Patent ID: 6011634
Filing Date: 2000-01-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A portable facsimile equipment comprising:document management means for storing and managing a plurality of documents;document preparation processing means for preparing a document;display means;first display control means for causing the display means to display a list of document names corresponding to the plurality of documents stored in the document management means;selecting means for selecting a document name corresponding to a document to be transmitted from among the plurality of document names displayed on the display means; transmitting means for transmitting as a facsimile signal the document to be transmitted to a destination party;transmission control means for reading out from the document management means a document corresponding to the document name selected by the selecting means and transmitting the read document to the transmitting means and the display means;receiving means for receiving and demodulating a facsimile signal from a communicating party; andsecond display control means for causing the display means to display the document transmitted by the transmission control means in synchronism with a transmitting operation by the transmitting means,wherein the first display control means causes the display means to display a document name being transmitted by the transmitting means and another document name in different display formats;the document management means subjects the document data to be stored to a first encoding scheme when said document data is character data, and subjects the document data to be stored to a second encoding scheme when said document data is raster data; andthe document management means halts the operation of the document preparation processing means when a signal is being received from a communicating party.