Patent ID: 7151616
Filing Date: 2006-12-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A facsimile apparatus for reading images of original sheets in which both-side and one-side original sheets exist mixedly and transmitting them to a receiver station, comprising: reading means for reading the images on both sides of the original sheet; discriminating means for discriminating whether the images on both sides read by said reading means have effective image information or not; and control means adapted for selectively determining use of a both-side transmitting procedure if both sides of the original sheet have effective image information or use of a one-side transmitting procedure if both sides of the original sheet do not have effective image information, for each transmission of one original sheet, in accordance with a result of the discrimination of said discriminating means; and for transmitting to the receiver station both-side transmission control information including a page number and information regarding front or reverse side of the original sheet, for each side of the original sheet, when said both-side transmitting procedure is used, and omitting the transmission of the both-side transmission control information, so that when the one-side transmitting procedure is used, the page number is not transmitted to the receiver station, and when the both-side transmitting procedure is used, the page number is transmitted to the receiver station.