Patent ID: 7197705
Filing Date: 2007-03-27
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. An electronic mail apparatus, comprising: a storing unit storing information in response to a destination of an electronic mail, the information indicating whether a sentence to be included in the electronic mail is text-displayable based on text data and a character code system used at the destination of the electronic mail; a judging unit judging whether to form image data of a text file corresponding to the sentence based on the information stored in the storing unit; an image data forming unit forming the image data of the text file corresponding to the sentence when the judging unit judges that the image data of the text file corresponding to the sentence should be formed; a transmission unit transmitting the electronic mail with the image data of the text file corresponding to the sentence to the destination of the electronic mail; a translation unit translating the sentence into a language used at the destination when the sentence is expressed by characters written in a language different from the language used at the destination of the electronic mail, the image data forming unit forming the translated image data of translation results expressed by characters written in the language used at the destination when the display control unit cannot text-display the characters written in the language used at the destination of the electronic mail; an edition unit outputting the text file with Japanese words and English words one on top of the other; and a synthesizing unit forming synthesized image data obtained by combining image data formed by the image data forming unit and corresponding to the input sentence with the translated image data, the synthesized image data including the image data of the sentence described by at least two lines and the translated image data of the translation results of the sentence inserted between the at least two lines, the transmission unit transmitting the synthesized image data to the destination of the electronic mail.