Patent ID: 6982806

Claim:
An electronic apparatus which conducts facsimile communication to transmit and receive image data to be recorded respectively on both front and back sides of a recording paper, said apparatus comprising a transmitter and a receiver, wherein, when said electronic apparatus transmits and receives page data including the image data of either one of front and back sides of an original document, said transmitter is adapted to: (1) add, to the page data to be transmitted, attribute data of at least a page counter (PC) representing the actual number of pages of the original document, information (SIDE) representing whether the page data corresponds to the front side or the back side of the original document, and virtual page number data (VPC) synchronous with a transmission order of the page data, and then transmit the attribute data via a post-message signal according to a recommended facsimile procedure, and (2) transmit neither image data nor the post-message signal for a page having no available information, but to add continuous virtual page number data (VPC) and then transmit the post-message signal for pages preceding and succeeding the page having no available information; and wherein said receiver is adapted to image-record the received page data onto both of the sides of the recording paper, on the basis of the transmitted attribute data of the page counter (PC) representing the actual number of pages of the original document, the information (SIDE) representing whether the page data corresponds to the front side or the back side of the original document and the virtual page number data (VPC), and to conduct such recording so as to output as a blank sheet the pages having no available information.