摘要 |
A facsimile apparatus is provided with changeover means that makes it possible to pass signals through or to bypass a coder, which encrypts transmission information, and a decoder, which decodes encrypted information that has been received. Whether or not a facsimile apparatus belonging to another party has an encrypting/decoding processing function is verified by a pre-procedure signal. If the other party's apparatus possesses an encrypting/decoding processing function, control is performed in such a manner that encrypting/decoding processing is applied solely to an image signal and a training-check signal transmitted before transmission/reception of the image signal, and encrypting/decoding processing is not applied to a procedure signal which accompanies <?delete-start id="DEL-S-00001" date="20050531" ?>transmission reception<?delete-end id="DEL-S-00001" ?> <?insert-start id="INS-S-00001" date="20050531" ?>transmission/reception <?insert-end id="INS-S-00001" ?>of the image signal. If the other party's apparatus does not possess an encrypting/decoding processing function, it is possible to select between terminating communication and performing facsimile communication without executing encrypting/decoding processing.
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