JPH04345260A - Transmission method for facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely send an original to a desired transmission destination with a simple transmission operation with respect to the transmission method of the facsimile equipment. CONSTITUTION:A specific transmission destination telephone number is entered in advance from an operation section 12 and registered in a storage section 15 and setting of the transmission original is detected by a read processing section 13 to allow a communication control section 17 to make dialing to the registered transmission destination so as to send the original automatically. Moreover, a transmission time zone and a transmission destination telephone number corresponding thereto are registered and the original is sent automatically to the transmission destination corresponding to the time when the original is set. Moreover, when the operation section 12 designates an optional transmission destination telephone number, the original is sent to the designated destination and when no designation is given, the original is sent automatically to the transmission destination registered in advance.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile transmission method, and more particularly to a facsimile transmission method for automatically transmitting a document to a predetermined destination registered in advance.

0002

[Prior Art] Conventional facsimile transmission methods use, for example, one-touch keys in which a destination telephone number is registered in advance for each key, in order to reduce the operator's operations when transmitting a document. There is a method in which the sending operation is completed simply by pressing this one-touch key.

[0003] This one-touch key system greatly reduced the number of transmission operations that had been required up until then. In addition to the above, it is also possible to write the destination of the document in a predetermined position on the document paper using a mark or text, and use an optical mark reader (OMR).
tical mark reader) and optical character reader (OCR: Optical Character
There was a device that automatically read the destination and made a call.

0004

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in such a conventional facsimile transmission method, even pressing a one-touch key becomes troublesome when the recipient is always determined. In other words, there is a demand for a simpler operation than the one-touch key method.

[0005] Furthermore, the method of automatically reading the destination by writing marks or letters on manuscript paper, etc. requires writing characters or marks that can be identified by the reading device on the manuscript surface in advance, which is time-consuming. There's a problem. In order to meet these demands, it is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile transmission method that can reliably transmit a document to a desired destination with extremely simple operations.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 registers a destination telephone number of a transmission document in a facsimile device, and sets the transmission document in the facsimile device. This system is characterized by automatically sending a document by calling a registered destination phone number.

[0007] Furthermore, in order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 2 registers the transmission time zone of the transmitted document in the facsimile machine, registers the destination telephone number corresponding to the transmission time zone, and This system is characterized in that by setting the facsimile machine into a facsimile machine, a call is made to the destination telephone number corresponding to the set transmission time period and the document is automatically transmitted.

[0008] Furthermore, in order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 3 provides, in the facsimile transmission method according to claim 1 or claim 2, when the destination telephone number of the transmission document is specified, Call the destination, send the document,
If no destination is specified, the registered destination phone number is called and the document is automatically sent.

[0009]

According to the invention as set forth in claim 1 above, simply by setting a transmission document, a call is made to the registered destination telephone number and the document is automatically transmitted. Therefore, a document can be sent with only a very simple sending operation, and since it is sent to a pre-registered destination, there is no possibility of sending the document to the wrong destination due to erroneous input.

[0010]Furthermore, according to the invention set forth in claim 2,
If the destination of the document is determined by the time zone, by registering the destination phone number according to the time zone, you can simply set the document and send it to the destination according to the time zone. The original will be sent automatically. Therefore, the document can be automatically sent to the desired destination with just the simple operation of setting the document, there is no need to make mistakes when entering the destination, and the document can be sent to multiple destinations depending on the time of day. .

[0011]Furthermore, according to the invention described in claim 3,
If the destination telephone number of the transmitted document is arbitrarily specified using, for example, a numeric keypad or one-touch key, the document will be sent to that specified destination, and if the destination is not specified, it will not be registered in claim 1 or claim 2. will be automatically sent to the specified destination. In this way, since the destination designation mode and the automatic transmission mode can be freely selected, the document can be sent to any destination, there is no mistake in the destination, and the sending operation can be simplified.

0012

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be explained below based on the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention. First, the configuration will be explained. As shown in FIG. 1, the system control unit 11
Controls the entire facsimile machine system.C
PU (Central Processing Uni)
t) is doing this.

The operation section 12 is a key input device composed of switches necessary for operation, and also includes a display device, a lamp display device, etc. that visually displays the status of the system to the operator. This operation unit 12 is used to input data and display the status, and in this embodiment, input for registering or specifying a destination telephone number, or input for registering a transmission time zone is performed.

The reading processing section 13 performs reading by optically scanning an image of a document to be transmitted and converting it into an electrical signal, and outputs binary image data. The reading processing unit 13 of this embodiment also detects whether or not a document has been set. The write processing unit 14 processes the received binary image data using an image processing unit 16 (described later) and prints the data on recording paper.

The storage unit 15 is a ROM (Read Only M
memory), a work area memory necessary for the system control unit 11 to perform control, and a RAM for temporary storage.
(Random Access Memory), and has memory for image management and memory for image information. In this embodiment, it is used to register the destination telephone number and transmission time zone.

The image processing section 16 performs compression, expansion, reduction, enlargement, or conversion of linear density of image data. The communication control unit 17 is connected to a network control unit of an interface connecting an external line such as PSTN or ISDN to a modem, and a G3
/G4 protocol, and has a function of making a call operation.

The above-mentioned components are connected to each other by a system bus 18 for exchanging various data, and constitute a facsimile machine 19. Next, the effect will be explained. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the transmission operation in the invention according to claim 1. This will be explained below in conjunction with the configuration diagram of FIG.

[0018] If there is always one person to whom documents are sent using the facsimile machine, the telephone number of that person is registered. In the registration operation, first, the telephone number of the destination is input using the operation unit 12 in FIG. 1, and is stored in the storage unit 15 via the system bus 18. Next, as shown in FIG. 2, in step 100, the reading processing section 13 detects whether or not a transmission document has been set. If the original is not set, the process returns to the start; if the original is set, the process moves to step 101.

In step 101, a call is made to the registered destination telephone number and transmission of the manuscript is started. That is, the system control unit 11 reads the destination telephone number from the storage unit 15 and requests the communication control unit 17 to make a call. The communication control unit 17 makes a call to the destination and connects to the line, and then transmits the image data of the transmission document. The image data to be transmitted is digital data obtained by electrically processing a set original document in the reading processing section 13.

As described above, in the facsimile transmission method according to claim 1, just by setting the transmission document, it is automatically transmitted to the destination registered in advance, so that the transmission operation is extremely simple and there is no possibility of input errors. No transmission errors will occur. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the transmission operation in the invention according to claim 2.

[0021] If the destination to which the document is sent by the facsimile machine changes depending on the time zone, the transmission time zone and the destination telephone number corresponding to that time zone are registered. In the registration operation, a transmission time slot is first set using the operation unit 12 in FIG. Then, as shown in FIG. 3, in step 102, the reading processing section 13 detects whether or not a transmission document has been set. If an original has been set, the process moves to step 103.

[0022] In step 103, the destination telephone number corresponding to the registered time zone is picked up. Then, in step 104, transmission to the picked up destination is started. The calling operation is the same as that in claim 1 above, so a description thereof will be omitted. In this manner, in the facsimile transmission method according to the second aspect of the present invention, automatic transmission is performed by selecting a desired destination according to the time period in which the transmission document is set. Therefore, by simply setting the original, it is possible to send the original to a destination corresponding to the time period in which the original is set. Also in this embodiment, since a call is made to a pre-registered transmission telephone number, no transmission errors occur.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating the transmission operation according to the third aspect of the invention. In claim 1 or claim 2 above, if you want to send the document to a destination other than the destination registered in advance, you can accept any destination phone number designation entered from a normal numeric keypad or one-touch key, and then send it. do it like this. If no destination is specified, the message is automatically sent to the registered destination.

First, similar to claim 1 or claim 2,
A predetermined destination telephone number or a destination telephone number that matches the transmission time period is input in advance using the operation section 12 and is stored in the storage section 15. Next, as shown in FIG. 4, in step 105, the reading processing section 13 detects whether or not a transmission document has been set. Then, the process moves to step 106 only when an original is set.

In step 106, the system control unit 11 determines whether or not the start switch of the operation unit 12 has been pressed.
The process moves to step 107 only if the start switch is pressed. In step 107, it is determined whether or not a destination telephone number has been input. If so, in step 108, transmission is performed to the destination telephone number.

[0026] If the destination telephone number is not input in step 107, the process moves to step 109, and the process is automatically performed according to the pre-registered destination telephone number, in the same way as explained in claim 1 or claim 2 above. Transmission takes place. In this manner, in the facsimile transmission method according to claim 3, by specifying a desired destination using a numeric keypad, one-touch key, etc., a document can be sent to that destination, and there is no need to specify a destination. If the document is sent automatically to the destination registered in advance, the document can be reliably sent to the desired destination with only the minimum number of transmission operations required.

[0027]

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the invention set forth in claim 1, the original can be reliably sent to the desired destination registered in advance by simply setting the original. can be sent. Furthermore, according to the invention as claimed in claim 2, the document is reliably sent to a desired destination registered in advance according to the time zone in which the document is set, so the destination is determined according to the transmission time zone. In this case, the sending operation is simple and convenient, and there is no chance of sending the wrong destination.

[0028] Furthermore, according to the invention set forth in claim 3, it is possible to send to any destination other than the destination registered in claim 1 or claim 2, and when the destination is not specified. Since the transmission operation is performed after returning to the automatic transmission mode, the document can be reliably sent to the desired destination with a simple transmission operation.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a transmission operation according to claim 1.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a transmission operation according to claim 2;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a transmission operation according to claim 3;

[Explanation of symbols]

11 System control section 12　　　　Operation section 13 Read processing section 14 Write processing section 15 Memory section 16 Image processing section 17 Communication control section 18 System bus 19 Facsimile machine

Claims (3)

[Claims] Claim 1: By registering a destination telephone number of a transmission document in a facsimile device and setting the transmission document in the facsimile device, the document can be automatically transmitted by calling the registered destination telephone number. Features of facsimile transmission method. Claim 2: By registering the transmission time zone of the transmission document in the facsimile device, registering the destination phone number corresponding to the transmission time zone, and setting the transmission document in the facsimile device, the transmission time zone that has been set can be set. A facsimile transmission method characterized by automatically transmitting a document by calling a destination telephone number according to the number. [Claim 3] In the facsimile transmission method according to claim 1 or claim 2, when the destination telephone number of the transmission document is specified, a call is made to the destination, the document is sent, and the destination is called. If no designation is made, the facsimile transmission method is characterized in that the document is automatically transmitted by calling the registered destination telephone number.