JPS63227167A - Mixed mode communication terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate a data production of a mixed mode communication terminal equipment, and to execute a smooth communication operation by depressing a transmission key, and directly transmitting a data read by a reader to a facsimile. CONSTITUTION:When a facsimile transmission switch 63 is depressed, a communication management program stored in a program memory 23 starts a reader 10 and stores a data in an image memory 25. Also, by using an image compression unit 22, the data stored in the memory 25 is encoded. Moreover, as for this encoded data, an identifier required for communication to a header part being information required for decoding of the data and a receiving destination is given by the communication management program, and said data is directly transmitted from the memory 25. In such a way, even by the mixed mode communication terminal equipment, at the time of transmitting an original as it is, it can be transmitted 'directly' from an image reader, by using a facsimile transmission switch, therefore, a complicated operation becomes unnecessary.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a data transmitting device for a mixed mode communication terminal device.

[Conventional example]

The data handled by the mixed mode communication terminal device includes character code data and graphic image data. Furthermore, the data structure of a document is divided into a part indicating the structure of the entire document (document profile), a data part that can be commonly used within the document (generic block), and the main body of the document (specific block), depending on the purpose.

Furthermore, the other party terminals that can send and receive data include G4 facsimile class 3 (mixed mode communication terminal), G4 facsimile class 2/1, and Teletex.

Conventionally, this type of device has character code data from the keyboard,
Input the figure image data from the image reader,
Users have divided each data into the above-mentioned document components (document profile, generic block, and specific block) according to the paper and purpose of transmitting the data using an image display device such as a CRT.

For this reason, when the destination is a class 1 terminal, which is the popular version of the G4 facsimile, instructions are given to indicate that character code data that cannot be handled by class 1 devices, as well as document profiles and generic blocks, are unnecessary. The disadvantage is that it requires complicated operations. Furthermore, even when it is desired to immediately send a handwritten manuscript, there is a drawback in that the data read by an image reader must be displayed on a CRT and an operator can manipulate it to create a layout before it can be sent.

〔the purpose〕

It is an object of the present invention to eliminate the drawbacks of the above-mentioned conventional example, and to facilitate the creation of data for a mixed mode communication terminal device, thereby enabling smooth communication operations.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the above embodiment.

The reader 10 reads a predetermined document and outputs an electrical signal.

The facsimile body 20 includes a reader/printer interface 21, an image compression unit (hereinafter referred to as CUJ) 22, a program memory (hereinafter referred to as ``PMEM'') 23, and a pit move unit (hereinafter referred to as ``BMUJ'') 24. , image memory (hereinafter referred to as [IMKM J) 25, and video RA
M (hereinafter referred to as "VRAM J") 26, a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as [CPUJ]) 27, a bus 29, and a communication control unit (hereinafter referred to as [CICU]).
J) has 30.

The engineering CU 22 compresses or expands data, and in order to increase the encoding rate, two-dimensional compression (high compression) is used.
has been adopted.

The PMI1mM23 has a QS program and an application program memory area for controlling the input/output devices provided around the facsimile main body 2o and each unit in the facsimile main body, and also has a memory area for converting character codes into image data. It has a font memory area of .

Furthermore, the PMWM25 has a memory management unit (MMKM), and the CC! U
It also has a work area as a buffer for transmission data to be transmitted via the ccty 50 and stored from the ccty 30 to the hard disk. Note that the buffer described above is for adjusting the speed of the disk, line, etc. It also stores the code data of the text written by the key 61.

The BMU 24 performs image editing (image processing) in the CRT 60, and enlarges, reduces, rotates, moves, or cuts a predetermined image.

■MKM 25 has 4 megabytes and can store images from the league, images edited by BMU 24, data decompressed by ICU 22, word processing code data using key code characters, and mixed data. , or data obtained by converting a character code into an image.

Here, in the case of mixed data, an identification code is attached to the image block and character block and stored. Further, the MEM 25 is used to match the speed of the league 210 and the line 40 by temporarily storing predetermined data, and the VRAM 26 is used to store image data to be displayed on the CRT 60 in the form of a bitmap code.

Furthermore, a hard disk device 50 and a floppy disk device 51 are provided as external storage devices. Although these devices are non-volatile memories, backup memories may be used as the non-volatile memories.

The keyboard 61 is used to input characters and the like and to specify a position on the CRT 60 using a cursor.

62 is one of the pointing devices. The facsimile transmission switch 66 is the object of the present invention, and
4. In the above system, the facsimile transmission switch 6 instructs the direct facsimile transmission operation.
3 is pressed, the communication management program stored in the PMKM 23 activates the reader 10 and stores the data in the image memory 25. Furthermore, the image compression unit 22 is used to encode the data stored in the image memory 25. This encoded data is further given a part of the header, which is information necessary for decoding the data at the reception destination, and an identifier necessary for communication by the communication management program, and is directly transmitted from the image memory 25.

Figure 3 (a) Image combination unit 2
Of the data encoded by 2, there is only the encoded data of a. The length is returned as a response to the program that activated the image compression unit 22.

FIG. 3(b) shows transmission data stored in the image memory 25 created by G4 facsimile simple transmission. b is communication information consisting of a communication command identifier C and a command length d. e is a header section that is data information, and consists of a data identifier f, a data length g, and h in which data attributes are stored.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the G, 17 axis direct transmission operation in the above embodiment. The following flowchart is executed by the cPU 27 based on a program stored in the PMKM 23.

Detect whether the facsimile transmission switch 63 is turned on (Sl), and if it is turned on, display a message to input the destination line subscriber number on the CRT 60 (S2).
. After the line subscriber number is input from the keyboard 61,
Evaluate whether the correct input has been made (G3). When the correct line subscriber number is input, a message is displayed on the CRT 60 to instruct the user to set the original to be transmitted on the reader (S4). After confirming that the original has been set (S5), the reader 10 reads the transmitted original into the image memory 25 (86).
, is compressed and encoded by the image compression unit 22 (S7). A part of the control code is added to the compressed and encoded data, and the data is sent to the other party's terminal G4 facsimile (G8). If there is a next page in the transmitted manuscript, a transmitted manuscript set message is displayed on the CRT 60, otherwise a termination message is displayed and the process ends (89.E+10).

Although a switch is used in the above embodiment, selection of a message displayed on a CRT using a pointing device may also be used.

〔effect〕

As explained above, even in the mixed mode communication terminal device, when transmitting a document as it is, by using the facsimile transmission switch, the facsimile transmission switch can be used to transmit the document directly from the image reader, which eliminates the need for complicated operations.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of this embodiment, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing data of this embodiment, and Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the main structure of this embodiment. It is a flowchart figure of an Example. 10 is the reader, 2o is the facsimile body, 27 is the CPU
, 40 is the line, 5o is the hard disk device, 60 is C
RT, 7o is a printer, and 66 is a facsimile transmission switch.

Claims (1)

[Claims] It has a transmission key for instructing transmission, a reading means for reading a document, and a communication means, and when the transmission key is pressed, the data read by the reading means is sent to the communication means. A mixed mode communication terminal device is characterized in that it can directly transmit encoded data to a facsimile machine without editing it.