JP2003263149A - Communication apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication apparatus capable of displaying character strings obtained from a terminal device according to an original character set, even when the terminal device and the communication apparatus differ in character code being used. <P>SOLUTION: A complex machine 10 which is arranged so as to be connected to PC 11a-11n via a LAN line, and is provided with a scanning function, a facsimile function, a printing function, and a copying function, and further corresponds to the network, obtains character strings and a character code corresponding to the character strings obtained from any of the PC 11a-11n; changes over the character set according to the obtained character code; and displays the obtained character strings. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication device installed in a terminal device via a communication line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a plurality of personal computers (hereinafter referred to as PCs) have been utilized by utilizing a communication line such as an in-house LAN.
By arranging a terminal device such as a printer, a facsimile, a scanner, etc., one printer, a facsimile,
A network system is built in which a scanner or the like is shared and used. Further, a communication device as a multifunction peripheral having functions of a printer, a facsimile, a scanner, etc. has also been developed. The communication device has various functions.

For example, there is a personal address book function in the above communication device. It communicates with a PC, obtains and displays a list of destination addresses stored on the PC (for example, addresses of other PCs connected to the in-house LAN, email addresses, telephone numbers, etc.) This is a function that allows you to select the destination of.

As a result, it is not necessary to store the personal address book in the communication device, and the memory capacity can be small.
In addition, since the registered contents of the personal address book are different for each user, it is convenient if they are managed by individual PCs (for example, the registered contents are changed).

[0005]

However, the language setting of each PC is often set to the native language of each user, and if the language settings of all PCs connected by the in-house LAN match. Not necessarily. In this case, when the personal address book function of the communication device is used, the contents of the personal address book are displayed in the language set in the communication device. For example, if the language setting of the PC is Japanese and the language setting of the communication device is English, the name displayed in the image 50 of FIG. 4 is displayed on the PC as the image 60 of FIG. 5 on the communication device. It Thus, if the character set used in the personal address book and the character set displayed on the communication device are different, the contents of the personal address book are displayed as garbled characters, and the exact name cannot be known. .

It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication device capable of displaying a character string acquired from the terminal device in accordance with the original character set even when the character sets used in the terminal device and the communication device are different.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a communication device provided with a display unit and arranged in a terminal device via a communication line, wherein the character string and the characters are transmitted from the terminal device. Acquire a character code corresponding to the column, switch the character set according to the acquired character code,
The character string is displayed on the display unit.

With this configuration, the character string obtained from the terminal device can be displayed in accordance with the original character code without so-called garbled characters.

In the above communication device, when the character set corresponding to the acquired character code is not included, the acquired character string is switched between character sets according to the character code being used on the display unit, and the display is performed. By displaying on a copy, it is possible to display it as some character as in the conventional case.

Further, in the above communication device, when the character set corresponding to the acquired character code is not included, the acquired character string is not displayed, and garbled characters are displayed on the display unit. Can be prevented.

Further, in the above communication device, when the character set corresponding to the acquired character code is not included, after downloading the character set corresponding to the character code, the character set is switched according to the acquired character code. By displaying the character string on the display unit, the character string acquired from the terminal device can be displayed according to the original character code.

The communication device may be a network scanner, a network facsimile, or a combination of both.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a network system using a multi-function peripheral of the present invention.
This network system built with an in-house LAN, etc., has a scanner function, a facsimile function, a printer function,
A network-compatible MFP 10 with a copy function,
A plurality of PCs 11 that send and receive data via the multifunction device 10.
a to 11n, and the public line 12 that connects the multifunction device 10 and another communication device (for example, a facsimile device or a PC).

In this network system, the original read by the multifunction peripheral 10 can be transmitted to another desired communication device via the PCs 11a to 11n or the public line 12. Conversely, it is also possible to receive a document from another communication device via the public line 12 and transfer the data to the PCs 11a to 11n. In addition, PC 11a ~
Data such as an address book stored in 11n can be read out and used.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the multifunction machine 10 of the present invention. Reference numeral 20 denotes a CPU that controls the overall operation of the multifunction machine 10, and 21 denotes an R that stores various control programs and the like.
OM, 22 is a work RAM, and 23 is an operation display unit including operation means such as a ten-key pad or a touch panel and display means such as a liquid crystal display.

Reference numeral 24 is a scanner for reading an original and converting it into a document, 25 is a printer for printing the document on recording paper, 26 is a compression / decompression unit for encoding and decoding the documents to be transmitted and received, and 27 is a public. A communication control unit for controlling transmission / reception with an external communication device via the line 12, 28 is a modem,
9 is a network control unit connected to the public line 12, 30 is a LAN equipped with a network interface card (NIC)
A network control unit connected to the line.

In such a network system, the data stored in any of the PCs 11a to 11n can be displayed on the operation display section 23 of the multifunction machine 10. For example, when displaying the personal address book stored in the PC 11a on the operation display unit 23, the operation display unit 2
3 is operated to request the personal address book from the PC 11a. In response to this, the PC 11a sends the personal address book and the character code used in the personal address book to the multifunction device 1
Send to 0. Here, the character code refers to a character set number determined for each language (for example, 1253 in Greek).

The multi-function peripheral 10 which has acquired the personal address book and the character code displays the contents of the personal address book in the character set corresponding to the acquired character code regardless of the character code currently used. For example, when the personal address book registered in Japanese shown in the image 50 of FIG. 4 is displayed on the multi-function peripheral 10 set in English, it is displayed as an image 40 shown in FIG. In the image 40, only the contents of the personal address book are displayed using the Japanese character set, and the garbled characters as in the conventional FIG. 5 do not occur.

When the character code used in the personal address book is different for each registered content, when acquiring the personal address book from the PC 11a, the character code may be obtained for each registered content. Thereby, the display content in one screen can be displayed by the character sets of a plurality of different character codes.

As described above, when the multi-function device 10 acquires the character string from the PC, it also acquires the character code for displaying the character string, so that the character string acquired from the PC does not become garbled and the original character string is acquired. It can be displayed according to the character set.

When the multifunction machine 10 does not have a character set corresponding to the acquired character code, the acquired character string may be displayed on the operation display unit 23 as the character of the character code being used. . As a result, it is possible to display some characters as in the conventional case.

If the multifunction machine 10 does not have a character set corresponding to the acquired character code, a message indicating that the acquired character string cannot be displayed is displayed on the operation display unit 23 instead of displaying the acquired character string. You may do it.
Alternatively, the contact with the PC may not be accepted, and a message indicating that the contact cannot be made may be displayed on the operation display unit 23. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent garbled characters from being displayed on the operation display unit 23.

If the multifunction machine 10 does not have the character set corresponding to the acquired character code, the character set corresponding to the acquired character code is downloaded, and then the acquired character string is set to the downloaded character set. It may be displayed in characters. Here, the character set is the P that transmitted the character code.
It may be downloaded from C, or may be downloaded from another predetermined server device. As a result, although it takes some time to download the character set, the multi-function device 10 can display the character string acquired from the PC according to the original character set.

When the character set is newly downloaded in the multi-function device 10, additional recording can be performed if there is a free memory capacity. On the other hand, since there is usually no free memory capacity, one of the existing character sets may be erased and a new character set may be recorded. At this time, it is desirable that the character set to be erased is one that is rarely used. The downloaded character set may be temporarily stored in the RAM 22.

In the above embodiment, the personal address book has been described as an example of the character string that the multifunction device 10 obtains from the PCs 11a to 11n.
It can also be applied to a case where a help screen or the like is acquired from C11a to 11n and displayed.

The communication device of the present invention can be applied to a network scanner, a network facsimile, and the like, in addition to the above-mentioned multifunction machine.

[0027]

According to the present invention, the communication device acquires the character string and the character code for displaying the character string from the terminal device, switches the character set according to the acquired character code, and displays the character string. As a result, the character string obtained from the terminal device can be displayed in accordance with the original character code without so-called garbled characters.

Further, according to the present invention, when the communication device does not have a character set corresponding to the acquired character code, the acquired character string is set in accordance with the character code being used on the display unit of the communication device. By switching and displaying, it is possible to display as some characters as in the conventional case.

Further, according to the present invention, when the communication device does not have a character set corresponding to the acquired character code, the acquired character string is not displayed, and garbled characters are displayed on the display unit. Can be prevented.

Further, according to the present invention, when the communication device does not have a character set corresponding to the acquired character code, after downloading the character set corresponding to the character code, the character set is set according to the acquired character code. By switching and displaying the character string,
The character string acquired from the terminal device can be displayed according to the original character code.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a network system using a multifunction peripheral of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a multifunction peripheral of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an image of an address book displayed on the multifunction peripheral of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an image of an address book displayed on a conventional PC.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an image of an address book displayed on a conventional multifunction peripheral.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Multifunction device (communication device) 11a-11n PC (terminal device) 23 Operation display section

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Kiyoshi Hori             1-2-2 Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Prefecture             Kyocera Mita Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 5B021 AA01 BB04 CC07 PP04                 5C062 AA02 AA05 AA35 AB20 AB23                       AB38 AC05 AC34 AE08 AF00                 5C082 AA00 BA02 BB01 BB32 CB01                       DA32 MM06

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A communication device comprising a display unit and arranged on a terminal device via a communication line, wherein a character string and a character code corresponding to the character string are acquired from the terminal device, and the acquired character is acquired. A communication device, wherein a character set is switched according to a code and the character string is displayed on the display unit. 2. If the acquired character string does not have a character set corresponding to the acquired character code, the acquired character string is switched to another character set according to the character code being used on the display unit and displayed on the display unit. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein when the character set corresponding to the acquired character code is not included, the acquired character string is not displayed. 4. If the character set corresponding to the acquired character code is not included, after downloading the character set corresponding to the character code, the character set is switched according to the acquired character code to change the character string. The communication device according to claim 1, which is displayed on the display unit. 5. The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the communication device is a network scanner, a network facsimile, or a composite machine of both.