Patent ID: 6172763
Filing Date: 2001-01-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image communicating method, comprising the steps of:communicating between a transmitting side and a receiving side through an internet to transmit a prescribed page size treatable on the receiving side from the receiving side to the transmitting side;judging whether or not a particular paper size of a particular paper used on the transmitting side is larger than the prescribed paper size;optically downsizing a particular image written in the particular paper on the transmitting side to produce downsized image data indicating a downsized particular image, which is reproducible on a paper of the prescribed paper size, in cases where the particular paper size is larger than the prescribed paper size;producing attribute information indicating the prescribed paper size of the downsized particular imagetransmitting the downsized image data and the attribute information from the transmitting side to the receiving side by an electronic mail through the internet;extracting the prescribed paper size of the downsized particular image from the attribute information on the receiving side;judging that the prescribed paper size extracted on the receiving side is treatable on the receiving side; andprinting the downsized particular image on a prescribed paper of the prescribed paper size according to the downsized image data on the receiving side.