JP2582473B2 - Facsimile machine - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus dedicated to transmission.

(Prior Art) In a facsimile apparatus having a general transmission / reception function, communication information such as a transmission date and time, a transmission partner, a communication time, the number of pages, and the presence or absence of an error is stored. Thus, the communication information is printed and output on a built-in recording paper by a printing mechanism used at the time of reception.

Further, a facsimile apparatus dedicated to transmission does not have a printing mechanism, and thus does not store communication information.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, the conventional transmission-only facsimile apparatus does not include a printing mechanism, and therefore does not store communication information and cannot confirm the communication information.

By the way, in a transmission-only facsimile apparatus, it is assumed that communication information is temporarily stored, and that the communication information is transmitted to another facsimile apparatus having a printing mechanism to output the communication information in order to confirm the communication information. In this case, it is desirable that the communication information can be easily transmitted to the facsimile apparatus having the telephone number stored in advance. Further, it is desirable that communication information can be transmitted to a facsimile apparatus having an arbitrary telephone number other than a facsimile apparatus having a telephone number stored in advance. Further, for example, when a plurality of facsimile machines dedicated to this type of transmission are held,
It is expected that some of the phone numbers are stored in advance and some are not, so identify the presence or absence of the storage and perform the transmission operation of the previously stored phone number or enter an arbitrary phone number. It is burdensome for the operator to perform the input separately.

The present invention has been made in view of such a point, and enables communication information to be confirmed even when transmission is dedicated by storing and transmitting communication information, and furthermore, the communication information is stored in advance when transmitting the communication information. It is possible to send to the destination so that there is no need for troublesome operation such as inputting a telephone number every time transmission is performed, and it is also possible to transmit to any destination desired by the operator. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of performing a transmission operation without having to pay particular attention to whether or not the information is stored.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In a facsimile apparatus dedicated to transmission, the present invention provides a communication information storage means for storing communication information as coded data, and a transmission of the communication information stored in the communication information storage means. Transmission instruction means for instructing, input means for inputting a telephone number of a communication information destination, telephone number storage means for storing a telephone number of a communication information transmission destination, and transmission in response to a transmission instruction by the transmission instruction means Determining means for determining whether the previous telephone number is stored; and dialing the telephone number when the telephone number is input by the input means, and determining that the telephone number is stored by the determining means. Is transmitted to the dialing means for dialing the stored telephone number, and to the input means when the determining means determines that the telephone number is not stored. Therefore, standby means for waiting for input of a telephone number, conversion means for converting coded data of communication information stored in the communication information storage means into image data, and image data converted by the conversion means And transmission means for transmitting to the transmission destination that has dialed.

(Operation) In the present invention, transmission communication information is stored in the communication information storage means as coded data.

To transmit the communication information to another facsimile apparatus in order to confirm the stored communication information, transmission is instructed by the transmission instructing unit, or a telephone number of an arbitrary destination is input by the input unit.

In accordance with the transmission instruction by the transmission instruction means, the determination means determines whether or not the telephone number of the transmission destination is stored in advance, and if the telephone number is stored in advance, dials the telephone number stored in advance by the dial transmission means. If the telephone number is not stored in advance, the control waits until the telephone number of the transmission destination is input by the input means, and if the telephone number is input by the input means, dials the telephone number.

Even if the telephone number of the transmission destination is stored in advance, if the telephone number is input by the input means without operating the transmission instructing means, dialing is performed to the input telephone number.

The conversion means converts the coded data of the communication information stored in the communication information storage means into image data, and transmits the image data converted by the transmission means to the destination of the dial call.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus dedicated to transmission, and 1 is a CPU that controls the entire facsimile apparatus and functions as a transmission unit for data transmission.
A line controller 4 having a modem (not shown) and a relay for switching the connection between the modem and the telephone 3 to the public line 2 is controlled, and the transmission is performed to the facsimile machine 5 of the transmission partner through the line controller 4. be able to.

The bus line 6 of the CPU 1 includes a ROM 7 storing a system program and the like, various types of data (including a telephone number), a communication information storage unit for storing communication information as coded data, and a telephone number storage unit. Functioning RAM 8, keyboard 9 for inputting telephone numbers, etc., display section 10 such as a liquid crystal display for displaying various information, reading section 11 for reading a transmission original, image compression section 12 for compressing image data to be transmitted, stored in RAM 8 Conversion means 13 for converting the coded data of the communication information into image data
Is connected.

FIG. 2 shows the keyboard 9, which includes a numeric keypad 14 as input means for inputting a telephone number and the like, and an information transmission key 15 as transmission instruction means for manually instructing transmission of communication information.

FIG. 3 shows an example in which the contents of the communication information storage area of the RAM 8 are imaged, and stores information such as transmission No., transmission start date and time, destination, transmission time, number of pages, communication OK and error type.

The CPU 1 determines whether or not the telephone number of the transmission destination is stored in response to the transmission instruction by the information transmission key 15 (step 12 in FIG. 5). The function of the dial transmission means for dialing the telephone number through the line control unit 4 and, when it is determined by the determination unit that the telephone number is stored, dialing the stored telephone number through the line control unit 4 ( In steps 13 and 26 in FIG. 5, when the determination means determines that the data is not stored, the function of the standby means (step 25 in FIG. 5) for waiting for the input of the telephone number by the ten keys 14 is performed. Have.

 Next, the operation of the present embodiment will be described.

First, the document transmission operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

When transmission is started (step 1), a reading section 11 reads a document to be transmitted, compresses the image data with an image compression section 12, and transmits the compressed data to a facsimile machine 5 of a transmission partner through a line control section 4.

This communication information during transmission is encoded data as RA
The information is sequentially stored in the communication information storage area of M8 (step 3).

When the transmission is completed (step 2), the communication information at the end of the communication is stored as coded data in the communication information storage area of the RAM 8 (step 4).

Next, the operation of transmitting communication information will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, a case will be described in which a telephone number of a transmission destination to which communication information is transmitted is stored (registered) in advance and automatic transmission is performed.

In addition, as the transmission instruction means for instructing the transmission of communication information, in addition to the information transmission key 15 manually operated when necessary,
There is a function of the CPU 1 for automatically instructing transmission of communication information when the number of transmissions of a document reaches a predetermined number (for example, 50 times).

When the information transmission key 15 of the keyboard 9 is pressed or the number of document transmissions reaches a predetermined number and the CPU 1 automatically instructs transmission (step 11), the telephone number is stored (registered) by the function of the determination means of the CPU 1. ) Is determined (step
12). If the phone number is stored (registered), CP
The line is connected and the stored (registered) telephone number is automatically dialed by the function of the dial transmission means of U1 (step 13). In addition. If the telephone number has not been stored (registered), the process proceeds to step 24 described later.

Then, after the dial transmission, if the transmission partner does not respond even after the specified time elapses because the facsimile machine 5 of the transmission partner is in use (steps 14 and 15), the line connection is cut off and transmission is stopped. (Step 16).

Also, if the facsimile machine 5 of the transmission partner responds,
A known transmission start procedure is performed (step 17).

Then, the coded data of the communication information stored in the communication information storage area of the RAM 8 is read out, converted into image data by the conversion means 13 and compressed by the image compression unit 12 (steps 18 and 19). The image data is transmitted to the destination facsimile machine 5 through the line controller 4 (step 20).

When the transmission is completed (step 21), a known transmission end procedure is performed to disconnect the line connection (steps 22 and 2).
3).

Next, a case where a telephone number of a transmission destination to which communication information is transmitted is input at the time of calling will be described.

When the line is connected by the telephone 3 (step 2
4) The CPU 1 waits for a telephone number to be input by the ten keys 14 of the keyboard 9 by the function of the standby means of the CPU 1 (step 25). When the phone number is entered, the CP
The input telephone number is dialed by the function of the dial transmission means of U1 (step 26).

Subsequently, when the information transmission key 15 of the keyboard 9 is pressed (step 27), the process proceeds to step 14 and waits for the facsimile machine 5 of the transmission partner to respond, and then transmits the communication information as described above.

Also, if the line is disconnected by the telephone 3 without the telephone number being input even if the line is connected by the telephone 3,
If the information transmission key 15 is not depressed even if the telephone number is input and the telephone number is entered, it is determined that the telephone 3 is to be used for a normal telephone call, and if the line connection of the telephone 3 is disconnected, the processing is terminated. (Step 28).

Then, the communication information sent by the facsimile machine 5 of the transmission partner is printed out, and the communication information can be confirmed by looking at the received original.

(Effect of the Invention) According to the present invention, transmission communication information is stored and transmitted,
By printing out the communication information with the facsimile machine of the transmission destination, the communication information can be confirmed even for transmission only. In addition, when transmitting the communication information, it is possible to dial and transmit the telephone number stored in advance by the transmission instruction by the transmission instruction means, and it is not necessary to perform a troublesome operation of inputting the telephone number every transmission. Further, when a telephone number is input by the input means, the input telephone number can be dialed and transmitted, and can be transmitted to any destination desired by the operator. Further, it is determined whether or not the telephone number is stored in advance at the time of the transmission instruction by the transmission instructing means. If the telephone number is stored in advance, the telephone number is dialed and transmitted, and if it is not stored, the input is made. Means for inputting the telephone number of the transmission destination, and when the telephone number is input by the input means, the telephone number is dialed and transmitted. The transmission operation can be performed without having to be particularly aware of whether or not the information is stored, and the operability can be improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view of a keyboard, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the contents of a communication information storage area of a RAM, and FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of transmitting a document, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of transmitting communication information. 1 CPU as judgment means, dial transmission means, standby means and transmission means, 8 RAM as communication information storage means and telephone number storage means, 13 conversion means 14, 14
Numeric keys 15 as input means, information transmission keys as transmission instructing means.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A transmission-only facsimile apparatus, comprising: a communication information storage unit for storing communication information as coded data; a transmission instruction unit for instructing transmission of the communication information stored in the communication information storage unit; Input means for inputting a telephone number of a transmission destination of information; telephone number storage means for storing a telephone number of a transmission destination of communication information; and a telephone number of the transmission destination in response to a transmission instruction by the transmission instruction means. Determining means for determining whether a telephone number has been input by the input means, dialing the telephone number, and determining that the telephone number is stored by the determining means, A dial calling means for making a dial call, and a telephone number is input by the input means when it is determined that the telephone number is not stored by the determining means. A conversion unit that converts coded data of the communication information stored in the communication information storage unit into image data; and a transmission destination that dial-transmits the image data converted by the conversion unit. A facsimile apparatus, comprising: