Patent ID: 7092113
Filing Date: 2006-08-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image communication apparatus for communicating a color image according to at least one ITU-T recommendation with a distant apparatus, comprising: original read means for generating image data by reading an original; identification means for identifying a size of the original read by said original read means; compression means for compressing image data; and control means for, in a case where a paper size of the original identified by said identification means is smaller than a paper size defined by the recommendation, causing said original read means to read the original upon adding invalid data thereto to make the image data of the original have a paper size equal to the paper size defined by the recommendation, and causing said compression means to compress the image data having the paper size defined by the recommendation and performing control to set a valid image area of the image data that has been compressed in accordance with the paper size of the original in a case where the image data that has been compressed is transmitted.