JP2590794B2 - Data converter - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data conversion device,
In particular, the present invention relates to a data conversion device having a facsimile data collection function, which is effective for failure recovery and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional data conversion apparatus does not collect facsimile data before and after data conversion when performing data conversion, and does not collect facsimile data during data conversion when a failure occurs. No data was collected. This can be said to be a lack of consideration for recovery in the event of a failure during data conversion. Regarding this, for example, the description in the Electronic Information and Communication Society Handbook, edited by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, published by Ohmsha, 1988, Vol. 28, third section can be referred to.

[0003]

In the prior art described above, when performing data conversion, facsimile data before and after data conversion are not collected, and data conversion is not performed during the occurrence of a failure. No attempt was made to collect facsimile data and quickly respond to recovery from failures. For this reason, there has been a problem that a reproducibility test cannot be performed when a failure occurs or the like, and it is not possible to quickly respond to failure recovery. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a data conversion device having a facsimile data collection function, which solves the above-mentioned problems in the conventional technology and is effective for failure recovery and the like. Is to do.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the present invention is to provide a data conversion apparatus provided in a private communication network including an exchange, a facsimile terminal and a computer. The present invention is attained by a data conversion apparatus comprising: means for collecting facsimile data transmitted via a line before performing data conversion; and means for collecting the facsimile data after data conversion.

[0005]

In the data converter according to the present invention, when facsimile data transmitted from a facsimile terminal or a computer is converted by the data converter, data is collected before and after the data conversion so that a failure occurs. In such a case, a reproduction test can be performed. Further, as described in claim 2 or 3,
If a failure occurs during data conversion of facsimile data, if facsimile data during data conversion or addresses at the time of failure occurrence are collected, the reproduction test can be performed more efficiently. Become.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a communication network to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 2, 101, 102
Is a telephone, 103 and 104 are facsimile terminals, 105 is a computer, 106 is an exchange, and 107 is a communication line connecting these. In the present communication network, for example, a character recognition sheet is transmitted from the telephone 101 and the facsimile terminal 103, character recognition is performed by a data conversion device incorporated in the exchange 106, and the character recognition result is transmitted to the computer 10
By transmitting the data to the communication network 5, communication for performing the character recognition function in the communication network is possible. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a data conversion device 106a incorporated in the exchange 106 according to one embodiment of the present invention. The data conversion device 106a according to the present embodiment includes a facsimile data reception unit 1061, a service processing unit 1062, a data conversion processing unit 1063, a data storage unit 1064, a facsimile data transmission unit 1065, and a data communication line 1066.

[0007] For example, facsimile data called from facsimile terminal 103 is received by facsimile data receiving section 1061 via data communication line 1066. The received facsimile data is sent to service processing section 1062. In the service processing unit 1062,
Determine the content of the service. For example, when it is necessary to receive B4 size facsimile data and transmit it to an A4 size facsimile terminal, the pixel density conversion processing must be performed in the data conversion device 106a. In this case, the service processing unit 1062 sends a request to convert facsimile data of B4 size to facsimile data of A4 size to the data conversion processing unit 1063, and sends out facsimile data of B4 size. Next, in the data conversion processing unit 1063,
The received B4-size facsimile data is subjected to data conversion processing in accordance with a request from the service processing unit 1062. Here, B4 size facsimile data is converted to A4
Performs processing to convert to facsimile data of the size. However, before starting this data conversion process, the received B4
The facsimile data of the size is stored in the data storage unit 1064. After the accumulation, the data conversion process is performed. When the data conversion process has been completed normally, facsimile data after data conversion (here, facsimile data of A4 size) is stored in the data storage unit 1064. if,
If the data conversion process is not completed normally due to a hardware failure or software bug during the data conversion process, the facsimile data up to the point where the data conversion was completed normally (up to halfway) and the address of the failure location Position) is also stored in the data storage unit 1064. When the data conversion is completed normally, the data conversion processing unit 10
63 stores the facsimile data after the data conversion processing in the data storage unit 1064 in addition to the facsimile data before the data conversion processing, and transmits the A4-size facsimile data after the data conversion processing to the facsimile data transmission unit 10
To 65.

[0008] The data storage section 1064 stores facsimile data before and after the data conversion processing of the data conversion processing section 1063. If a failure or the like occurs during the data conversion processing by the data conversion processing unit 1063, the facsimile data up to the halfway of the normal termination and the address of the location where the failure has occurred are stored. The facsimile data transmitting section 1065 is provided with the data conversion processing section 106
3 receives the facsimile data sent from it. After the reception, the facsimile data transmitting unit 1065 transmits the data to the user's facsimile terminal. The data communication line 1066 includes a facsimile data reception unit 1061, a service processing unit 1062, a data conversion processing unit 1063, a data storage unit 1064, and a facsimile data transmission unit 106
5 for data communication between them. When any problem occurs in the system including the communication network, the operator can start the data conversion device 106a and retrieve the facsimile data before and after the data conversion process from the data storage unit 1064. . If a failure has occurred in the data conversion processing unit 1063, the facsimile data before the data conversion processing, the facsimile data in the middle of the data conversion processing, and the address position of the location where the failure has occurred are retrieved from the data storage unit 1064. Can be. According to the above embodiment, it is possible to perform a reproduction test when a failure occurs in the process of receiving facsimile data, converting the received facsimile data into facsimile data having a converted pixel density, and transmitting the data. The effect is obtained.

FIGS. 3 and 4 are diagrams showing the flow of signals and data in the above operation. Thin lines indicate control signals, and thick lines indicate facsimile data. FIG. 3 shows a case where the data conversion is completed normally, and FIG. 4 shows a case where a failure occurs during the data conversion process. , 'Indicate that the facsimile data called from the facsimile terminal is received by the facsimile data receiving unit 1061 via the data communication line 1066. , 'Indicates that the received facsimile data is transmitted to the service processing unit 1062. , 'Indicates that the data conversion processing unit 1063 receives facsimile data from the service processing unit 1062. , 'Indicate that the data conversion processing unit 1063 stores the facsimile data before starting the data conversion processing.
064. The data conversion processing unit 1063 performs data conversion processing after accumulation. When the data conversion processing is completed normally, the facsimile data after the data conversion processing is stored in the data storage unit 106.
4 is stored. Indicates that if the data conversion process did not end normally,
The data storage unit 106 stores the facsimile data up to the middle of the normal end and the address position of the place where the failure occurred.
4 is stored. , 'Is the converted facsimile data,
This indicates that the data is transmitted to the facsimile data transmission unit 1065. , 'Indicates that the data is to be transmitted from the facsimile data transmitting unit 1065 to the user's facsimile terminal. As described above, according to the present embodiment, both data before and after data conversion processing performed by the data conversion processing unit are
Data is stored regardless of whether the data conversion process is normal or abnormal.By analyzing data before and after the data conversion process, it can be confirmed that the system is normal or that an error has occurred, The effect is that a reproduction test can be performed when the occurrence of occurs.

Next, a case where a code is received, code pattern conversion is performed, and facsimile data is transmitted will be described with reference to FIG. In this case, the data conversion device 206a includes a code reception unit 2061, a service processing unit 2
062, data conversion processing unit 2063, data storage unit 20
64, a facsimile data transmission unit 2065 and a data communication line 2066. The user transmits the code information of the computer 105 via the communication line 107 and transmits the code information via the data communication line 2066 to the code receiving unit 20.
Received at 61. The received code information is sent to service processing section 2062. The service processing unit 2062 determines the content of the service. For example, the computer 105
It is conceivable to convert the code information sent from the FAX to facsimile data according to the content of the control code. In this case, a code / pattern conversion process is performed in the data conversion device 206a. For this reason, the service processing unit 2062 sends a request for performing the code / pattern conversion process to the data conversion processing unit 2063, and sends out the code information. The data conversion processing unit 2063 performs a data conversion process on the received code information in accordance with a request from the service processing unit 2062.
Here, it is a process of converting the code information into facsimile data. As described above, before starting the data conversion process, the received code information is stored in the data storage unit 20.
64. After the accumulation, the data conversion process is performed.
When the data conversion process is completed normally, the facsimile data after the data conversion is stored in the data storage unit 2064. If the data conversion process does not end normally due to a hardware failure or a software bug during the data conversion process,
The data storage unit 2064 also stores the (halfway) facsimile data and the address (position) of the location where the failure occurred. After storing the code information before the data conversion process and the facsimile data after the data conversion process in the data storage unit 2064, the data conversion processing unit 2063 sends the facsimile data subjected to the data conversion process to the facsimile data transmission unit 2065.

The data storage unit 2064 stores the code information before the data conversion processing of the data conversion processing unit 2063 and the facsimile data after the data conversion processing. If a failure or the like occurs during the data conversion processing, the data conversion processing unit 2063 accumulates the facsimile data up to the halfway of the normal termination and the address of the location where the failure has occurred. The facsimile data transmitting unit 2065 receives the facsimile data transmitted from the data conversion processing unit 2063. After receiving, the facsimile data transmitting unit 20
From 65, transmission to the user's facsimile terminal is performed.
The data communication line 2066 is connected to the code receiving unit 206
1, service processing unit 2062, data conversion processing unit 206
3, used for data communication between the data storage unit 2064 and the facsimile data transmission unit 2065. When any problem occurs in the system including the communication network, the operator activates the data conversion device 206a and extracts the code information before the data conversion process and the facsimile data after the data conversion process from the data storage unit 2064. be able to. If a failure has occurred in the data conversion processing unit 2063, the facsimile data before the data conversion processing, the facsimile data in the middle of the data conversion processing, and the address position of the failure location are stored in the data storage unit 20.
64. According to the above embodiment,
In the process of receiving the code information, converting the code information into facsimile data, and sending the data, a reproduction test can be performed when a failure occurs.

Next, FIG. 6 shows a case where the user inputs a character recognition sheet from the facsimile terminal 103, performs character recognition on the facsimile data, performs pattern code conversion, and sends code information to the computer 105. It will be described using FIG. In this case, the data conversion device 306a includes a facsimile data receiving unit 3061, a service processing unit 30
62, data conversion processing unit 3063, data storage unit 306
4, code transmission unit 3065 and data communication line 306
Consists of six. The user inputs a character recognition sheet from the facsimile terminal 103, transmits the facsimile data via the communication line 107, and receives the facsimile data via the data communication line 3066 at the facsimile data receiving unit 3061.
The received facsimile data is decoded by the facsimile data receiving unit 3061, converted into a data format that allows data conversion processing, and transmitted to the service processing unit 3062. The service processing unit 3062 determines the content of the service. As in the case of the present embodiment, in the case where the character recognition sheet of the user is subjected to character recognition and pattern code conversion is performed, facsimile data may be converted into code information in accordance with the content of the control information. In this case, the pattern code conversion processing is performed in the data conversion device 306a. Therefore, the service processing unit 3062 sends a request for performing the pattern / code conversion process to the data conversion processing unit 3063, and sends out facsimile data. The data conversion processing unit 3063 performs a data conversion process on the received facsimile data according to a request from the service processing unit 3062. Here, it is a process of converting facsimile data into code information. As described above, the received facsimile data is stored in the data storage unit 3064 before the data conversion process is started. After the accumulation, the data conversion process is performed. If the data conversion process is completed successfully, the data after data conversion
(Here, code information) as facsimile data,
The data is stored in the data storage unit 3064. If the data conversion process does not end normally due to a hardware failure or a software bug during the data conversion process, if the facsimile data up to the point where it ended normally (up to halfway) and The address (position) is also stored in the data storage unit 3064. Data conversion processing unit 3
Reference numeral 063 transmits the data after the data conversion processing to the code transmission unit 3065 after storing both the data before the data conversion processing and the data after the data conversion processing in the data storage unit 3064.

The data storage unit 3064 stores facsimile data before data conversion processing by the data conversion processing unit 3063 and code information after data conversion processing. If a failure or the like occurs during the data conversion processing, the data conversion processing unit 3063 accumulates data up to the middle of normal termination and the address of the location where the failure has occurred. Code transmitting section 3065 receives the code information transmitted from data conversion processing section 3063. After the reception, the transmission from the code transmission unit 3065 to the computer 105 of the user is performed. The data communication line 3066 is used for data communication between the facsimile data receiving unit 3061, the service processing unit 3062, the data conversion processing unit 3063, the data storage unit 3064, and the code transmission unit 3065. If any problems occur in the system including the communication network,
The operator can activate the data conversion device 306a and retrieve the code information before the data conversion process and the data after the data conversion process from the data storage unit 3064. If a failure has occurred in the data conversion processing unit 3063, the facsimile data before the data conversion processing, the facsimile data in the middle of the data conversion processing, and the address position of the location where the failure has occurred are retrieved from the data storage unit 3064. Can be. According to the above-described embodiment, in the process of receiving facsimile data, converting the data into code information, and transmitting the same, it is possible to perform a reproduction test when a failure occurs. .

The above embodiments are merely examples of the present invention, and it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. For example, in the above description,
Although an example in which the facsimile data or code information collecting function is provided in the data conversion device incorporated in the exchange, the facsimile data or code information collecting function is
It goes without saying that it can be provided not only in the exchange but also in any other part. Further, in the above-described embodiment, the present invention is described with respect to a case where facsimile character recognition communication and the like are performed using a public telephone network.However, in the case where there is no exchange and a dedicated line incorporating a data conversion device is used. Also, the present invention can be used effectively.

[0015]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a remarkable effect that a data converter having a facsimile data collection function effective for recovery from a failure and the like can be realized can be realized. That is, according to the present invention, when facsimile data transmitted by a facsimile terminal or a computer is converted by a data converter, data is collected before and after the data conversion, and a reproducibility test is performed when a failure occurs. And a data conversion device having a facsimile data collection function effective for failure recovery and the like can be realized. Further, as described in claim 2 or 3, data conversion of facsimile data is performed. In the case where a failure has occurred, if the facsimile data during data conversion and the address at the time of the failure are collected, the reproduction test can be performed more efficiently.

[0016]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a data conversion device incorporated in an exchange according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a communication network to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the flow of signals and data in the embodiment.
(Part 1).

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the flow of signals and data in the embodiment.
(Part 2).

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a data conversion device incorporated in an exchange according to another embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a detailed configuration of a data conversion device incorporated in an exchange according to still another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

101, 102: telephone, 103, 104: facsimile terminal, 105: computer, 106: exchange, 107: communication line, 106a: data converter, 1061: facsimile data receiving unit, 1062: service processing unit, 106
3: Data conversion processing unit, 1064: Data storage unit, 10
65: facsimile data transmission unit, 1066: data communication line, 206a: data conversion device, 2061: code reception unit, 2062: service processing unit, 2063: data conversion processing unit, 2064: data storage unit, 2065: facsimile data transmission unit , 2066: data communication line, 3
06a: data conversion device, 3061: facsimile data reception unit, 3062: service processing unit, 3063: data conversion processing unit, 3064: data storage unit, 3065: code transmission unit, 3066: data communication line.

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A data conversion apparatus provided in a private communication network including an exchange, a facsimile terminal, and a computer, wherein the facsimile terminal sends a call from the facsimile terminal or a computer and transmits facsimile data transmitted through a data communication line to a data converter. A data conversion apparatus comprising: means for collecting before conversion, and means for collecting the facsimile data after data conversion. 2. A data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising means for controlling said data collection means to collect facsimile data up to the time of data conversion when a failure occurs during data conversion. The data conversion device according to claim 1. 3. A device according to claim 1, further comprising a means for collecting an address position of facsimile data when a failure occurs during the data conversion, in addition to said means. 2. The data conversion device according to 1.