U.S. patent number RE37,272 [Application Number 09/009,859] was granted by the patent office on 2001-07-10 for image communication apparatus having a function for dividing and outputting an image.
This patent grant is currently assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Invention is credited to Hiroshi Nobuta, Hiroshi Ochi, Nobuji Tetsutani, Tetsuji Yamamoto.
United States Patent |
RE37,272 |
Ochi , et al. |
July 10, 2001 |
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Image communication apparatus having a function for dividing and
outputting an image
Abstract
There is provided an information processing apparatus of a
code-compressed image information for use in a facsimile apparatus
or an electronic file. This apparatus comprises: an image memory to
store the coded image data; a printer to print the image data; a
counter to read out the data from the memory and to count the
number of lines of the image data; and a controller to control the
printer so as to allow the image data to be divided and printed in
response to the count value of the counter. The size data of the
image data is compared with the count value and when they coincide,
the controller controls the printer. If the image data exceeds the
line number of one standard scale recording sheet, the printer is
controlled so as to divide and record the image data on two or more
recording cut sheets.
Inventors: |
Ochi; Hiroshi (Yokosuka,
JP), Tetsutani; Nobuji (Yokosuka, JP),
Yamamoto; Tetsuji (Yokosuka, JP), Nobuta; Hiroshi
(Yokosuka, JP) |
Assignee: |
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph
Corporation (Tokyo, JP)
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP)
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Family
ID: |
15220272 |
Appl.
No.: |
09/009,859 |
Filed: |
January 21, 1998 |
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Application
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Reissue of: |
749421 |
Jun 27, 1985 |
04805135 |
Feb 14, 1989 |
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Foreign Application Priority Data
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Jul 4, 1984 [JP] |
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59-138367 |
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Current U.S.
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358/1.15;
358/1.18 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G06K
15/00 (20130101); H04N 1/2307 (20130101); H04N
1/2323 (20130101); H04N 1/233 (20130101); H04N
1/2369 (20130101); H04N 1/3875 (20130101); H04N
2201/0414 (20130101) |
Current International
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H04N
1/387 (20060101); H04N 1/23 (20060101); H04N
001/04 (); G06F 003/09 () |
Field of
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;395/101,114,116,117
;358/1.1,1.2,1.15,1.16,1.18,400,401,296,426 |
References Cited
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Primary Examiner: Heckler; Thomas M.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper,
Scinto
Parent Case Text
.Iadd.This application is a reissue of U.S. Pat. No. 4,805,135,
which issued on Feb. 14, 1989 from U.S. application Ser. No.
749,421, filed Jun. 27, 1985. .Iaddend.
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
transmitting/receiving means for transmitting and receiving
compressed image information;
memory means for storing receiving compressed image
information;
expanding means for expanding the compressed image information
stored in said memory means;
image forming means for forming an image on a sheet on the basis of
image information expanded by said expanding means;
deciding means for deciding whether or not image information
corresponding to a single page is able to be image-formed on a
single sheet; and
control means for controlling information output such that, in a
case where said deciding means has decided that the image
information corresponding to said single page cannot be
image-formed on a single sheet, the image information corresponding
to the single page is divided and is image-formed on a plurality of
sheets.Iadd.,
wherein, in said case, said control means controls the information
output such that a portion of the image information which is
image-formed on one sheet is again image-formed on a subsequent
sheet.Iaddend..
2. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further
comprising address setting means for setting an address for reading
so as to read out the image information from said memory means,
wherein said control means controls said address setting means in
response to a result from said deciding means.
3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said
deciding means changes its standard of decision in response to data
pertaining to a size of the sheet.
4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said
image forming means forms said image information on a cut
sheet.
5. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said
deciding means includes counting means for counting the number of
scanning lines of said image information and wherein said deciding
means decides in response to a counting value of said counting
means.
6. An image processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein, in
a case where the counting value of said counting means has exceeded
a predetermined value, said control means controls said image
forming means such that the image information corresponding to the
single page is divided and is image-formed on said plurality of
sheets.
7. An image processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said
predetermined value is associated with a size of the sheet.
8. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said
deciding means decides whether or not said received image
information can be image-formed on said single sheet.
9. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in
a case where said image information corresponding to said single
page is divided and is image-formed on said plurality of sheets,
said control means controls said image forming means such that a
portion of said image information which is image-formed on a first
sheet is again image-formed on a second sheet.
10. An image processing apparatus comprising:
transmitting processing means for transmitting and receiving
compressed image information;
.Iadd.memory means for storing received compressed image
information; .Iaddend.
expanding means for expanding received compressed image information
.Iadd.read from said memory means.Iaddend.;
image forming means for image-forming image information expanded by
said expanding means;
counting means for counting the number of scanning lines of said
compressed image information; and
control means for controlling information output such that, in
response to the number of scanning lines counted by said counting
means, said image information corresponding to a single page is
divided and is image-formed on a plurality of sheets.Iadd.,
wherein, in said case, said control means controls the information
output such that a portion of the image information which is
image-formed on one sheet is again image-formed on a subsequent
sheet.Iaddend..
11. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10, .[.further
comprising memory means for storing the received compressed image
information,.]. wherein said counting means counts the number of
the scanning lines of the compressed image information stored in
said memory means.
12. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein,
in a case where said counting value of said counting means has
exceeded a predetermined value, said control means controls said
image forming means such that the image information corresponding
to the single page is divided and is image-formed on the plurality
of sheets.
13. An image processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein
said predetermined value is associated with a size of said
sheet.
14. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
said control means decides whether or not said received compressed
image information can be image-formed on a single sheet.
15. An image processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein
said control means interrupts output operation of said image
information corresponding to said single page when said counting
value of said counting means has increased to a predetermined
number.
16. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein,
in a case where said image information corresponding to the single
page is divided and is image-formed on said plurality of sheets,
said control means controls the image forming means such that a
portion of said image information which is image-formed on a first
sheet is again image-formed on a second sheet.
17. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
said deciding means decides whether or not the received image
information can be image-formed on said single sheet.
18. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein
said memory means stores the entirety of the compressed image
information corresponding to the single page.
19. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein
said image forming means forms said image information on a cut
sheet.
20. An image processing apparatus comprising:
transmitting/receiving means for transmitting and receiving image
information;
memory means for storing the memory of received image information
corresponding to a single page;
image forming means for image-forming on a sheet said image
information stored in said memory means;
deciding means for deciding whether or not said image information
corresponding to said single page is able to be image-formed on
single sheet; and
control means for controlling information-output such that, in the
case where said deciding means has decided that the image
information corresponding to the single page cannot be image-formed
on the single sheet, the image information corresponding to the
single page is divided and is image-formed on a plurality of
sheets.Iadd.,
wherein, in said case, said memory means retains therein image
information read out therefrom in forming an image on one sheet to
be read out of said memory means again in forming an image on a
subsequent sheet.Iaddend..
21. An image processing apparatus according to claim 20, wherein
said memory means stores the compressed image information.
22. An image processing apparatus according to claim 20, wherein
said deciding means includes counting means for counting the number
of scanning lines of the image information and wherein said
deciding means decides in response to a counting value of said
counting means.
23. A image processing apparatus according to claim 22, wherein, in
a case where the counting value of said counting means has exceeded
a predetermined value, said control means controls said image
forming means such that the image information corresponding to the
single page is divided and is image-formed on the plurality of
sheets.
24. An image processing apparatus according to claim 23, wherein
the predetermined value is associated with a size of the sheet.
25. An image processing apparatus according to claim 23, wherein
said control means interrupts output operation of the image
information corresponding to the single page when the counting
value of said counting means has increased to a predetermined
number.
26. An image processing apparatus according to claim 20, wherein
said image forming means forms the image information on a cut
sheet.
27. An image processing apparatus according to claim 20, further
comprising address setting means for setting an address for reading
out the image information from said memory means, wherein said
control means controls said address setting means in response to
result from said detecting means.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a processing apparatus of the
code-compressed image information for use in a facsimile, an
electronic file or the like.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Hitherto, as shown in FIG. 1, in such a kind of apparatus, a
decoding circuit (hereinafter, referred to as a decoder) is
arranged at the front stage of an image memory and the
code-compressed image information which has been transmitted is
decoded and stored in the image memory. According to this method,
the image information is stored in the image memory on a pixel unit
basis. Therefore, the amount of the information of the image signal
in the image memory is the amount of information in the original
itself, so that when the image information is stored in the image
memory, it is easily possible to easily discriminate how many
standard scale recording sheets the stored information amount
corresponds to.
However, as the information amount increases and the processing
speed of the image is made high, as shown in FIG. 2, there has been
considered an arrangement having an image memory to directly store
the image information which has been code-compressed, in which the
decoder is arranged as the post stage. According to the latter
method, the compressed image data is stored directly. Thus, in the
case where the image memory having the same circuitry is used, an
extremely great quantity of image information can be stored as
compared with the former method (FIG. 1).
However, since the image information stored in the image memory is
compressed according to the method of FIG. 2, the amount of the
data after decoding cannot be easily calculated from the amount of
the data stored in the memory. Therefore, upon recording and
outputting of the image data using the standard scale recording
sheet, it is difficult to discriminate whether the image data can
be recorded on a single standard scale recording sheet or not.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to eliminate the foregoing
drawbacks.
Another object of the invention is to improve an image processing
apparatus.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image
processing apparatus which detects the quantity of the compressed
image data and thereby discriminating whether the image data can be
recorded on a recording material of a predetermined size or
not.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image
processing apparatus in which the quantity of the compressed image
data is detected and when it is determined that the image data
cannot be recorded on a recording material of a predetermined size,
this image data is divided and recorded on a plurality of recording
materials.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image
processing apparatus in which by controlling the recording output
in accordance with the count value of the number of lines of the
image data, if the image data of one page cannot be recorded on a
single recording sheet of a predetermined size, this image data is
recorded and outputted using two or more recording sheets of the
above-mentioned size.
Still another object of the invention is to provide an image
processing apparatus in which by controlling the read address of
the memory in accordance with the count value of the number of
lines of the image data, the image data of one page is divided and
recorded and outputted on two or more recording sheets.
Other objects and features of the present invention will become
apparent from the following detailed description and the appended
claims with reference to the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is an arrangement diagram of a conventional example;
FIG. 2 is an arrangement diagram to which the present invention is
applied;
FIG. 3 consisting of FIGS. 3A-3C, is a block diagram of an
apparatus according to the invention;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a long-scale decision section;
FIG. 5, consisting of FIGS. 5A and 5B, is a flowchart for a control
section;
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing addresses in a memory; and
FIGS. 7 and 8 are diagrams showing an example of recording and
outputting.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
The preferred embodiment of the present invention will now be
described hereinbelow with reference to the drawings.
The present apparatus uses a data compression method by way of MH
(Modified Huffmann) codes and will be described with respect to an
example of a high speed facsimile apparatus for use in both
transmission and reception which has a primer of an electrostatic
recording method in which information is recorded on standard scale
recording sheets (corresponding to JIS A4 size and JIS B4
size).
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an image data processing section of an
apparatus in an embodiment of the present invention. An image on an
original is optically read as pixel information and is converted to
an electrical signal by CCDs 100. This signal is amplified by an
amplifier 101 and is A/D converted. The digitized image data is
supplied to an image area separation processing circuit 102 and a
buffer 103, and then the processing mode to perform either the
binarizing process or dither process is determined. The image data
is inputted to a binary/dither processing circuit 104, by which
each process is carried out. Thereafter, the black/white length in
the main scanning direction is counted by an RL counter (Run Length
counter) 105 to count the number of continuous black or white
pixels. After the image data has been MH-coded by an MH encoder
106, it is stored and accumulated in an image memory 107. At this
time, the MH encoder 106 adds an EOL code (End of Line code: this
code is expressed by "000000000001" as the MH code) indicative of
the line end to the end of each line and adds an RTC code (Return
to Control code: the EOL code continues twice) representative of
the page end to the end of each page. Upon transmission, the stored
page data is sent through an RTC code detection circuit 108, an
error correction coding circuit 109 to detect and correct errors in
the coded data and a CMI (Code Mark Inversion) modulator 110 to a
circuit termination apparatus 111 (hereinafter, referred to as a
BSU (Broadband Service Unit)) arranged at the front stage of a
terminal. Upon reception, the image data from the BSU 111 is stored
into the image memory 107 through a CMI demodulator 112, an error
correction decoding a circuit 113 and an RTC detection circuit 114.
The stored image data is again read out from the image memory 107
and is decoded as an RL signal indicative of RL codes by an MH
decoder 115. This decoded signal is converted to the pixel signal
by an RL counter 118 and is outputted to a printer 121. Although a
long scale decision section 123 in the diagram will be described in
detail hereinbelow, this circuit is constituted such that the
number of EOL (number of lines) detected by the detector 115 is
counted by an EOL counter 116 and then a check is made by a
comparator 117 to see if the data of one page received as described
above can be recorded on a single recording sheet of the standard
size or not. The data transfer speed from the CMI modulator 110 to
the BSU 111 or from the BSU 111 to the CMI demodulator 112 is 768
kbit/sec. The data transfer speed from the MH encoder 106 to the
image memory 107 is 66 Mbit/sec. The above-mentioned control is
performed by a controller 120.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the section regarding the long-scale
decision section 123 in FIG. 3. A reference numeral 1 denotes a
receiver circuit 1 to receive the MH-coded image data which is
transmitted from the outside, and 2 is a well-known image memory
(RAM) which can store and accumulate the MH-coded image data and
simultaneously can read out the data stored. In this embodiment,
this RAM has a capacity of 32 Mbits. In the embodiment, the
resolution in the main scanning direction is 16 dots/mm and that in
the sub-scanning direction is 16 lines/mm. Therefore, for the
number of pixels of one page of the A4-size recording sheet, the
image data consists of about 16 Mbits
(16.times.210.times.16.times.297). According to the conventional
method of FIG. 1, the data of two pages can be stored into this
image memory. However, in this apparatus, the compressed image data
to which the MH-coding process was performed is handled, so that
the information quantity which is about five to twenty times larger
than that in the conventional example can be stored in the image
memory.
A numeral 3 denotes a memory address control circuit to set the
write- or read-address of the image memory 2 having the capacity of
32 Mbits. The write-start address and the read-start address to the
image memory 2 can be set on the basis of an instruction from a
controller 4. The current address in the memory during operation
can be informed to the controller 4. The controller 4 consists of
an MPU (Micro Processing Unit) and controls the memory address
control circuit 3, a decoder 5, an EOL counter circuit 6, etc. The
MH decoder circuit 5 MH-decodes the MH-coded data which has read
out from the image memory 2. The EOL number counter circuit 6
detects the EOL code added to the end of each line of the image
data decoded by the decoder 5 and then counts the number of EOL
codes. A comparator circuit 7 compares the output value of the EOL
counter 6 with the number of lines in the sub-scanning direction
responsive to the size data which is sent from the transmitting
side with respect to the image data, for instance, with the number
(16.times.297) of sub-scanning lines of the A4-size recording sheet
or the number (364.times.16) of sub-scanning lines of the B4-size
recording sheet. When they are coincident, the comparator 7 outputs
a coincidence signal k to the controller 4. A numeral 8 is a
well-known electrostatic recording type printer. This printer
receives the image data from the decoder 5 and prints out the image
data on the standard scale recording sheet.
The operation of the long-scale decision section of FIG. 4 will now
be described. The MH-coded image data a is inputted to the receiver
circuit 1 and is stored into the image memory 2. The write-start
address is first designated to the address 0 by the memory address
control circuit 3. On one hand, the two EOL codes are successively
added to the page end of one page of the MH-coded image data and
these two serial EOL codes are used as the page end code RTC. When
the receiver circuit 1 detects the RTC code, it outputs an RTC
detection signal b to the controller 4, thereby stopping the
storage of the image into the image memory 2. In addition to the
image data, a clock signal is also included in the signal a from
the circuit. When the write-start address is set, the subsequent
write address into the image memory 2 is automatically set
synchronously with the clock signal and the image data is written.
However, the automatic setting of the write address is also stopped
due to the detection of the RTC. The controller 4 reads the
write-end address (this address is set to the address A, here as
shown in FIG. 6) in the memory in the write-stop state through the
memory address control circuit 3 by way of a bus e. At this stage,
the controller 4 memorizes that the image data of the first page
has been stored into the image memory from the address 0 to the
address A. After completion of the storage of the image data of one
page into the memory due to the detection of the RTC, the
controller 4 outputs the storage head address 0 of one page onto a
bus f to read out the data from the image memory and to decode it.
Thus, the control circuit 3 designates the data read-address 0 from
the image memory 2 into the image memory 2.
Next, the controller 4 discriminates the size (A4, B4 or the like)
of the width of the read image received on the basis of the size
data (which may be the size data q that is transmitted from the
line of another system different from the signal line through which
the image data is sent). The controller 4 then designates the line
number according to the size into the line number comparator 7
through a bus j. Simultaneously, the controller 4 resets the EOL
counter 6 by a signal i and outputs to the printer 8 a print-start
signal n indicating that the image data is outputted to the printer
8, thereby starting the recording operation of the printer. Also,
the controller 4 allows the MH decoder 5 to start the reading
operation by a signal h. The MH-decoder 5 starts the readout of the
image data from the address 0 in the image memory 2 and outputs the
decoded pixel data g to the printer 8. In the case where the EOL
code is detected during the detecting operation, the decoder 5
outputs an EOL detection signal l to the EOL counter 6. The EOL
counter 6 counts the EOL detection signal l and outputs the
coincidence signal k to the controller when the count value
coincides with the line number j designated by the controller 4.
The controller 4 detects the signal k and checks to see if the RTC
is detected by the decoder 5 or not. When the RTC is detected, the
decoder 5 outputs an RTC detection signal m to the controller 4 and
stops decoding. In this case, the image data as much as one page
can be recorded on a single recording paper. If the RTC is not
detected, it is determined that the image data of one page cannot
be recorded on a single standard scale recording paper. In this
case, the controller 4 reads the last read-address of the image
memory which is recorded on one recording sheet by the memory
address controller 3, thereby storing this address as the head
address of the data to be outputted on the next standard scale
recording sheet. The read-address from the image memory when the
image data exceeds the number of standard scale lines is set to the
address X (FIG. 6). Although the decoder 5 continuously transmits
the pixel data to the printer without stopping the decoding
operation until the RTC is detected, the printer ignores the pixel
data which cannot be written on the single standard scale recording
paper and waits for the new print-start signal n. When the RTC is
detected by the decoder 5, the detection of the RTC is informed to
the controller 4 by way of the RTC detection signal m and
simultaneously stops the readout of the data from the image memory
and stops the transmission of the pixel data to the printer, then
waits for the next decoder-start signal h. When the controller 4
receives the RTC detection signal m from the decoder, it outputs
the address X as the new read-start address to the memory address
controller 3 by way of the bus f. Next, the EOL counter 6 is reset
by the reset signal i and the printer 8 is made operative in
response to the print-start signal n, while the decoder 5 is
restarted by the signal k. The decoder 5 reads out the image data
from the address X in the image memory 2 and decodes it and then
outputs the pixel data to the printer 8. When the decoder 5 again
detects the RTC, it informs the RTC detection to the controller and
stops the decoding operation. Due to the foregoing operations, in
the case where the quantity of the image data received is larger
than the quantity of the data which can be recorded on a single
standard scale recording sheet, this image data is divided and
recorded and outputted on two sheets of standard scale recording
sheets whose total length is longer than that of the single
recording sheet as shown in FIG. 7. In FIG. 7, the address 0, A and
X are the addresses in the image memory.
The operation flow of the controller 4 in FIG. 4 will then be
explained with reference to FIG. 5. First, the write-start address
(address 0) into the image memory is set (step S1). Then, a
reception start command signal P of the image data is transmitted
to the receiver circuit (STEP S2) to start the reception. The
received image data is continuously written into the image memory 5
until the RTC detection signal b is inputted (STEP S3). When the
RTC detection signal b is inputted, the last write-address (address
A) of the image memory is read through the bus e (STEP S4). The
read-start address of the image memory is outputted to the memory
address controller 3 through the bus f (STEP S5). The reset signal
is transmitted to the EOL counter 6 to reset the EOL counter 6
(STEP S6). The print-start signal n is sent to the printer 8 to
start the printer 8 (STEP S7). The line number of the standard
scale recording sheet corresponding to the width of the original
size of the received image data is set into the line number
comparator 7 through the bus (STEP S8). The decoder-start signal h
is transmitted to the decoder 5 to start the decoding operation
(STEP S9). When the RTC detection signal m is detected (STEP S10),
the processing routine is returned to STEP S1. Unless the RTC
detection signal m is detected, the decoding operation is continued
and in STEP S11, a check is made to see if the image data exceeds
the standard scale line number set in STEP S8 or not by detecting
the reception of the signal k representative of such over-line
number. If the signal k is not received, the decoding operation is
continued and then the processing routine is returned to STEP S10.
When the signal k is received, the last read-address (address X) of
the image memory 2 is inputted through the bus e (STEP S12) and
then the apparatus waits for the detection of the RTC detection
signal m (STEP S13). When the RTC signal is detected, the address X
is set as the read-start address of the image memory through the
bus f (STEP S14), then the processing routine is returned to STEP
S6.
In the foregoing embodiment, when the standard scale line number
coincides with the decoded line number, the image data of one page
is outputted onto two or more standard scale recording sheets.
However, if the standard scale line number (count number) is preset
to a relatively large number, for example, 300 mm instead of 297 mm
in case of the A4-size recording paper (in such a case, there is an
allowance of 3 mm), even in the case where the image data including
extra data corresponding to one additional line is erroneously
transmitted, it will be apparently understood that the data of one
additional line is not recorded on the second recording sheet, so
that there is no need to consume the recording paper in vain.
Further, in case of dividing and outputting the image data of one
page on two sheets of recording sheets, according to the present
embodiment, the image at the rear edge recorded on the first
recording sheet can be again recorded in the beginning of the
second recording sheet (FIG. 8). This operation can be realized in
such a manner that the image memory read-address (address X) when
the image data exceeds the standard scale line number in the
foregoing embodiment is not set to the read-start address of the
next image memory but the address X-N (N<X) may be set as the
read-start address of the next image memory.
On one hand, in the case where the image data exceeds the standard
scale line number, the decoding operation is continued and the
printer 8 ignores the subsequent data in the foregoing embodiment.
However, the processing time can be reduced by constituting the
apparatus in such a manner that when the controller 4 receives the
signal k indicating that the image data exceeds the standard scale
line number, the decoding operation is temporarily interrupted and
the next print-start signal n is outputted to the printer and then
the decoding operation is restarted.
In addition, the present embodiment is constituted such that the
code-compressed image data is directly stored into the image memory
and the data read out from this image memory is decoded and
recorded and outputted. Therefore, the processing speed is improved
because the image data is not transmitted through the
controller.
The coding method is not limited to the MH method but may be
replaced by an MR (Modified Read) method or other method.
Although the foregoing embodiment has been described with respect
to a facsimile apparatus, the coded data stored on an optical disc
or the like is received by the receiver circuit 1 and thereby
making it possible to divide and output this data on two sheets of
recording sheets as mentioned above as will be understood from the
block diagram of FIG. 4.
The present invention is not limited to the foregoing embodiment
but many modifications and variations are possible within the
spirit and scope of the appended claims of the invention.
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