JPH01292963A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To compare and confirm a transmitting document and a result of communication when the transmission of the document is ended by generating a reduced schematic diagram of the transmitting document by a schematic diagram generating part, and sending it out to a recording part, and also, sending out communication recording data from a communication management report to the recording part, and recording it in the same page. CONSTITUTION:A schematic diagram generating part 9 applies reduction processing of a binary image signal which is inputted from a reading part 1 at the time of transmitting a document, eliminates all white lines from its reduced binary image signal and generates a reduced schematic diagram of the transmitting document and sends it out to a recording part 4. Subsequently, the recording part 4 outputs this reduced schematic diagram to recording paper, and records communication recording data which is generated by a communication management report generating part 8 in the same recording paper when the communication is ended. In this way, as for a communication management report function, not only the communication of communication recording but the confirmation which has compared it with the contents of the transmitting document can be executed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile device that transmits original documents such as characters and figures via a telephone line.

[Conventional technology]

Figure 5 is Shuryo Electric Technical Report - Vo1.60 Nn 11.1
986.

This is a schematic block diagram of a conventional Group 3 facsimile machine shown on pages 48 (782) to 51 (786). In the figure, 1 is a reading section that converts a transmitted document into a black and white binary image signal, and 2 is a reading section. An encoding section that data compression encodes the binary image signal read in section 1; a modulation section 3 that modulates the encoded signal compressed and encoded by the encoding section 2 and sends it to the telephone line; 4 is a recording unit that outputs the binary image signal to recording paper and cuts the recording paper; 5 is a decoding unit that restores the encoded signal to a binary image signal; and 6 is a unit that receives the signal through a telephone line. A demodulation section 7 demodulates the modulated signal; 7 is a sent stamp stamping section that stamps a sent stamp on the transmitted document when the transmission operation ends normally; 8 creates communication record data and sends it to the recording section 4 when the communication operation ends. This is the communication management report creation department.

Next, the transmission/reception operation will be explained. During the transmission operation, the original to be transmitted is scanned line-sequentially, converted into a black and white binary image signal in the reading section 1, and sent to the encoding section 2.

The encoder 2 subjects the input binary image signal to data compression encoding and sends it to the modulator 3, which modulates the encoded signal and sends it to the telephone line.

During a reception operation, a modulated signal received from another facsimile device via a telephone line is demodulated by the demodulator 6 into a coded signal, and the decoder 5 restores it to a binary image signal. The restored binary image signal is output to the recording section 4 and recorded on recording paper.

Also, when the transmission operation is finished, the communication management report creation section 8
creates communication record data consisting of communication start time 2 communication time, partner ID (confirmation) number 9 communication mode, or communication results indicating normal termination or abnormal termination of communication and sends it to recording unit 4, and the recording unit Print them.

Further, when the sent stamp stamp section 7 confirms that the transmission has been completed normally, it stamps the sent document with a sent stamp.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Since the conventional facsimile apparatus is configured as described above, there is a problem in that the communication management report function can only check the communication record and cannot check the contents of the transmitted original.

Furthermore, the sent stamp function allows you to confirm both the content of the sent document and the successful completion of communication, but it has the problem of stamping unnecessary stamps on the main body and the document.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile device that can record the contents of a transmitted document and a communication record on the same page.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile apparatus according to the present invention includes a schematic diagram creation section that creates a reduced schematic diagram of a transmission document and outputs it to a recording section when transmitting the manuscript, and a communication recorder that creates communication record data and sends it to the recording section at the end of communication operation. The system also includes a management report creation department.

[For production]

The schematic diagram creation unit in this invention performs reduction processing on the binary image signal input from the reading unit when transmitting the original, removes all white lines from the reduced binary image signal, and creates a reduced schematic diagram of the transmitted original. It is created and sent to the recording section, and the recording section outputs this reduced schematic diagram on recording paper, and records the communication record data created by the communication management report creation section on the same recording paper at the end of the communication.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1st
In the figure, 9 is a schematic drawing section, a reading section 1 and a recording section 4.
connected between.

This schematic diagram creation section 9 is composed of a reduction section 10 that performs reduction processing on the binary image signal input from the reading section 1, and an all-white line skip section 11 that removes all daily lines from the reduced binary image signal. and create a reduced schematic diagram of the transmitted manuscript.

In addition, in FIG. 1, the sent stamp sealing part T shown in FIG. 5 is omitted, and other blocks that are the same as those shown in FIG. Omitted.

Next, the operation will be explained. During the transmission operation, the reading section 1 scans the document line-by-line and converts it into a black and white binary image signal.
The converted binary image signal is data compression encoded, so
It is sent to the encoding unit 2 and also to the schematic diagram creation unit 9.

The schematic diagram creating section 9 creates a reduced schematic diagram of the transmission document and sends it to the recording section 4.

The recording section 4 outputs a reduced schematic diagram of the transmission document on recording paper, and after the transmission is completed, outputs the communication record data inputted from the communication management report creation section 8, and cuts the recording paper.

Next, the operation of the schematic diagram creation section 9 will be explained.

The reduction unit 10 performs 1/N (natural number where N>1) reduction processing in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction on the binary image signal input from the reading unit 1, and sequentially performs a pixel-by-pixel all-white line skipping unit. Send it to 11.

The all-white line skip section 11 skips a line in which all white pixels are not included in the input reduced pixel data to the recording section 4.
Send to. Originally, in order to send only lines other than all-white lines to the recording unit 4, it is necessary to prepare a line memory, store each line one by one, and decide whether to send the line to the recording unit 4 after determining whether it is an all-day line or not. Must be.

However, in this embodiment, the decision to send data to the recording unit 4 is made based on whether the previous line is an all-white line, and if the previous line is not an all-white line, reduced pixel data is sent to the recording unit 4. , it is decided not to use line memory.

In this case, the line containing black pixels after the all-day line is not sent out, but in the case of facsimile machines, because documents are read at high resolution, the lines containing black pixels have a continuous property, and about one line The omission is considered to have no effect on obtaining the schematic diagram.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure in the all-day line skip section 11. In this FIG. 2, in order to determine whether the previous line is completely white, the flag W-F
Prepare LAG. The flag W-FLAG is set to 1" when the previous line is completely white, and is set to "O" when it includes black pixels.

As the initial state of step STI, W-FLAG is '1
”. This is because the first line of one page is assumed to be completely white, so the reduced pixel data of the first line is not unconditionally sent to the recording unit 4.

In the next step ST2, when the reduced pixel data is input in step ST3 from the state of waiting for input of the first reduced pixel data of one line from the reduction unit 10, it is determined whether the previous line is completely white.

If the previous line is not all days, W-FL in step ST4.
AG is set to ``1'', and in step ST5 it is determined whether the pixel is a black pixel, and as a result of the determination, if it is a black pixel, step S
At T7, W-FLAG is set to "0". and step S
At T7, the pixel data is sent to the recording section 4.

If this pixel data is not the last data of one line in step STIO, the process waits for the input of small pixel data in step 5T12, and the process from step ST5 is repeated until the last reduced pixel data of one line.

If it is the last reduced pixel data of one line in step 8T10, it is further determined in step STI 4 whether it is the last pixel data of one page, and if it is the last data, step ST1
Then, set W-FLAG to "1" and wait for the input of the first reduced pixel data of the first line of the next page (step 5T2).
, if it is not the last data, it waits for input of the first reduced pixel data of the next line (step 5T2).

If the previous line is completely white, the process is carried out as if the previous line was not full day, except that sending the reduced pixel data to the recording unit 4 (step 5T9) and setting W-FLAG to 1" (step 5T4) are not performed. are the same.

That is, it is determined whether the reduced pixel data inputted from the reduction unit 10 is a black pixel (step 5T6), and if it is a black pixel, W-FLAG is set to 0'' in step ST8. This process is performed in step 5TII and step 5T13. Continue for one line.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the reduced pixel data input from the reduction unit 10 to the all-white line skip unit 11 and the result of sending from the all-white line skip 11 to the recording unit 4. In this Figure 3, the "O" mark indicates that the data is being sent to the recording section 4, and the "x" mark is that it is not being sent. If the previous line is a completely white line as shown in this Figure 3, the output is sent to the recording section 4. That line will not be sent out.

FIG. 4 (al) shows a document transmitted by the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, and FIG. 4(b) shows an example of an output result sent to the recording section 4 after the document transmission operation is completed. As is clear from this FIG.
A communication consisting of a reduced schematic diagram of a transmission document created by removing the all-white line indicated by l, a communication created by the communication management report creation unit 8, a start time 2 communication time destination ID number 1 communication mode, and communication results Consists of records.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the reduced schematic diagram of all one page is sent to the recording section 4, but if the number of lines to be sent to the recording section 4 is set in advance in the all-white line skip section 11, the number of lines to be sent to the recording section 4 can be set. It is also possible to not output a reduced schematic diagram with more than a set number of lines.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, the schematic diagram creating section creates a reduced schematic diagram of the transmission document and sends it to the recording section, and the communication record data from the communication management report creating section is sent to the recording section. Since the configuration is configured to record on the same page, there is an advantage that when transmitting a manuscript, the reduced schematic diagram of the transmitted manuscript and the communication result can be recorded on the same page and checked at the end of manuscript transmission.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block connection diagram showing a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing processing by the all-white line skip section in the schematic diagram creation section in the above embodiment, and FIG. An explanatory diagram showing an example of input data to the skip unit and results sent to the recording unit,
FIG. 4 (al is a diagram showing a transmission document applied to the above embodiment, FIG. 4 (bl is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the recording result of the transmission document same as above, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a conventional factor counting device. 1 is a reading section, 2 is an encoding section, 3 is a modulation section, 4 is a recording section, 5 is a decoding section, 6 is a demodulation section, 8 is a communication management report creation section, 9 is a schematic diagram creation section, 10 is a reduction part, and 11 is a full white line skip part. In addition, the same reference numerals in the drawings indicate the same or corresponding parts. Patent applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, ...-Win □ Agent: Patent attorney 1) Hiroshi Sawa Akira, i(,
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Claims (1)

[Claims] A document reading unit that scans the original to be transmitted line-sequentially and converts it into a black and white binary image signal, and an encoding unit that data compresses and encodes the binary image signal output from this reading unit. , a modulation section that modulates the encoded signal output from the encoding section and sends it to the telephone line, a demodulation section that demodulates the modulated signal received from another facsimile device via the telephone line, and this demodulation section. a decoding unit that restores the coded signal demodulated by the above to the original binary image signal, a communication management report creation unit that creates communication record data and outputs the communication record data at the end of communication operation, and a reading unit. and a recording section, the schematic diagram creation section includes a reduction section that performs reduction processing on the binary image signal, and an all-white line skip section that removes all-white lines from the reduced binary image signal. Then, when transmitting the original, the binarized image signal outputted from the decoding unit is outputted page by page onto recording paper, and a reduced schematic diagram of the transmitted original is outputted onto recording paper, and the recording paper is cut. and a recording section that cuts the recording paper after outputting the communication record data output from the communication report creation section on the recording paper at the end of transmission.