Image transmitting apparatus and image receiving apparatus

• US 7,050,185 B1
• Filed: 06/30/1999
• Issued: 05/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Communications Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Communications Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Sawada, Toshihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Coles, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Safaipour, Houshang
• Application Number:
  US09/343,728
• Time in Patent Office: 2,519 Days
• Field of Search: 358/407, 358/434, 358/442, 358/468, 358/400, 358/436, 358/1.15
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00214 details of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00217 only involving computer data transmission protocols, e.g. SMTP, WAP or HTTP communication protocol aspects and techniques in packet data networks H04L69/00; network-specific arrangements or communication protocols supporting networked applications H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/324 intermediate the transmitter and receiver terminals, e.g. at an exchange
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32432 in a particular memory file for retrieval by the user, e.g. in a facsimile mailbox
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0018 via a non-image communication channel, e.g. via a computer network
• 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 2201/3207 of an address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3208 of an e-mail or network address
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3276 of a customised additional information profile, e.g. a profile specific to a user ID

Abstract

IFAX reads an original using a scanner in accordance with a transmitting instruction by an operator. Next, IFAX generates a menu screen in an HTML, image data filed by unit of page is registered to a WWW server together with a generated HTML document. IFAX decides the WWW server based on a recipient'"'"'s mail address. Next, IFAX sends notification of URL of a WWW server to a recipient to which image data should be transmitted. The recipient accesses to the WWW server based on URL, fetches image data by unit of page, and instructs printing selectively.

Claims

1. An image data transmitting apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to convert image data into a predetermined plurality of file formats, the data of each file format including all of the image data;

a memory configured to store an e-mail address of a recipient and an address of a server corresponding to the e-mail address of the recipient;

a transmitter configured to determine the server corresponding to the recipient when the e-mail address of the recipient is input, to transmit to said server the data in each of the predetermined plurality of file formats and to transmit to the recipient, by e-mail, the address of the server in which the data in the predetermined plurality of file formats corresponding to the image data is stored, whereby the recipient can access the server by using said address and select, from the server, image data that is stored in a file format corresponding to the capability of the recipient.

2. The image transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality type of file formats comprise a JPEG file, a tiff file or a bit map file.

3. The image transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a file converter coverts image data in units of a page.

8. The image data transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein all of the file formats are receivable by a single type of receiving apparatus.

9. The image data transmitting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein converted image data transmitted to the server can be accessed by the recipient by utilizing the transmitted address of the server.

4. An image receiving apparatus connected to an image transmitting apparatus through a network including at least one server, the server configured to store image data to be received in a predetermined plurality of file formats, data of each file format including all of the of the image data, the image receiving apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive an e-mail with an address of a server in which the image data to be received is stored;

an extractor configured to access the server by using said address, to select image data that is stored in a file format corresponding to the capability of the image receiving apparatus, and to extract the image data of said selected file format from said server.

5. The image receiving apparatus according to claim 4, wherein image data is converted in units of a page and can be extracted from the server in units of a page.

6. An image transmitting method using a memory configured to store an e-mail address of a recipient and an address of a server corresponding to the e-mail address of the recipient, the method comprising:

converting image data into data in a predetermined plurality of file formats, the data of each file format including all of image data;

determining the server corresponding to the recipient when an e-mail address of the recipient is input;

transmitting to the server the data in each of the predetermined plurality of file formats and transmitting to said recipient, by e-mail, the address of the server in which the data in the predetermined plurality of file formats corresponding to the image data is stored, whereby the recipient can access the server by using the address and select, from the server, image data that is stored in a file format corresponding to the capability of the recipient.

7. An image receiving method for receiving image data through a network including at least one server, the server configured to store image data to be received by an image receiving apparatus in a predetermined plurality of file formats, the method comprising:

receiving an e-mail with an address of a server in which the image data to be received is stored;

accessing the server by using the address;

selecting image data that is stored in a file format corresponding to the capability of the image receiving apparatus;

extracting the image data of the selected file format from the server.