KR0170664B1 - Touch screen driving method and apparatus thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a facsimile device using a touch screen and a method of operating the device. The apparatus and method may display the message to be sent or edited using the contact screen panel, perform the editing of the message using the menu appearing on the contact screen panel, and send the message using the edit and send selection menu. Therefore, if the file needs to be modified many times, it is convenient because no manual work is required, and the interface between the user and the facsimile is easy to use, and it is convenient to use. It is small and can be carried by attaching a battery.

Description

Facsimile transmission device using the touch screen and operating method of the touch screen for the same

1 is a schematic diagram illustrating communication between conventional bidirectional telex transmission systems.

2 is a schematic diagram illustrating communication between conventional two-way personal computer transmission systems.

3 is a schematic diagram illustrating communication between conventional bidirectional facsimile transmission systems.

4 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus using a touch screen according to the present invention.

5 shows the appearance of one embodiment according to a facsimile device using a touch screen according to the present invention.

6 is a state transition diagram for explaining the state transition of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile transmission system, and more particularly, to a facsimile transmission device for editing, retrieving, transmitting, and receiving an original using a touch screen, and a method of operating a contact screen therefor.

1 is a schematic diagram for explaining communication between conventional two-way telex transmission systems, which is composed of a telex 10, a telephone line 12, a keyboard 14, and a print paper 16. As shown in FIG.

2 is a schematic diagram for explaining communication between two-way personal computer transmission systems, which is composed of a line 12 composed of a telephone line or a LAN, a personal computer 18, and a printer 20 of a personal computer. .

3 is a schematic diagram for explaining communication between conventional two-way facsimile transmission systems, and is composed of a telephone line 12, a recording sheet 22, a fax machine 24, and a printer 26. As shown in FIG.

Hereinafter, data communication between conventional transmission systems will be described with reference to the attached drawings 1, 2 and 3 as follows.

Over the past few years, technologies have been developed for transmitting alpha-numeric data between two points over a telephone line for commercial, personal and military use. It is commercially available today. For example, ten years ago, the general method as shown in FIG. 1 was used for fast hard copy data transfer. Before that, when you wanted to send messages for your business, you had to use radio-grams, cable-grams, and tele-grams through external agencies. But with the advent of telex, an office with a teles machine 10 connected to a telephone line 12 could send a message written to any place in the world. Each telex 10 has its own number, just like regular telephone numbers, and when the receiver's number is called, the receiver answers the call and a telephone connection is made between the two telex machines. Therefore, anything typed on the telex keyboard 14 was printed simultaneously on the printer paper 16 of the transmission device and the printer paper 16 of the receiver.

The first Telex machines were uncomfortable, large and noisy due to their mechanical construction. The advent of microcomputers, however, made it possible to edit materials on telex machines and to vary their functions to display messages sent on CRT displays. But before these new telex machines showed to the public, two electrical disciplines emerged that nailed Telex as the most common and popular of communications, firstly as shown in Figure 2 The emergence of low-cost personal computers using modems. The advent of such a device eliminated the need for telex, which is why, when telex is not used for its own purposes, the personal computers 18 are the primary function of word processing or other auxiliary functions, as opposed to just occupying space. Could. In the rare case that a message should be sent, the message is entered, edited and sent to another personal computer 10 via telephone line 12 to be printed on the printer 20 of the personal computer.

The facsimile (Fax) came as a temporary substitute for this telex. As shown in FIG. 3, the message is scanned, digitized, transmitted over a telephone line, and inserted into any fax machine 24 by the receiving fax machine 24 from the printer 26 to the printer. Could be Fax transmission has been used for some time without the public's knowledge due to the slow growth. But later faxing quickly gained recognition as a useful and practical alternative to Telex.

Despite the advantages of facsimile data transmission, there are examples where the fax mode for entering data is not practical. For example, because its operation is complicated, users need to know how to use the fax in advance, and it is still bulky in space, and when modifying or editing a fax to send, It is cumbersome to rewrite the cover sheet, which is a fax paper, and to inject the paper into the fax, and the standard format that is frequently used among the cover sheets to be sent must be copied and sent every time. There was an increase in cost and inconvenience for the user.

An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile transmission apparatus using a touch screen that allows a user to edit a message transmitted to another facsimile via a telephone line using a contact screen and transmit the edited message in order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problem. It is.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile transmission apparatus using a small, portable touch screen to solve the above conventional problems.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method of operating a contact screen in a facsimile transmission device using the contact screen according to the present invention.

In order to achieve the above object, the facsimile transmission system using the touch screen according to the present invention is a menu of various functions selected by editing a message including a work of editing an original, and touching a user's hand or other tool for transmission and reception. And contact screen means for displaying the messages and the messages, creating a message for transmission or editing by writing letters, numbers, symbols and pictures by the contact, a program of the function menu and a plurality of user files. Storage means capable of inputting the message to be transmitted from the outside, input / output means for transmitting the received or edited message to another facsimile through a printout or a telephone line, and connected to the contact screen means, storage means, and input / output means, respectively. To connect with each other, to control each other, Control means for controlling the text to be edited or output to the outside by a telephone line or a print, and an interface connected between the control means and the telephone line to establish a telephone connection so that the message is transmitted or received through the telephone line. A means is provided.

In the facsimile transmission apparatus for achieving the above another object, there is a method of using the contact screen according to the present invention for receiving, editing or transmitting an original, the editing and transmission and reception of the message of the original including modification work Displaying a variety of function menus selected by the touch of a user's hand or other tool, and preparing contact screen means for creating the message to be transmitted or edited by writing letters, numbers, symbols and pictures by the touch; And preparing a program of the function menu and storage means for storing a plurality of user files, inputting the message to be transmitted from outside, or transmitting the received or edited message to another facsimile through a printout or a telephone line. Preparing an input / output means for transmitting the message; The input / output step, an editing step of editing the message using the contact screen means, a telephone connection step of making a telephone connection to transmit or receive the message from another facsimile, and the storage means And a message reading step of sequentially reading the message stored in the message.

4 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus using a touch screen according to the present invention, which includes a contact screen 30, a storage unit 32, an input / output unit 34, an interface unit 36, a motor 38, and a battery ( 40, the operation display unit 42 and the control unit 44.

5 is an external view of an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus using a touch screen according to the present invention, a menu liquid crystal 68 for displaying a function menu, a pen 50, an iconized paper image menu 52 for function menus, File View Menu (54), Data Save Menu (56), Online Keyboard Menu (58), Pen Input Menu (60), Up / Down Left / Right Scroll Menu (62), Zoom Menu (64), and File Transfer / Edit Menu 66, a message liquid crystal 70, a telephone 72, a sheet insertion / output port 74, a sheet receiving portion 76, and the like.

6 is a state transition diagram for explaining the state transition of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, an operation of a facsimile apparatus using a touch screen and a method of operating the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

On the other hand, the facsimile transmission device according to the present invention is a motor 38, which is controlled and driven by the control unit 44 shown in FIG. 4, the battery 40 and the control unit 44 that can be charged with electricity to carry It is characterized in that it further comprises an operation display unit 42 which is controlled to display various operation states of the fax transmission device. The touch screen unit 30 may include a screen, a digitizer, and a pen, and may also be implemented as a touch screen panel (TSP: TSP) as shown in FIG. 5. do. Generally, the menu boards (numbers, keyboards and buttons) of the conventional facsimile are replaced by the contact screen 30 shown in FIG.

First, the operation of the facsimile according to the present invention is largely divided into three types: editing, transmitting, and receiving an original.

First, the case where a message of the original is to be transmitted will be described.

Prior to the description, the function menus 30 of the touch screen unit 30 include an enlargement / reduction menu 64 selected for enlarging or reducing an original appearing on the screen of the touch screen unit 30 and a message for editing. Or the edit / transfer selection menu 66, which is selected to select whether to transmit, the up, down, left, or right scroll menu 62 which is selected to scroll the screen on the message liquid crystal 70 up, down, left, or right, and the function menus on the pen 50. A pen input menu 60 to be selected for selection by the user, an online keyboard input menu 58 to be displayed on the screen containing a keyboard, including letters, numbers and symbols to select, edited or input via input / output means Or a data storage menu 56 which is selected for storing the received original and various menus for performing an editing operation.

Turning on the power of the apparatus shown in FIG. 5, which is an embodiment of the facsimile according to the present invention, power is supplied to each part of the facsimile, and the start state 80 shown in FIG. 6, and the controller 44 shown in FIG. ) Drives the motor 38 so that the paper of the message to be transmitted from the outside to the input and output unit 34 is inserted, and the scanning state 82, the inserted message through the telephone line through the interface unit 36 as a modem through the output terminal In order to transfer to another fax via OUT, the user selects a transfer from the transfer / edit menu 66 on the menu LCD 68. Then, when the image data of the input document is to be stored in the storage unit 32, the storage state 94 and the data storage menu 56 may be selected. In this case, the memory may be implemented as a nonvolatile flash memory or a volatile memory (SRAM) provided with a backup function. The image data is compressed and stored by the controller 44 which drives the fax.

On the other hand, if the user wants to transfer a frequently used standardized file stored in the storage unit 32, the user selects the file view menu 54 in the menu liquid crystal 68 shown in FIG. Select the file, and the data selection state 84, the selected file is displayed on the message liquid crystal (70). The message displayed on the screen is again sent to the other fax machine through the output terminal OUT by selecting the transfer / edit menu 66. At this time, when the file is to be edited and the data on the screen is edited using the TSP (86), the message to be edited among the message of the file displayed on the screen can be edited using the scroll menu (62). Can be displayed, and then the displayed screen can be enlarged or reduced using the zoom menu (64), deleting part of the image (or message) displayed on the screen, or using a pen (50) to draw a picture, text or symbol. Etc. can be added. There are two ways to record letters and symbols.

First, when the pen 50 is written on the cover sheet of the message liquid crystal 70 displayed on the screen, the ink INK is displayed on the sheet in the screen through the contact pad. If you write a handwriting, such as a signature, you can use handwriting recognition algorithms to recognize letters and add them to the edited data in fonts stored inside the facsimile.

Secondly, by using the online keyboard input menu 58, a pen-type keyboard layout that appears on the message liquid crystal 70 may be selected by the pen 50 to record letters.

Also, there are two ways to add pictures.

First, you can use the pen to press the base point, drag to draw a circle, and to start and drag the line.

Secondly, the pen is pressed, so it is inking, so the user can press the pen and move the trajectory. When the pen is in contact with the cover sheet, it is called an inking method because it appears as if it is recorded by ink.

When the image data is stored in the storage unit 32, the storage state 94 is stored as an index so that the index addition state 92 can be searched for contents or contents. When the edited data is to be transmitted, the transmit / edit menu 66 can be selected from edit to transmit.

Finally, when the message is to be received from another fax, the facsimile device according to the present invention is placed in the reception standby state by deleting the transmit / edit menu 66 on the screen. In addition, the facsimile according to the present invention can be used even when carrying the battery 40 built therein. A small operation state display lamp is attached to the exterior shown in FIG. 5 to display the operation state of the facsimile at that time.

As described above, the facsimile apparatus using the touch screen according to the present invention stores frequently used and formatted documents in the facsimile, and can be searched and viewed on the message liquid crystal 70 using the menu liquid crystal 68 when necessary, and sent. In case of writing, letters, pictures and symbols can be edited by handwriting using the Inking method to save the time, labor and resources required for editing, storing and sending documents. In addition, in the user interface, by implementing a graphical user interface (GUI) by using a touch screen means rather than a conventional switch method, it is possible to provide a space-saving and easy user interface, all with a simple touch screen means By implementing the facsimile function, it is easy to carry as it is mechanically simple. There is one effect.

Claims (6)

Displays the various function menus and the messages selected by the user's hand or other tools for transmission and reception, including editing the original message, and displays letters, numbers, symbols and Contact screen means capable of creating said message to send or edit a picture or the like; Storage means for storing a program of the function menu and a plurality of user files; Input / output means for inputting the message to be transmitted from the outside or for transmitting the received or edited message to another facsimile through a printout or a telephone line; Connected to the contact screen means, storage means and input / output means, respectively, to connect with each other, to control each other, to control the message to be edited, to allow the edited or input message to be stored in the storage means or to a telephone line or Control means for controlling the output to the outside by printing; And interface means connected between said control means and said telephone line to establish a telephone connection for causing said message to be transmitted or received over a telephone line. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the facsimile transmission device comprises: a motor controlled and driven by the control means; A battery capable of charging electricity for carrying; And an operation display lamp controlled by the control means to display various operation states of the fax transmission device. The facsimile transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the contact screen means may be implemented as a screen, a digitizer, a pen, or a touch screen panel (TSP). The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the function menu of the touch screen means comprises: an enlargement / reduction menu selected for enlarging or reducing the message displayed on the screen of the contact screen means; A selection menu selected to select whether to edit or send the message; A scroll menu selected to scroll the screen on the contact screen up, down, left, or right; A pen input menu selected to enable selection of the function menus by a pen; An online keyboard input menu selected to cause a keyboard including the letters, numbers, and symbols to select to appear on the screen; A data storage menu selected for storing the edited message or input or received through the input / output means; And a variety of menus for performing the editing operation. A method of operating a facsimile transmission device using a contact screen for receiving, editing, or transmitting a message of an original, the method comprising: editing the message, including editing, and contacting a user's hand or other tool for transmission and reception. Displaying a variety of function menus to be selected, and preparing contact screen means for creating the message to be transmitted or edited by writing letters, numbers, symbols and pictures by the contact; Preparing a program of the function menu and storage means for storing a plurality of user files; Preparing input / output means for inputting the message to be transmitted from the outside or for transmitting the received or edited message to another facsimile through a printout or a telephone line; An input / output step for inputting or outputting the message through the input / output means or the contact screen means; An editing step of editing the message using the contact screen means; A storage step of sequentially storing the message in the storage means; A telephone connection step of making a telephone connection to transmit the message to another fax or to receive the message from the other fax; And a message reading step of sequentially reading the message stored in the storage means. 6. The editing preparation step according to claim 5, wherein the editing step reads the message input through the input / output means or stored in the storage means when an editing function is selected in the function menu of the contact screen means. ; An editing step of editing the message using an editing menu of the contact screen means; And an editing termination step of ending the editing of the message and proceeding to the storing step.