US 7,321,442 B2 | ||
Image data communications device and method | ||
Hidehiko Ogawa, Kanagawa (Japan) | ||
Assigned to Panasonic Communications, Co., Ltd., Fukuoka (Japan) | ||
Filed on Jan. 30, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/767,763. | ||
Application 10/767763 is a continuation of application No. 09/461402, filed on Dec. 15, 1999, granted, now 6,710,894. | ||
Claims priority of application No. 11-056493 (JP), filed on Mar. 04, 1999. | ||
Prior Publication US 2004/0252336 A1, Dec. 16, 2004 | ||
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 358—1.15 [358/402; 358/440; 379/100.08] | 18 Claims |
1. An image data communication apparatus connected to a network, and transmitting image data attached to an e-mail to a receiving
apparatus via the network, the e-mail including a mail from command and a mail message, the image data communication apparatus
comprising;
a scanner configured to scan the image data;
a memory configured to store a default e-mail address, the memory being within the image data communication apparatus;
a panel configured to input an e-mail address of a user into the image data communication apparatus, the panel including a
start actuator; and
a controller configured to control the scanner to scan the image data and to convert the scanned image data into a format
for e-mail transmission in response to operation of the start actuator,
the controller being further configured to set the default e-mail address into the mail message of the e-mail to which the
image data is attached when the e-mail address of the user is not input by the panel,
the controller being further configured to set the e-mail address of the user, input by the panel, into the mail message of
the e-mail to which the image data is attached when the e-mail address of the user is input by the panel, the e-mail address
of the user being distinct from an e-mail address of the image data communication apparatus, whereby the e-mail address of
the user set into the mail message of the e-mail is utilized as a destination of a reply to the e-mail, the reply being sent
from the receiving apparatus, the reply being returned to the e-mail address of the user, and not being returned to e-mail
address of the image data communication apparatus.
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