Patent ID: 7042584
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A complex image processing apparatus capable of operating as a facsimile apparatus, comprising; image reading means for reading image information of a document; image communicating means for transmitting the image information read by the image reading means and receiving image information; image forming means for recording the image information received by the image communicating means on a recording medium; mode switching means for carrying out switching among facsimile mode and others modes each involving recording image information on a recording medium, the complex image processing apparatus being used in the facsimile mode, as a facsimile apparatus in which a memory reception function can be specified, and in the other modes, as other kinds of apparatuses; a memory for facsimile available for receiving facsimile data in the facsimile mode; a memory for other modes available in the other modes; and memory control means for performing control in the facsimile mode such that image information previously received and stored in the memory for facsimile is rearranged in order that at least part of the image information previously received and stored in the memory for facsimile is transferred to either or both of the memories for the other modes in the case where predetermined conditions are satisfied, only after the at least part of the image information was first received and stored in the memory for facsimile, and facsimile data continues to be received by the memory for facsimile.