Patent ID: 6912072

Claim:
An image communication apparatus comprising: receiving means for receiving an image; recording means for recording the image; recording head control means for controlling the operation of a shuttle-type recording head, wherein said recording head control means comprises recording control means for reading and recording data in said second buffer means in accordance with the position of the recording head; scanning means for scanning the recording head onto a recording medium; first accumulation means for accumulating a received image; second accumulation means for accumulating at least a part of the received image for recording, wherein said second accumulation means comprises first buffer means for temporarily accumulating an image transferred from said first accumulation means and second buffer means for accumulating H-V converted data into which data in said first buffer means is H-V converted; and third accumulation means for accumulating parameters for controlling the operation of the recording head, wherein said first, second and third accumulation means are constituted by a single accumulator.