JP2003032467A - Image communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately apply transfer processing to received image information without causing useless transfer of even received unwanted image information or inconvenience requiring re-transfer. SOLUTION: This equipment has a communication means, with which two or more lines can be connected, a transfer destination storage means for holding the transfer destination information of received image information and a means for performing tranfer setting and when picture information received on a prescribed line among the lines satisfies prescribed conditions in the case of performing the transfer setting, the image information is transferred to a prescribed transfer destination.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image communication apparatus having a transfer function for transferring received image information to a designated destination.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional device of this type has a facsimile communication means 4 for transmitting and receiving image information through a telephone network in accordance with a predetermined communication control procedure (ITU-T compliant), as shown in the schematic configuration of FIG. And an image information memory 31 for accumulating the received image information and a storage means 3 in which the designated destination is stored.
50 and the transfer control means 520, the received image information stored in the image information memory 31 is automatically transmitted to the designated destination stored in the storage means 350.

In the above-mentioned device, for example, image information (facsimile information) transmitted to a terminal at home, which is absent, can be automatically transferred to a terminal at a destination specified in advance.

[0004]

However, according to such a configuration, there is a problem that image information which does not necessarily need to be transferred is transferred and inconvenience that the transfer destination is fixed to one is generated. It was

The above problem occurs for the following reasons. That is, in the conventional device described above, the received image information is indiscriminately transferred to the same transfer destination. For this reason, for example, even direct mail, which does not need to be transferred, is transferred, which may impose extra communication costs. In addition, depending on the calling source, it may be necessary to transfer the data to another destination. In that case, the transfer destination needs to perform the transfer again.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and does not incur unnecessary inconvenience such as transferring unnecessary received image information and inconvenience such as necessity of retransfer.
An object of the present invention is to provide an image communication device capable of appropriately transferring received image information.

[0007]

In order to solve the above problems, the invention according to claim 1 is a communication means capable of connecting two or more lines, and a transfer destination for holding transfer destination information of received image information. Storage means, transfer setting means, and control for transferring to the transfer destination when the transfer setting is made and the image information received on a predetermined line of the lines satisfies a predetermined condition And means.

The invention according to claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is that a part of the information indicating the transmission source sent from the transmission source of the image information matches a predetermined one. This is what you should do. In the invention according to claim 3, in the invention according to claim 2, the information indicating the transmission source is a telephone number of the transmission source, and matching with a predetermined number is a registered telephone number. This is what you should do.

[0009]

According to the present invention, according to the above configuration, when the image information received on a predetermined line of two or more lines satisfies a predetermined condition, the image information is transferred to a predetermined transfer destination so that the received line can be changed. Since the received image information is transferred to any transfer destination,
The received image information can be selectively transmitted according to the receiving line, and the received image information can be transmitted without inconvenience such as unnecessary transfer of unnecessary received image information and need for retransmission. Appropriate transfer processing can be performed.
Further, since the transfer is performed when the transfer setting is made, even when transferring according to the receiving line, the image information received from a predetermined line is not always transferred, and unnecessary receiving image information is also transferred. It is possible to prevent wasteful transfer.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts. FIG. 1 shows a schematic structure of an image communication apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 4 is a facsimile communication means for transmitting and receiving image information by a telephone network according to a predetermined communication control procedure (ITU-T compliant). , 31 is an image information memory for accumulating the received image information,
32 is a file management table for managing the image information accumulated in the image information memory 31 in file units, 3
3 is a transmission job table in which data defining transmission operations such as a file ID (identification information) of transmission image information and a transmission destination is stored, and 36 is a plurality of caller telephone numbers and each caller. The storage means for arbitrarily registering the forwarding destination for the, the extraction means for extracting at least a part of the telephone number of the calling source at the time of incoming, the reference numeral 52 for the calling source of the extracted telephone number registered in the storage means 36. If it is, the transfer control means causes the received image information accumulated in the image information memory 31 to be transmitted to the transfer destination registered for the registered calling source.

Here, as shown in FIG. 2, the extracting means 51 is exchanged between a calling side (sending side) and a called side (receiving side) prior to transmission of image information (facsimile data). Various control signals (NSF, CSI, DIS, NSS, T
SI, DCS), T sent from the calling side to the called side
Extract the last four digits of the calling party's telephone number from the SI.

The storage means 36 is a speed dial table 34.
And the incoming program table 35, the lower 4
It has a data format configuration in which a registered destination and a transfer destination for the registered destination are searched for from a digit telephone number.

FIG. 3 shows a concrete configuration example of the image communication apparatus shown in FIG. In the figure, 1 is an image reading device for reading transmission image information from a document or the like, 2 is an operation panel, 31
Is an image information memory, 32 is a file management table, 33
Is a transmission job table, 34 is a speed dial table,
35 is an incoming program table, 4 is a facsimile communication means, 5 is a system control unit, and 6 is compression / transmission image information.
A code / decoding unit for decompression processing, a recording device 7 for printing and recording received image information, a communication report and the like on a recording paper, a common system bus 8 and a telephone line L.

The operation panel 2 includes an operation section 21 including a numeric keypad and command keys, and a display section 2 using a liquid crystal panel or the like.
2 and the operation / display unit control 23.

The image information memory 31 is composed of a large-capacity storage device such as a hard disk drive, and stores the read image information as a file for each communication. A file management table 32 is provided to manage the image information stored in the image information memory 31 on a file-by-file basis.

The system control unit 5 is constructed by using a computer (CPU) having a microcircuit and centrally controls the operation of the entire apparatus.

The system control section 5 incorporates the functions of the extraction means 51 and the transfer control means 52 shown in FIG. 1 as software.

Further, the system control section 5 has a software built-in detection means for detecting which line has received a call.

Each of the management tables 32 to 35 is, for example, an SRAM whose power source is backed up by a battery.
It is composed of a non-volatile memory that can be written at any time.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the structure of the speed dial table 34 and the incoming program table 35.

In the abbreviated dial table 34, registration areas are set for the respective abbreviated numbers (001) to (0 **),
A destination name, a destination number (telephone number), a communication line (extension, external line, etc.), a communication type, etc. are arbitrarily stored and registered in each registration area. The speed dial table 34 is originally used to perform a speed dial transmission operation, but stores a specified call originator and a specified destination for transfer control together with an incoming program table 35 described later. It is also used as the storage means 36 for registration.

In the incoming call program table 35, a registration area is set for each of the incoming call program Nos. (1) to (k), and a select shortening No. (0) is set in each registration area.
01) to (0 **), incoming lines (extensions, external lines, etc.) and communication types, and a plurality of transfer destinations are arbitrarily stored and registered.

Here, the select shortening numbers (001) to (0 **) of the incoming program table 35 correspond to the shortening numbers (001) to (0 **) of the shortening dial table 34, and are selected. By designating the shortened number, the telephone number of the destination registered with the same shortened number as the designated select shortened number can be searched. In other words, the select shortened No. of the incoming call program table 35 functions as a kind of pointer data that indirectly indicates the telephone number of the specific calling source, and has substantially the same function as the telephone number of the specific calling source.

FIG. 5 shows a configuration example of the file management table 32 and the transmission job table 34.

The file management table 32 stores file identification information (ID) set for each file, and the number of pages, linear density, encoding method, and document size are set for each file identification information (ID). Accumulated information data such as, a storage address for each page and its length are stored.

In the transmission job table 34, the identification information of the image information file stored in the image information memory 31 (I
D) is stored together with the communication type, and for each identification information (ID), the number of pages of image information in the file, the number of destinations, information of each destination (dial number, etc.), etc. are stored. There is.

The operation of the image communication apparatus configured as described above will be described below. FIG. 6 shows a schematic operation of the above-described image communication apparatus in the form of a flowchart.

First, when an incoming call is received, it is determined whether or not the transfer setting is performed by the user's arbitrary operation. If the transfer function is not set, the received image information is printed and recorded on a recording paper. The receiving operation is performed.

If transfer settings have been made, it is checked whether the line that received the incoming call is a specific line registered in the incoming program table 35. If the line that received the call does not correspond to any of the registered lines, the process shifts to a normal reception operation in which the received image information is printed and recorded on the recording paper.

If the line receiving the incoming call is a registered line, the extraction means 51 formed by software in the system control unit 5 causes the TSI sent from the calling side to output the telephone number below the calling source telephone number. 4 digits are extracted. Then, it is searched (searched) whether or not the calling source of the telephone number having the same last four digits as the extracted last four digits is registered. This search is performed by referring to the incoming program table 35 and the speed dial table 34.

If it is determined that the calling source is registered, the transfer destination registered for the calling source and the image information file received from the calling source and stored. The ID is read from each of the tables 32, 34, and 35 to create the transmission job table 33. Then, the normal accumulation transmission is performed by the transmission job table 33.

As described above, the received image information can be selectively transmitted according to the incoming line and the calling source, and the transfer destination is also sorted according to the incoming line and the calling source. You can

As a result, the received image information can be appropriately transferred without causing the waste of transferring even unnecessary received image information and the inconvenience of the need for retransfer.

Further, in the case of the above-described embodiment, the speed dial table provided for the speed dial transmission operation is also used for registration and retrieval of the call source to be transferred, and It is possible to obtain the advantages that the storage area is effectively used and the caller's registration work is simplified.

[0036]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, when the image information received on the predetermined line of the two or more lines satisfies the predetermined condition, the image information is transferred to the predetermined transfer destination. , If the transfer settings are configured, the received image information is transferred. When the transfer is performed, the received image information is transferred to any transfer destination according to the received line. It is possible to selectively transmit the received image information without causing the waste of transferring even unnecessary received image information and the inconvenience of having to retransmit the received image information. It has the effect of becoming. Further, since the transfer is performed when the transfer setting is made, even when transferring according to the receiving line, the image information received from a predetermined line is not always transferred, and unnecessary received image information is also transferred. It is possible to prevent waste such as transferring.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an image communication device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a part of a communication control procedure executed by the device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration example of the apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a speed dial table and an incoming program table.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a file management table and a transmission job table.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a schematic operation of a transfer operation by the device of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic configuration diagram of a conventional image communication device.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Image Reading Device 2 Operation Panel 31 Image Information Memory 32 File Management Table 33 Transmission Job Table 34 Speed Dial Table 35 Incoming Program Table 36 Storage Means (34, 35) 4 Communication Means 5 System Control Unit (Extraction Means, Detection Means, Transfer Control means) 51 extraction means 52 transfer control means L line

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A communication means capable of connecting two or more lines,
Transfer destination storage means for holding transfer destination information of the received image information, means for performing transfer setting, and image information received on a predetermined line of the lines when the transfer setting is performed is predetermined. An image communication apparatus comprising: a control unit that transfers to the transfer destination when the condition of 1 is satisfied. 2. The image according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is that a part of information indicating the transmission source sent from the transmission source of the image information matches a predetermined one. Communication device. 3. The information indicating the transmission source is a telephone number of the transmission source, and matching with a predetermined number means matching with a registered telephone number. The image communication device described.