Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Attribute control
Reexamination Certificate
1996-08-14
2001-08-21
Nguyen, Madeleine (Department: 2622)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Attribute control
C358S434000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06278529
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a color communication apparatus and a color communication method which communicate color image data, and a storage medium which stores the color communication method.
2. Related Background Art
Conventionally, it has been known to use a color communication apparatus which has a color scanner and a color printer to perform a communication with a partner's device. In the apparatus, an original to be transmitted is read as a color image by the color scanner, and obtained color image data is stored in a memory. Then, if the partner's device has a color communication function, the apparatus transmits the color image data. On the other hand, if the partner's device does not have the color communication function, the apparatus converts the color image data into monochrome (black-and-white) image data and then transmits the converted monochrome image data.
However, in an above conventional communication procedure, in a case where the partner's device cannot receive the color image data, it must be performed a wasteful image process must be performed in which a large amount of color image data is first stored in the memory and the stored data is then transmitted.
Further, in the above conventional procedure, if a transmission instruction in a color transmission mode is performed to transmit the original as the color image but the original is automatically transmitted as a monochrome image because of some reason such as, e.g., the partner's device cannot perform a color communication, an operator will erroneously believe that the original was transmitted as the color image. Therefore, the original which is intended to be transmitted by the operator cannot always be transmitted.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to entirely or individually solve the above conventional problems.
Another object of the present invention is to eliminate, in a case where an original is intended to be transmitted as a color image, a wasteful image data process if a partner's device cannot receive the color image due to some problem.
In order to achieve the above objects, according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there can be provided a color communication apparatus capable of transmitting color image data and monochrome image data to the partner's device, comprising:
designation means for designating either one of a first mode for transmitting an original as a color image and a second mode for transmitting the original as a monochrome (black/white) image;
discrimination means for discriminating whether or not the partner's device can receive the color image data;
image data generation means for selectively performing one of two operations on the basis of the mode designated by the designation means and a discrimination result by the discrimination means, one operation being to read the original as the color image to generate the color image data, and the other operation being to read the original as the monochrome image to generate the monochrome image data; and
transmission means for transmitting the image data generated by the data generation means to the partner's device.
Still another object of the present invention is that, in a case where an original is transmitted as a color image, even if such a color original must be transmitted as a monochrome (black/white) image because of some reason at a partner's device side, an operator can certainly know a transmission result.
In order to achieve the above object, according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there can be provided a color communication apparatus capable of transmitting color image data and monochrome image data to a partner's device, comprising:
designation means for designating either one of a first mode for transmitting the original as a color image and a second mode for transmitting the original as the monochrome image;
discrimination means for discriminating whether or not the partner's device can receive the color image data;
generation means for generating the color image data or the monochrome image data in accordance with the mode designated by the designation means and a discrimination result by the discrimination means;
transmission means for transmitting the color image data or the monochrome image data generated by the generation means; and
display means for displaying that the original is transmitted as the monochrome image, in a case where the transmission means transmits the original as the monochrome image data even though the first mode has been designated by the designation means.
Still another object of the present invention is to eliminate, in a case where a color original is intended to be transmitted as a color image, an operation in which the original to be transmitted within one communication is read plural times for each page and then transmitted, even if a partner's device does not have a color reception function.
In order to achieve the above object, according to one preferred embodiment of the present invention, there can be provided a color communication apparatus capable of transmitting color image data and monochrome (black/white) image data to the partner's device, comprising:
designation means for designating, for each page, either one of a first mode for transmitting the original as the color image and a second mode for transmitting the original as a monochrome image;
discrimination means for discriminating whether or not the partner's device can receive the color image data;
image data generation means for selectively performing one of two operations on the basis of the mode designated by the designation means and a discrimination result by the discrimination means, one operation being to read the original as the color image to generate the color image data, and the other operation being to read the original as the monochrome image to generate the monochrome image data; and
transmission means for transmitting the image data generated by the image data generation means to the partner's device.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a color communication apparatus and a color communication method which have a new function, and a storage medium which stores the color communication method.
The above and other objects of the present invention will be apparent from the following embodiments and the attached drawings.
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Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Fitzpatrick ,Cella, Harper & Scinto
Nguyen Madeleine
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