Patent ID: 6018569
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
A facsimile machine for transmitting information to and receiving information from a remote facsimile machine, comprising:data input means for inputting various data including sound data;transmission/reception control means for transmitting at least one of image data and sound data as transmission data to a remote facsimile machine and for receiving at least one of sound data and image data from the remote facsimile machine;sound data recording means for recording at least one of sound data inputted by the sound data input means and sound data received by the transmission/reception control means;sound reproduction means for reproducing the sound data recorded by the sound data recording means;visualizing means for visualizing various data;clock means for monitoring time;memory means for storing time information on time at which the sound data is desired to be reproduced, the time information being transmitted from the remote facsimile machine when the sound data is transmitted from the remote facsimile machine and being inputted by the data input means when the sound data is inputted by the data input means; andcontrol means for controlling the sound reproduction means to reproduce the sound data when the time measured by the clock means reaches the time at which the sound data is desired to be reproduced, and for controlling said visualizing means, after the sound data is reproduced, to visualize an information that the sound data is reproduced and is retained in said recording means.