Image communicating apparatus

Claim 2

An image communicating apparatus comprising: an image reading means for reading an original document to obtain data; a receiving means for receiving data from a facsimile apparatus over a telephone line; a data type recognizing means for recognizing whether data is the data obtained by said image reading means or the data received from the facsimile over the telephone line; an adding means for adding a data description form which can be used in Internet communications if said data type recognizing means determines that the data is obtained by said image reading means, and adds a data description form which can be used in Internet communications while maintaining a received form of the data if said data type recognizing means determines that the data is received over the telephone line; and an outputting means for outputting the data to which the data description form has been added by said adding means to an Internet connection.

Claim 3

An image communicating apparatus comprising: an inputting means for inputting image data; a recognizing means for determining whether the data inputted by said inputting means is in a bit form or compressed data; a data form generating means for generating a data form for processing image data when said recognizing means determines that said data inputted by said inputting means is in the bit form, and a data form that may be set thereto when the data has been determined to be compressed; and an outputting means for outputting the data generated by said data form generating means.

Claim 4

An image communicating apparatus comprising: an inputting means for inputting image data; a recognizing means for determining whether the data inputted by said inputting means is in a bit form or compressed data; a data form generating means for generating a data form for processing image data when said recognizing means determines that said data inputted by said inputting means is in the bit form, and a data form that may be set thereto when the data has been determined to be compressed; and an outputting means for outputting the data generated by said data form generating means.

Claim 5

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said inputting means is an image reading unit for reading an original document.

Claim 6

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said inputting means is a receiving unit of a facsimile for receiving data from another facsimile unit.

Claim 7

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein when said recognizing means determines that the data is in the bit form, said data form generating means generates a TIFF file form.

Claim 8

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the data in the TIFF file form includes compressed information.

Claim 9

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein when said recognizing means determines that the data is in the bit form, said data form generating unit generates a GIF file form.

Claim 10

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein the data form generated by said data form generating means is an HTML description form.

Claim 11

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said outputting means generates data to communicate over an Internet connection.

Claim 12

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said outputting means outputs the generated data to a personal computer connected to said image communicating apparatus.

Claim 13

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said outputting means provides the generated data to a removable nonvolatile storage unit.

Claim 14

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 further comprising an OCR unit for recognizing the inputted data in OCR, and an address generating means for generating an address of a destination of a communication on the basis of a result of the recognition by said OCR unit.

Claim 15

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 12 further comprising an OCR unit for recognizing the inputted data in OCR, and an address generating means for generating an address of a destination of a communication on the basis of the recognition by said OCR unit.

Claim 16

An image communicating apparatus according to claim 2 further comprising a connecting means for connecting said image communicating apparatus to a telephone line, and a LAN unit for connecting said image communicating apparatus to a LAN.

Claim 17

An image communicating apparatus comprising: an image reading unit for reading an original document; a data inputting means for inputting direction data; an image storage means for storing received image data and image data to be transmitted; an image recording unit for printing out said image data stored in said image storage means; a communication controlling means for controlling an operation to transmit/receive data over a communication line; a description form generating means for generating a data description form which can be used in Internet communications, said image communicating apparatus determining whether the data to be treated in Internet communication is in a bit form or in a compressed form, and which generates a data description form for processing image data when said data is in the bit form, and generates a data description form which can be attached to the data indicating that the data has been compressed when said data is in the compressed form; and an outputting means for relating the data description form generated by said description form generating means to the image data stored in said image storage to communicate over an Internet connection.

Claim 18

An image communicating apparatus comprising: an image reading unit for reading an original document; a data inputting means for inputting direction data; an image storage means for storing received image data and image data to be transmitted; an image recording unit for printing out said image data stored in said image storage means; a communication controlling means for controlling an operation to transmit/receive data over a communication line; a description form generating means for generating a data description form which can be used in Internet communications, said image communicating apparatus determining whether the data to be treated in Internet communication is in a bit form or in a compressed form, and which generates a data description form for processing image data when said data is in the bit form, and generates a data description form which can be attached to the data indicating that the data has been compressed when said data is in the compressed form; and an outputting means for relating the data description form generated by said description form generating means to the image data stored in said image storage to communicate over an Internet connection.

Claim 19

An image communicating method comprising the steps of: an inputting step of inputting data; a recognizing step of determining whether said inputted data is in a bit form or in a compressed form; a generating step of generating a data form for processing image data when it is determined at said recognizing step that said data is in the bit form, and for generating a data form that can be combined with said data indicating that said data has been compressed when it is determined at said recognizing step that said data is in the compressed form; and an outputting step of outputting the generated data.

Claim 20

An image communicating method comprising the steps of: an inputting step of inputting data; a recognizing step of determining whether said inputted data is in a bit form or in a compressed form; a generating step of generating a data form for processing image data when it is determined at said recognizing step that said data is in the bit form, and for generating a data form that can be combined with said data indicating that said data has been compressed when it is determined at said recognizing step that said data is in the compressed form; and an outputting step of outputting the generated data.

Claim 21

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein at said inputting step, said data is inputted from an image reading unit for reading an original document.

Claim 22

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein at said inputting step, said data is received by a receiving unit of a facsimile unit from another facsimile unit.

Claim 23

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein at said generating step, the generated data form is an TIF file form when it is determined at said recognizing step that said data is in the compressed form.

Claim 24

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein at said data form generating step, the generated data form is a GIF file form when it is determined at said recognizing step that said data is in the bit form.

Claim 25

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein said data form generated at said generating step is an HTML description form.

Claim 26

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein at said outputting step, the generated data is outputted to communicate over an Internet connection.

Claim 27

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein at said outputting step, the generated data is outputted to a personal computer.

Claim 28

An image communicating method according to claim 16 , wherein at said outputting step, the generated data is outputted to an removable nonvolatile storage unit.

Claim 29

An image communicating method according to claim 16 further comprising an OCR recognizing step of recognizing said inputted data in OCR, and an address generating step of generating a destination address of a communication on the basis of a result of the OCR recognizing step.