JPS5887564A - Copying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To record additional information, such as dates, by contracting an original and forming a blank space. CONSTITUTION:Optional information can be copied in addition to an original, in accordance with a card inserted into the insertion openings of date, advertisement information, circular notice blank to be filled up, and a magnetic card by selectively pushing one of additional information indication buttons A, B, C, D. When a blank part of an picture signal obtained by reading an original is continuous, it is used for the blank of additional information. When there is no space, it cannot be copied. A blank part is forcibly formed by pushing a contraction button 218 to omit one of 7 original scanning lines, and contracting length of the original. The additional information can be located on the upper or lower part of the original by selecting print position buttons 217.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a copying machine that can record additional image information prepared in advance in addition to image information on a document onto a single sheet of paper.

2. Description of the Related Art Copying machines have conventionally been used to reproduce image information written on manuscripts, such as documents and pictures, onto paper within the range.

Therefore, if it is necessary to additionally record other information such as the date of copying on the same sheet, it is necessary to record that information manually or using a recording device such as a printing machine. was there.

Such work was very troublesome. Also, for example, the first
As shown in Copy 1 shown in the figure, the recording area I for characters, etc. of the original
When A extends over almost the entire area as shown by the diagonal line, even if an attempt is made to record additional information, there is often no margin for this purpose.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a copying machine that can actively record additional information in addition to image information on a document. an empty interior detection means for detecting a blank area or a reduction means for reducing the entire document; additional information is recorded in the blank area detected or created by each of the above-mentioned means; and image information on the original is recorded in other areas. The above-mentioned object is achieved by equipping the copying machine with a recording section for recording data.

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to Examples below.

Figure 2 shows the operation panel of this copying machine.The operation panel 2 has an on button 201 for turning on the power to the copying machine, and an off button 202 for turning off the power. ing. When the on button 201 is fully pressed, power is supplied to the inside of the copying machine and the power indicator 203 lights up. At the same time, the A4 size indicator 20.4 or the B4 size indicator 205 lights up depending on the size of the paper set in the paper tray (not shown).

In this state, the operator operates the keyboard 206 to set the number of copies. The set number of copies is displayed in the first display window 2.
0 displayed at 07. After this, if the start button 208 for starting copying is pressed, normal copying will be performed. At this time, the number of copies is sequentially displayed in the second display window 209 as the copying progresses. first and second display windows 207,
When the display contents of 209 match, all copying is completed,
These display contents are reset to zero again.

On the other hand, when the user wishes to display additional information as well, the additional information operation unit 211 is operated before the start button 208 is pressed. Additional information operation section 211
, four types of additional information designation buttons 212 to 215 are provided. Of these, the first to third additional information designation buttons 212 to 214 are buttons for designating only three types of additional information that are often used by users of the copying machine.

For example, the first additional information designation button 212, as shown in FIG. 3A, is a button for designating the date of copying, the number of the copying machine, and the number of pages in the copy to be displayed as additional information. Also, a second additional information specification button 213
As shown in FIG. 3B, is a button for specifying display of a specific advertisement of the company. The third additional information specification button 214 is a button for specifying the format for circulation, as shown in FIG. 3C.

Further, the fourth additional information specification button 215 is a button for specifying all the additional information to be displayed by the magnetic card inserted into the card insertion slot 215. This type of magnetic card is created by the user himself using a special input device, or by copier service stations located all over the country in response to the user's request. When any one of the additional information designation buttons 212 to 215 is pressed, the lamp provided on that button lights up to clearly indicate the designated state. At the same time, the print position designation button 217 and reduction designation button 218 light up, and the two indicators 221 to 224 arranged above these buttons light up cyclically. As shown in FIG. 4, when the user wants to set the additional information recording area IB below the recording area IA of copy 1, the user uses the indicator 22 to point downward.
2 is lit, print position specification button 217
Press. On the other hand, when the user wishes to record additional information above the recording area IA, the print position designation button 217 is pressed when the indicator 221 pointing upward is lit. When the print position designation button 217 is pressed, the button turns off, and the indicator corresponding to the additional information recording section rit remains lit. When the user wants to create the recording position of the additional information by reducing the document, press the reduction designation button 218 when the indicator 223 indicating the reduction status lights up.
Press. If reduction is to be allowed only when there is no margin in the document, the reduction designation button 218 is pressed while the indicator 224 indicating whether or not to reduce is left to the copying agent is lit. In this case as well, the indicator indicating the designated state remains lit, and the reduction designation button 218 turns off.

When the user presses the start button 208 when the operation of the additional information operation unit 211 is completed as described above, the additional information is recorded together with copying of the document. Now, the first
Assume that the additional information specification button 212 is selected, the print position of the additional information is specified at the bottom, and it is specified that the original is to be reduced only when there is no margin, and then the copying machine Explain the operation.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the main parts of the copying machine. When the start button on the operation panel 2 is pressed, a reading start signal 3 is supplied to the reading section 4, and a document placed on a platen (not shown) is read using a rasp scan method. The binarized image signal 5 obtained in this way is written into the memory 6 and simultaneously supplied to the blank detection section 7. The image signals are counted line by line, and the lines where the black signal does not exist at all (
This predetermined number refers to the additional information recording area IB shown in FIG. 4. The determination signal 8 representing this result is supplied to the address control section 9.

The address control unit 9 outputs three types of address information 12 to 14 according to the content of the discrimination signal 8 and the reduction designation signal 11 supplied from the operation panel 2. The first address information 12 is supplied to the memory 6. Then, the address where the protrusion is to be performed is specified. The first address information 12 specifies addresses as follows depending on each case.

(1) When the reduction instruction signal 11 instructs reduction of the document, an address for reduction in the sub-scanning direction is specified regardless of the content of the discrimination signal 8. For example, addresses are specified such that reading out the image signal is omitted at a rate of one line out of every seven lines.

(11) When the reduction instruction signal 11 leaves whether or not to reduce the document depending on the state of the document, the content of the determination signal 8 is followed. In other words, if there is a margin line corresponding to the additional information recording area IB at the front or rear edge of the document, a blank line is set at the front or rear edge according to the specification of the print position cover designation button 217. Specify the address to be 0
In this case, the original is not reduced. Furthermore, if there is no all-white line corresponding to the additional information recording area IB, the same address designation as previously described in (1) is performed. When the additional information operation unit 211 is operated as described above,
The latter address designation shown in (11) is performed.

As a result, when the first address information 12 is supplied, the memory 6 reads out the image signal at the specified address.
The read image signal 16 is written into the page memory 17 according to the second address information 13 output from the address control section 9. In this operation example, the print position of the additional information is specified downward. ing. Therefore, the image signal 16 is written into the page memory 17 in a memory area corresponding to the recording head IA shown in FIG.

When such a write operation is completed, the address control section 9 supplies the third address information 14 to the image file 18. The image file 18 selects a storage area in response to an additional information designation signal 19 supplied from the operation panel 2, and outputs the data written in the area to the page memory 17 as additional information 21. At this time, the second address information 13 specifies the entire storage area corresponding to the additional information recording area IB (FIG. 4), so the additional information 21 is written in this area of the page memory 17.Additional information designation signal 19 The relationship between this and the additional information 21 output from the image file 18 is as follows.0 (1) When the additional information designation signal 19 is 1, the first additional information designation button 212 (FIG. 2) is pressed. When the content indicates
Additional information as shown in FIG. 3A is output. here"
Contents of the copy date''' column °'1981.11.01
” is a clock signal 23 output from the clock mechanism 22 in the copying machine that is sequentially written into the corresponding area in the image file 18. The clock signal 23 is sent to the operation panel 2 (Fig. is also supplied and displayed as the current date in the third display window 225.The content "EO452" in the column "Copy machine number" is a number indicating which copy machine was used to copy the image. The information is written in advance as fixed information in the file 18.

For example, "E" represents the office, "0452" represents the management number. Also, the contents of the "Page" column "15"
is the number of the original to be continuously copied, and is created based on the output signal of a counter that counts in conjunction with opening and closing of the platen.

(11) When the additional information designation signal 19 indicates that the second or third additional information designation button 213, 214 has been pressed, the additional information shown in FIG. 3B or C is output. These additional information are written in the image file 18 in advance as fixed information.

(tit) When the additional information designation signal 19 indicates that the fourth additional information designation button 215 has been pressed, the additional information 24 written on the magnetic card inserted into the card insertion slot 216 (Fig. 2) is displayed as an image. If this content is output as is to the page memory 17 as the additional information 21 and the additional information operation section 211 is operated as described above, the additional information shown in the first (1) will be changed to the page memory 17. The data is written to the corresponding address in the memory 17.

In the manner described above, the image information and additional information of the original are written into the page memory 17. When such writing is completed, the laser printer 25 performs a copying operation for the instructed number of copies in accordance with the print number signal 26 supplied from the operation panel 2. conduct. That is, every time one copy is made, a signal 27 for instructing the page memory 17 to read all is supplied, and a recording operation is performed based on the read image signal 28 to create one full copy. In this way, the third
A recording surface with additional information written on it as shown in FIG. Can increase the commercial value of copies0

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 2 is a plan view showing an example of the proportion of image information of a document in a copy, and Figures 2 to 5 show an embodiment of the present invention, of which Figure 2 shows the operation panel of a copying machine. FIG. 3A'-C is a plan view showing an example of additional information, FIG. 4 is a plan view showing the arrangement of the original and additional information in copying,
FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the copying machine. 1...Copy 2...Operation panel 4.
...Reading unit 6...Memory 7...
... Blank detection section 9 ... Address control section 17 ... Page memory 22 ... Clock mechanism 25 ... Laser printer applicant Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. agent Patent attorney Umeo Yamauchi

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Blank detection means for detecting blank areas on a document or reduction means for reducing a document, and a blank area of a predetermined size or larger detected or created by either of the above two means. , additional information different from the image information on the original is recorded in a predetermined part of the copy paper corresponding to this, and image information on the original is recorded in a part of the copy paper corresponding to an area other than the blank area. A copying machine comprising a recording means for recording. 2. The copying machine according to claim 1, wherein the reduction means reduces the document by thinning out the image information read by the rusk scan method at a ratio of one line to a plurality of lines. . 3. Copying 11° according to claim 1, characterized in that part or all of the additional information indicates the time at which the original is to be copied.