JP2603815B2 - Facsimile machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus, and more particularly to a facsimile apparatus in which a recording element is used as an error display means to display an error on a recording sheet in addition to recording a received image.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of device can be roughly classified into a high-end machine and a popular machine. Display the operator's erroneous operation. But,
Conventionally, there is no display that indicates the type of stop during transmission.
This is because the cost of the display element is high and the display is continued even after the operation is stopped, so that extra power is consumed. On the other hand, in the popular type, the display is simplified, and there is almost no display, and only the display such as "error" or "no recording paper" is performed by LED or the like.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a display indicating that an error condition has occurred when an error has occurred in image communication, and a pattern indicating what kind of error has occurred. Can be recorded, and when an error occurs, the error pattern indicating the type of error is automatically recorded and the error is reported, or the error is recorded without recording the error pattern. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of selecting whether to perform notification indicating occurrence of an error.

Another object of the present invention is to make it possible to switch whether or not these displays are made by a switch, not to display them in a normal case used by a user, to cause a trouble, It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus in which the display is enabled by such a switch only when the cause of the trouble is found and the cause of the trouble is displayed.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a facsimile apparatus for recording image information on recording paper by a recording means, comprising a plurality of types of errors including a first error and a second error. Detection means for detecting a state, storage means for storing error patterns for a plurality of types of errors, notification means for notifying the occurrence of an error state by sound and display, and whether the error pattern is recorded by the recording means. Selecting means for selecting whether or not,
In response to the error detection by the detection means, read the error pattern of the storage means, and record the error pattern in the recording means,
And control means for notifying the occurrence of an error by the notifying means. When the first error state occurs, the control means determines whether or not recording of an error pattern is selected by the selecting means. When the recording of the error pattern is selected, an error pattern corresponding to the detected error is read from the storage unit and recorded on the recording paper, and the notification unit is notified that an error condition has occurred. On the other hand, when the recording of the error pattern is not selected, the notification by the notification means is performed without recording the error pattern, and
When the second error state occurs, an error pattern corresponding to the detected error is read out from the storage means and recorded irrespective of the selection of the selection means.

[0006]

According to a first feature of the present invention, when an error occurs, the control means determines whether or not recording of an error pattern has been previously selected by the selection means, and the error pattern is recorded. Is selected, a pattern indicating the type of the error is automatically recorded and a notification indicating that an error has occurred is performed. On the other hand, if the recording of the error pattern is not selected, the error pattern is not recorded, and a notification indicating that an error has occurred is performed.

A second feature of the present invention is that a plurality of types of errors including a "first error" and a "second error" can be detected, and a first error state is generated. An object of the present invention is to record an error pattern and / or report an error based on the selection by the above-described selection means. On the other hand, when the second error state occurs, the error pattern is always recorded regardless of the selection of the selection unit.

[0008]

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

1 to 3 show one embodiment of a facsimile apparatus to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, an area having a width D on a read original 1 is defined by a lens system 2 and a solid-state imaging scanning element 3.
Read by. The read image information is temporarily stored in the buffer memory 4. The stored image information is read out and rearranged by the data rearranging circuit 5,
Next, a modulation / demodulation circuit (here used as a modulation circuit) 6
And transmits it to the receiving facsimile machine via the public telephone line TL.

The reception-side facsimile apparatus sends data demodulated by a modulation / demodulation circuit (here, used as a demodulation circuit) 7 to a data rearranging circuit 8 and controls the motor drive circuit 9 by counting the number of reception lines.

The data rearranging circuits 5 and 8 are constituted, for example, by using a microcomputer (CPU) 10 and a part of an image RAM memory (buffer memory) 11 in FIG.

The data rearranged by the data rearranging circuit 8 is stored in a buffer memory 11, and when a predetermined amount of data is stored therein, the predetermined amount of data is supplied to a recording element 12, and the width of the recording paper 13 is reduced. Record D minutes,
The motor 14 is driven by the motor drive circuit 9, and the paper feed roller 15 driven by the motor 14 rotates, so that the next printing position comes to the printing element printing element 12. The image information is transmitted by repeating the above operation.

FIG. 2 shows a detailed electric circuit configuration of the facsimile apparatus. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 16 denotes a read-only memory (R) storing a control program for the CPU 10.
OM), 17 is a read-only memory (ROM) for a display pattern which stores a display pattern of an error display, and 18 is a device for recording the display pattern of the display pattern ROM 17 on the recording paper 13 or recording normal image information. A display changeover switch for switching whether to record on the paper 13; 19, various sensors; 20, an operation panel on which various switches and indicators such as LEDs are arranged; 21 to 24, each an I / O port; It is a bus for giving and receiving.

As described above, when the transmission cannot be continued during the repeated transmission of the image information, for example, errors 1 and 2 based on the erroneous operation shown in FIG. Depending on the cause of one of
The PU 10 performs transmission processing of the sequence and then moves to error processing. At this time, the CPU 10 changes the state of the display changeover switch 18 to the I / O port 2 in step S1.
1 and when the switch 18 is "OFF", nothing is displayed on the recording paper 13 and step S2 is executed.
The main power is turned off in step S3 after an error is displayed on the operation panel 20 by using an LED, a buzzer, or the like.

On the other hand, when the switch 18 is "ON", the process proceeds from step S1 to step S4, where the image buffer memory 11 for the width D is cleared, and then, in step S5, the contents of the display pattern memory 17 are buffered. The data is transferred to the memory 11 and, in step S6, its contents are recorded on the recording paper 13 in a manner as if recording image data. In step S7, the recording paper 13 was moved by the motor 14 and the paper feed roller 15. Send. Next, the process proceeds from step S2 to S3 to turn off the power.

In the above case, the error that the set of the transmission original is incomplete and the reading original is not inserted to the reading position and the error that the transmission original is too short and does not progress are caused by an erroneous operation. "And" Error 2 ". For errors corresponding to these erroneous operations by the operator, the display changeover switch 18 is turned on,
It is displayed on the recording paper 13 irrespective of the off state.

On the other hand, the EOM signal, CFR2 signal, GI2
When there is a trouble at the time of transmission such as no reception of a signal or the like, this corresponds to “Error 3” to “Error 8” in FIG.

If it is inconvenient to display an error such as "no recording paper" or "step out of motor" on the recording paper 13, a sequence in which no error display is performed on the recording paper 13 is performed. It can also be.

In the above-described embodiment, since it is necessary to increase the storage capacity of the ROM memory to display a sentence using characters in the display pattern, the types of display on the recording paper 13 are represented by numerals and It is preferable to use a symbol based on a combination of alphabets. However, when the storage capacity can be increased due to a decrease in the price of the ROM memory or the like, even the cause of the trouble and the text for instructing the countermeasure can be displayed directly on the recording paper 13 to notify the operator or the service person. Of course, it is possible.

In the above-described embodiment, the case of the semi-multi facsimile has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this example, and can be applied to a full multi-facsimile.

In this embodiment, the case of G2 facsimile has been described, but the present invention is not limited to G3 facsimile or G1 facsimile.
It is also applicable to facsimile and the like.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, if an error pattern recording mode is previously selected by the selection means, when an error occurs, the error pattern indicating the type of error automatically generated Is recorded,
The operator does not need to perform an operation for recording an error pattern each time an error occurs, and can confirm what kind of error has occurred.

Further, according to the present invention, the notification of the occurrence of an error by sound and display indicates that a simple error has occurred, and the details of the error are notified to the operator by recording an error pattern. The operator can immediately confirm that an error has occurred by sound and display, and can confirm the details of the error by means of an automatically recorded error pattern. Can be performed accurately. In addition, when the recording of the error pattern is unnecessary, the setting is made so that the recording is not performed by the selecting means, so that only the notification of the occurrence of the error by the sound and the display is performed. it can.

According to the present invention, when a first error occurs, an error pattern corresponding to the selection of the selection means is recorded, and when a second error occurs, the error pattern is recorded regardless of the selection of the selection means. Since an error pattern corresponding to the error is always recorded, if an error requiring an appropriate action by the operator (for example, an error due to an erroneous operation) occurs, the error pattern is recorded in advance by the selection means. Even if it has not been selected, the operator can be made aware of that. On the other hand, when another error occurs, it is possible to select whether or not to automatically record the error pattern according to the operator's request. This makes it possible to more appropriately perform processing when an error occurs.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an entire configuration of an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electric circuit portion of the facsimile apparatus shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of sequence control regarding an error display portion in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Reading original 2 Optical system 3 Solid-state imaging scanning element 4 Buffer memory 5 Data rearrangement circuit 6 Modulation circuit 7 Modulation circuit 8 Data rearrangement circuit 9 Motor drive circuit 10 CPU (microcomputer) 11 Buffer memory 12 Recording element 13 Recording paper 14 Motor 15 Paper feed roller 16 Program ROM 17 Error display pattern ROM 18 Display switch 19 Sensors 20 Operation panel 21 to 24 I / O port 25 Bus TL Public telephone line

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus for recording image information on recording paper by recording means, comprising: detecting means for detecting a plurality of types of error states including a first error and a second error; Storage means for storing a pattern; notification means for notifying the occurrence of an error condition by sound and display; selection means for selecting whether or not to record the error pattern by the recording means; and error detection by the detection means The error pattern of the storage means is read out in accordance with and recorded in the recording means,
And control means for notifying the occurrence of an error by the notifying means. The control means determines whether or not recording of an error pattern is selected by the selecting means when the first error state occurs. When the recording of the error pattern is selected, an error pattern corresponding to the detected error is read from the storage means and recorded on the recording paper, and the notification means is notified that an error condition has occurred. On the other hand, when the recording of the error pattern is not selected, the notification by the notification unit is performed without recording the error pattern, and the selection of the selection unit is performed when the second error state occurs. Facsimile, wherein an error pattern corresponding to the detected error is read from the storage means and recorded. Location.