Patent ID: 7304755

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus, comprising: a scanner section for scanning a document and generating image data corresponding to the scanned document to be transmitted; a network interface device connected to a network and configured to transmit and receive facsimile data therebetween; an advertisement information acquiring device configured to acquire advertisement information from an advertisement server connected to said data network via said network interface device; a display device to display the advertisement information acquired from said advertisement information acquiring device; and a displaying control device, wherein said displaying control device causes the advertisement information to be displayed when said document is being scanned and said image data is being accumulated, wherein said displaying control device composes the advertisement information with a part of transmission image data, wherein said displaying control device specifies a transmission destination country from a telephone number of a facsimile transmission address, and wherein said displaying control device composes the advertisement information of a language employed in the specified country with the part of transmission image data.