Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and method that serve to smoothly establish a mutual connection of electronic devices having a built-in wireless link device and that allow the combination of devices to be varied dynamically in accordance with the status and/or application.

Abstract: A facsimile apparatus has a transparent plate on which a document may be located. The document is then scanned by a scanner which includes electronic solid state light generation means e.g. LEDs which illuminate the document, with the light reflected from the document being detected by a detector. An electronic signal corresponding to an image of the document may then be transmitted to a remote location. Alternately, the facsimile apparatus may be used to copy the document. Cut paper sheets are withdrawn from storage and an image printed thereon by a heat transfer system in which a film of ink is selectively heated. Paper on which an image has been printed is then received on the upper surface of the storage. The facsimile apparatus may also have a document transporter for moving a document past the scanner with the scanner fixed.

Abstract: A broadcasting facsimile transceiver has a transmission controller which, in the broadcasting mode, inhibits broadcasting communications during a predetermined interval of time ranging from the completion of transmission to a destination to the commencement of transmission to the succeeding destination. The transceiver also includes a scanning unit for reading a document and delivering video data, a data compression unit for compressing the video data, a memory unit for storing compressed video data from said data compression unit, a reproduction unit for reading the compressed video data stored in said memory unit, a MODEM for transmitting the video data to a communication line.

Abstract: A facsimile transceiver equipped with a broadcasting feature wherein a transmission data is temporarily stored in a memory and thereafter the data is successively transmitted to a plurality of destinations. The facsimile transceiver includes a unit for expanding and reproducing once compressed and stored transmission data, a switch unit provided at the input side of a scanning resolution converter for selecting either the data from the expansion and reproduction unit or the transmission data from a scanner. In case broadcast is conducted using the facsimile transceiver, the expanded and reproduced transmission data is inputted to the scanning resolution converter to transmit it using the same method as of one-to-one communication. Thus, it is possible to use any type of a facsimile transceiver as a broadcasting reception terminal, and to broadcast to a broadcasting reception terminal in the same mode as of one-to-one communication.