the binary data of each page.

12. The method for printing according to claim 10, the receiving of e-mail data comprising receiving e-mail data including paper size information.