Patent ID: 8724143

Claim:
An image communicating apparatus comprising: a communicating control unit that controls an internet facsimile communication for transmitting/receiving control information and a packet containing image information based on a T.38 protocol; a loss detecting unit that detects a loss of the packet transmitted from a transmitting side in a stage for receiving the image information through the packet based on the T.38 protocol; a complementing information holding unit that holds, at a receiving side, complementing information for complementing the image information contained in the lost packet; a first complementing information holding unit that holds the image information contained in a normally received packet as first complementing information; a second complementing information holding unit that holds decoding abnormal information which is not decoded normally as second complementing information; a complementing information selecting unit that selects either the first complementing information or the second complementing information as complementing information; and a complementation processing unit that complements the image information contained in the lost packet with the complementing information held by the complementing information holding unit if the loss of the packet is detected by the loss detecting unit, wherein the complementation processing unit complements the first or second complementing information which is selected by the complementing information selecting unit.