JPS61203754A - Communication terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate reception during copying and copying during reception by providing a means for receiving reception of external information while a recording means is recording read information. CONSTITUTION:In receiving an incoming call during copying, a control section 3 applies incoming display to a display section 6, the copying by a printer 4 is continued while reception data is stored in a page memory 3A and this operation is continued until it is discriminated that one page's content of the data is stored in the memory 3A. When one page's content of the reception data is stored, the reception data is printed out by a printer 4 after the end of print of an original during copying is awaited and whether or not the reception is finished is discriminated. When the reception is finished, the incoming display of the display section 6 is erased and the remaining copying is continued, and when it is discriminated that the copying is finished, a message representing the presence of reception is displayed by the display section 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a communication terminal device such as a facsimile machine or a telex machine having a printer capable of high-speed printing.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, printers of communication terminal devices such as facsimile machines and telex machines have been used locally for copying.

However, since the printers of these communication terminal devices were low-speed printers such as thermal printers, the received data could not be printed during copying, and therefore the communication terminal devices refused to receive data until the copying was completed. Alternatively, a method of storing received data in memory until the copying process has finished has been used in the past, but this method requires a large capacity of memory to store the received data, making it unpractical in terms of increased costs. It wasn't.

[Objective] The present invention has been made in order to eliminate the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, and provides a communication terminal device configured to perform copying operations and communication operations of the communication terminal device seemingly independently and in parallel. With the aim of providing high-speed printing, the copying operation and printing of received data are performed in parallel in a time-sharing manner by utilizing the speed of recently developed high-speed printers such as laser beam printers that can print A4 size sheets in about 2 seconds. A printer was used.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the invention.

In this embodiment, when the communication control unit 2 electrically connected to the line 1 receives an incoming call and receives data, the data is stored in the page memory 3A in the control unit 3. Thereafter, the contents of the page memory 3A are output to the printer 4, which is a recording means. The printer 4 performs recording on recording paper according to the output.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a reader that reads the original set on the original table. The image data read by the reader 5 is sent to the control section 3 and stored in its memory 3A. When the read image data is to be transmitted, the data is sent to the communication control section 2 and further sent out from the line l. On the other hand, in the case of so-called copying, the read image data is output to the printer 4.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a display section as an output means, and a predetermined display is made as described later under the control of the control section 3.

Next, an example of the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2 and the time chart of FIG. 3. Note that the control shown in FIG. 2 is performed by the control circuit 3, for example.

If an incoming call is received during copying, step S1 shown in FIG.
In step S2, the control unit 3 displays an incoming call display (reception display) on the display unit 6 (see (C) in FIG. 3).Next, in step S2, copying by the printer 4 is continued while the received data is stored in the page memory 3A. 2 This operation is performed in step S3 when the received data is stored in the page memory 3.
This continues until it is determined that one page has been stored in A (see (A) and (B) in FIG. 3).

When the received data for one page is stored in the page memory 3A in step S3, the received data is output to the printer 4 after waiting for the completion of printing of the document being copied in step S4. Furthermore, in step S5, it is determined whether or not reception has ended.

If the reception has been completed in step S5, the above-mentioned incoming call display on the display unit 6 is turned off in step S6 (see (C) in FIG. 3), and the process proceeds to step S8, where the remaining copying is continued. If it is determined in S9 that copying has been completed, the process proceeds to step S12, where a message indicating that the message has been received is displayed on the display section 6 (see (E) in FIG. 3).On the other hand, in step S5, the message continues to be received. In the next step S7, it is determined whether or not copying has been completed, and if copying has not been completed, step S2
The process returns to step 1 and continues the predetermined processing, and if the copying is completed, normal reception operation is performed in step SIO, and if it is determined that the reception is completed in step Sll, the process advances to step SI2.

In the embodiment, the content displayed on the display unit 6 is only the incoming call display, but in addition to the incoming call display, the number of pages may be displayed at the same time.

Further, the message indicating that the message has been received in step S12 may be displayed on recording paper.
The message indicating that it has been received may be erased when the operator confirms it, or may be erased when the original or recording paper is removed.

[Effects] As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the receiving operation during copying and the copying operation during receiving can be easily performed by taking advantage of the high speed printing operation of the printer.

Therefore, the copy function, which in conventional communication terminal devices had no more than the addition of glue, can be used much more effectively. Furthermore, incoming calls are accepted during copying, and the received document and the copy are recorded in a time-sharing manner, and the reception status of external information during copying is output and displayed on the display, for example, so that communication work and copying work can be separated. Even if there are mixed operations, it is possible to prevent confusion in copying operations, relieve the operator's anxiety, and prevent erroneous operations by the operator. Further, reception and copy operations can be performed without a large capacity memory.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing this embodiment, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a control procedure of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a time chart showing an example of the operation timing of each part of this embodiment. 1... Line, 2... Communication control section, 3... Control section. 3A...Page memory, 4...Printer. 5...Leader.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) Recording means capable of selectively recording received external information and read information; means for accepting reception of the external information while the recording means is recording the read information; and the means. control means for controlling the recording means to record the received external information and the read information in a time-sharing manner when the external information is received; and a control means for controlling the recording means to record the received external information and the read information in a time-sharing manner; A communication terminal device comprising: output means.