JPH077612A - Transmitting method for facsimile - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent information from being transmitted to an erroneous transmitting destination, to realize accurate FAX transmission and to improve FAX transmission speed by attaching the telephone number of the transmitting destination and an identification mark on transmission paper. CONSTITUTION:The telephone number (facsimile number) 3 of the transmitting destination is attached to the head part (paper header part) 2 of transmission paper 1, and the identification mark 4 consisting of a ractangular mark painted black and a rectangular mark painted white are attached to the head of the number 3. The identification mark 4 is attached as the identification mark for making an operator identify and recognize that facsimile is to be transmitted to the transmitting destination and the number 3 adjacent to the mark 4 as that for making the operator identify and recognize it as the facsimile number. When the identification mark 4 exists, the facsimile number 3 is read as image information, and the facsimile number 3 is recognized as character information. Then, automatic dialling is executed based on the character information and facsimile is transmitted to the transmitting destination.

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 telephone number of a transmission destination at the leading end of a transmission sheet of the facsimile and the fact that the facsimile should be transmitted to the transmission destination. The present invention relates to a technique in which a destination telephone number is automatically dialed at the time of facsimile transmission by adding an identification mark to enable facsimile transmission.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the case of facsimile transmission, even if the telephone number of the transmission destination is written on the transmission sheet such as a slip or a manuscript to be transmitted, it is necessary to manually dial the telephone number again. Become. Even if you have registered the number in advance (one-touch dial, speed dial), indicate the registration number, do not press the button,
You will have to dial again. Even if you set the sending sheet such as the sending slip or the sending original to be sent to the facsimile and store it in the memory, it may be automatically dialed after the memory, and the transmission will be performed. Even so, the dialing of the destination telephone number is still necessary.

[0003]

Therefore, in such a conventional technique, it is easy to make an error in manual dialing,
It may be sent to the wrong destination, or it may take time to dial the destination telephone number. The present invention is intended to provide a technique suitable for facsimile transmission without the drawbacks of the conventional technique. Further, other objects and novel features of the present invention will be apparent from the following description.

[0004]

The outline of the representative ones of the inventions disclosed in the present application will be briefly described as follows. That is, the above-mentioned purpose is to send a sheet such as a sending slip or a sending document to be sent by facsimile,
This is achieved by adding the telephone number of the transmission destination and an identification mark capable of recognizing that the facsimile should be transmitted to the transmission destination.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. 1A is a plan view of a main part of a transmission sheet showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1B is a plan view of a main part of a transmission sheet showing another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a plan view of a main part of a transmission sheet showing still another embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the Example of this invention. As shown in Example 1 and FIG. 1A, the telephone number (facsimile number) 3 of the transmission destination is attached to the head portion (paper header portion) 2 of the transmission paper 1, and the head of the number 3 is attached. An identification mark 4 consisting of a black filled square mark and a white filled square mark is attached to the. Further, a similar identification mark 4 is attached to the tail of the number 3. As shown in FIG. 5, the paper 1 is set on the document table 6 of the facsimile 5 (FIG. 4, F0). When the paper 1 is set and the presence or absence of the setting is detected by the paper set detection sensor 7 (FIG. 4, F1), the paper 1 is automatically transferred to the facsimile 5
To send inside. Paper header section 2 of sent paper 1
A sensor (sheet leading edge detection sensor) 8 that stops the delivery of the sheet in accordance with the length of the sheet is activated (FIG. 4, F2), and the image reading section 9 causes the identification mark 4 in the sheet header section 2 to be detected.
And the facsimile number 3 is read as image information (F3 in FIG. 4). The identification mark 4 is provided as an identification mark for allowing the destination to identify and recognize that the facsimile should be transmitted, and the numeral 3 adjacent to the identification mark 4 for identifying the facsimile number of the destination. If the identification mark 4 is present, the facsimile number 3 is read as image information, and the facsimile number 3 is recognized as character information (FIGS. 4F4 and 4F).
5). As a device for reading the image information and converting it into the character information, there are, for example, an OCR (optical character recognition) device and a MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) device. The character information is output from the central processing unit inside the image reading unit 9 to the network control unit (NCU, network control unit) of the telephone (FIG. 4, F6).
Automatically dialed based on the character information (Fig. 4, F
7) Then, the facsimile (FAX) is transmitted to the destination (F8 in FIG. 4). In this case, it is advisable to display the information input to the NCU on the display unit and automatically dial after checking. Also, for automatic dialing based on the converted character information, the present invention can utilize the modem or coupler technology used to connect a personal computer to a telephone. On the other hand, when the identification mark 4 does not exist, the facsimile number 3 is manually dialed (see FIG. 4,
F9), the start button is pressed (FIG. 4, F10), and FAX transmission is performed by dialing (FIG. 4, F8).

Next, referring to the block diagram shown in FIG. 4, the paper set detection unit 70 equipped with the paper set detection sensor 7 detects whether or not the paper 1 is set, and automatically sends the paper 1 to the top of the paper. In the automatic delivery position detection unit 80 including the detection sensor 8, the delivery is stopped and the paper header reading unit 9
At 0, the identification mark 4 and the facsimile number 3 are read as image information, the converted character information is output to the NCU 10,
Automatically dialed.

Embodiment 2 In the above FAX transmission, when it is desired to confirm the destination, as shown in FIG. 1 (B), at the head portion (paper header portion) 2 of the transmission paper 1, the telephone number of the transmission destination (facsimile) No. 3 on the tail of FIG. 1 (A)
Unlike the above, in addition to the black-filled square mark and the white-filled square mark, for example, the identification mark 4 is further provided with a black-filled square mark. In this case, since the transmission destination number and confirmation display are displayed on the display unit 11, after confirmation, the start button 13 of the operation panel 12 is pressed.

Embodiment 3 and FIG. 2 show the case of transmitting to a plurality of destinations, in which a plurality of destination telephone numbers (facsimile numbers) 3 and identification marks 4 as shown in FIG. Simultaneous transmission to multiple destinations is possible. Further, in this case, a plurality of identification marks 4 and different destination telephone numbers (facsimile numbers) 3 are attached to one sheet of A4 paper at appropriate intervals, so that one sheet of A4 paper, for example, A The part can be sent to the person called "A", the part B to the person "O", the part C to the person "hei", and the part of one A4 sheet can be faxed by automatic dialing.

Fourth Embodiment Further, in the present invention, although not shown, different pages of the paper are provided with the above-mentioned destination telephone number (facsimile number) 3 and identification mark 4, respectively. It is also possible to send the FAX to different destinations for different pages.

Fifth Embodiment In the present invention, although not shown, for example, assuming that there are five sheets of paper, for example, the first and second sheets have the telephone numbers (facsimiles) of the above-mentioned destinations. 3) and the identification mark 4 are not attached, for example, when the destination telephone number (facsimile number) 3 and the identification mark 4 are attached to the third sheet, dial according to the usual means and press the start button. Switching is performed even during transmission, and the FAX can be transmitted to a different destination from the middle.

The present invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Needless to say. For example,
In the above-described embodiment, the example in which the identification mark 4 composed of the black-filled square mark and the white-filled square mark is attached is shown, but another identification mark such as a triangle may be used.

[0012]

The effects obtained by the typical ones of the inventions disclosed in the present application will be briefly described as follows. That is, according to the present invention, since the telephone number (facsimile number) of the transmission destination and the identification mark are attached to the transmission paper at the time of FAX transmission, an error unlike the case of manual dialing is less likely to occur It is possible to prevent the fax from being sent to the destination, and to enable accurate fax transmission. Also, it is possible to prevent the dialing of the telephone number of the destination from being time-consuming.
The X transmission speed can be improved. Further, as illustrated in the embodiment, extremely convenient use is possible such that a partial portion in one A4 sheet can be FAX-transmitted by automatic dialing.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a plan view of a main part of a transmission paper showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1B is a plan view of a main part of a transmission paper showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a main part of a transmission sheet showing still another embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention,

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Transmission paper 2 ... Leading part (paper header part) 3 ... Phone number (facsimile number) of destination 4 ... Identification mark 5 ... Facsimile 6 ... Manuscript table 7 ... Paper set detection sensor 8 ... Paper top detection sensor 9 Image read unit 10 NCU 11 Display unit 12 Operation panel 13 Start button 70 Paper set detection unit 80 Automatic feed position detection unit 90 Paper header Section reading section

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An identification mark and a transmission destination telephone number of a transmission sheet having a transmission destination telephone number and an identification mark capable of recognizing that a facsimile should be transmitted to the transmission destination, and the transmission destination telephone number is read. A method for transmitting a facsimile, which automatically dials based on the identification mark and the telephone number of the destination and transmits the facsimile to the destination. 2. A head part of a transmission paper having a telephone number of a destination and an identification mark for recognizing that the facsimile should be transmitted to the destination is automatically attached to the leading part set in the facsimile. Sending, reading the identification mark at the beginning and the destination telephone number as image information, recognizing the destination telephone number as character information, automatically dialing based on the character information, and transmitting the facsimile to the destination. The method of transmitting a facsimile according to claim 1, wherein: