Patent ID: 8179572
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A communication device for forming an image from image data received from a transmitting device, the communication device comprising: a receiving unit for receiving the image data, the image data including first image data and second image data received following the first image data, the first image data including transmitting device information about the transmitting device, the second image data having been processed by the transmitting device; a memory unit for storing the first image data and the second image data as one item of continuous image data; an image processing unit for shortening the continuous image data stored in the memory unit by removing the transmitting device information, thereby obtaining modified image data, and outputting the modified image data; and an image forming unit for using the modified image data output by the image processing unit to form an image, wherein to detect the transmitting device information image in the stored continuous image data, the image processing unit counts consecutive blank lines and consecutive non-blank lines.