JP2699415B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document creation device for creating and editing a document.

[Conventional technology]

Some conventional document creation devices have a facsimile transmission function and are connected to a communication line.

In such a document creating apparatus, the created and edited document data is transmitted to a destination facsimile apparatus connected to a communication line by a facsimile transmission function.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

By the way, the communication fee when transmitting the document data from the document creating apparatus to the destination facsimile apparatus includes the distance, the number of documents (transmission pixel density, that is, the data amount of the document data),
It is determined based on each element such as the transmission time and the communication mode.

Therefore, when transmitting document data from a document creation device to a destination facsimile device, a communication fee can be predicted in advance to be charged when the document data is transmitted to the destination facsimile device, and the estimated communication cost can be estimated. Based on the fee, for example, after changing the transmission time to the destination facsimile machine or reducing the data amount of the document data, and then transmitting the document data to the destination facsimile machine, This is convenient for saving communication charges.

However, the above-described conventional document creation device does not include the above-described means for calculating the communication fee to be charged. Therefore, the conventional document creation device has a large amount of document data to be transmitted, Even when the fee is higher than the desired fee, the document data is transmitted to the destination facsimile machine.

Therefore, the communication fee for communication of the document data from the document creation device to the destination facsimile machine becomes higher than expected, which is uneconomical.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and includes an identification number indicating a transmission destination device, a data amount of document data to be transmitted, a transmission time, and a desired amount related to a communication fee to be charged. An object of the present invention is to provide a document creation apparatus having a function of setting an optimal transmission condition from a combination and automatically transmitting the document.

[Means and actions for solving the problem]

In the present invention, based on a predetermined time when transmitting predetermined document data to a destination facsimile device connected to a communication line, a telephone number indicating the destination facsimile device, and a data amount of the predetermined document data. A charge calculating means for calculating a communication charge to be charged when the document data is transmitted to the destination facsimile machine, a predetermined amount related to the communication charge, a telephone number indicating the destination facsimile machine, and the predetermined Based on the data amount of the document data, a time setting means for setting a transmission time when transmitting the document data to the destination facsimile machine, and a communication charge obtained by the charge calculation means, and Notification means for notifying the transmission time set by the time setting means; and a time and text according to the notification result of the notification means. Changing means for changing at least one of the data amount of the data, and changing at least one of the amount of money and the data amount of the document data in accordance with the notification result of the notifying means; The time set in the charge calculating means or the data amount of the document data is changed based on the time or the data amount of the document data input in accordance with the notification result of the notifying means, and further, the notification of the notifying means by the operator is performed. The amount set in the time setting means or the data amount of the document data is changed based on the amount of the communication charge or the data amount of the document data input and instructed according to the result. Accordingly, when the communication fee notified by the notifying unit is higher than a desired fee related to the communication fee of the operator, the document data is transmitted in a data amount until the communication fee notified by the notifying unit reaches the desired fee. Is reduced, or if the transmission time reported by the reporting means is different from the desired time related to the transmission time of the operator, the document data is transmitted until the transmission time reported by the reporting means reaches the desired time. Data volume is reduced.

Therefore, according to the present invention, when transmitting the document data to the destination facsimile machine, the communication fee can be reduced.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a document creation apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings of FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing one embodiment of a document creation device 1 according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, the document creation device 1 stores image data processed by the image processing unit 2 and document data created by the document creation unit 3 in the external storage device 4.

Then, the document creating apparatus 1 sets an optimal transmission condition based on a destination telephone number, a transmission mode, a data amount of document data including image data to be transmitted, a communication fee, and the like designated by the operator. If there is an instruction to send under the set sending conditions,
The document data is transmitted to a communication line 8 via a transmission control unit 7 having a data conversion device 5, a public line connection device 6, and the like.
To send to. The document data sent to the communication line 8 is input to the destination facsimile machine 9.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the document creation apparatus according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, a keyboard / mouse control unit 11 controls input of various data, commands, and the like from a keyboard 12 and a mouse 13 connected to the keyboard 12.

A central processing unit (hereinafter, referred to as a CPU) 14 controls the keyboard / mouse control unit 11, the disk control unit 15, the display control unit 16, and other control units according to a program corresponding to the command input from the keyboard / mouse control unit 13, The real memory 17 and the facsimile transmission unit 18 are controlled in a time-division manner as a whole, and execute predetermined calculations and processes.

The disk 19 stores data (documents) to be edited, musical score programs, files of a kana-kanji conversion dictionary group having a hierarchical structure, data contents of a font configuration, a display bitmap of each font, and the like.

The real memory 17 is composed of RAM, and an operating program for operating the system, the keyboard 12 or the mouse.
Instruction group and data group input from 13 etc., above disk
The conversion dictionary file and font configuration data read from 19 and data such as the display bitmap of each font are stored.

The display control unit 16 controls the display device 20 such as a CRT to display bitmap data corresponding to the font configuration data in the real memory 17 and windows corresponding to various functions.

The facsimile transmission unit 18 includes a transmission control device 21, a data conversion device 22, and a public communication line connection device 23, and these devices are controlled by the CPU 14, respectively.

The transmission control device 21 connects the CPU 14 and the communication line 24, and controls transmission and reception of data with the CPU 14, and transmits and receives control signals necessary for data transmission on the communication line. In addition, the data conversion device 22 converts the protocol,
Data compression of the document data input from 19 is performed. Further, the public communication line connection device 23 is connected to the communication line 24 and sends out the data from the data conversion device 22 to the communication line 24.

The data transmitted from the public communication line connection device 23 is input via the communication line 24 to the facsimile device 25 connected to the communication line 24.

Next, the operation of the document creating apparatus will be described with reference to FIGS. 3, 4, and 5. FIG.

First, the operator, as shown in FIG.
Document icon 3 on the desktop displayed on the display device 20
By operating the mouse 13 in a predetermined manner from among 0, 31, and 32, a document icon corresponding to the document data to be transmitted by facsimile (hereinafter, referred to as FAX) is selected (step 100). Specific document icon
The information is transcribed to the fax icon 33 (step 101). For example,
When the document icon 30 is selected and transcribed to the fax icon 33, the display device 20 displays the FA as shown in FIG. 3 (b).
The X transmission property sheet 34 is displayed (step 1
02).

The FAX transmission property sheet 34 includes, for example, a system display area 34A for displaying a message to the operator and an attribute display area 34B for displaying attribute items, as shown in FIG. 3 (b). . Further, by instructing the "content display" of the system display area 34A by a predetermined operation of the mouse 13, a telephone number list for facsimile transmission corresponding to the transmission destination, the telephone number of the transmission destination and the transmission mode is displayed in the attribute display. Displayed in area 34B. From the FAX transmission telephone number list displayed in the attribute display area 34B in this way, the operator designates a desired destination telephone number by a predetermined operation of the mouse 13 (step
103).

The operator operates the system display area 34A.
When "contents display" is instructed again by a predetermined operation of the mouse 13, the fax transmission telephone number list is deleted from the attribute display area 34B, and the attribute items are displayed again as shown in FIG.

At this time, the designated destination telephone number is displayed in the "destination telephone number" column of the attribute display area 34B displayed again. If there is no desired destination telephone number in the FAX transmission telephone number list, the operator inputs the destination telephone number and the transmission mode using the keyboard 12.

Next, when the operator wants to reduce the communication fee to a predetermined amount so as to be charged when the document data is transmitted to the desired destination, the operator operates the keyboard 12 or the mouse 13) to perform a predetermined operation on the attribute display area. Instruct the "desired amount" item of 34B, and further enter the desired amount in the "desired amount" column.

Then, the CPU 14 determines whether or not the desired amount has been input in the “desired amount” field based on the instruction of the “desired amount” item by a predetermined operation of the keyboard 12 (or the mouse 13) (step 104). If the amount is entered in the "desired amount" field, the default values of the transmission mode and the data amount of the document data to be transmitted in the destination specified in step 103 are set (step 10).
5) Further, the scheduled transmission time is set based on these default values, the desired destination telephone number, and the desired amount (step 106).

The transmission optimum conditions in step 106 are displayed in the attribute display area 34B as shown in FIG.

Then, the operator determines whether or not the transmission optimum condition displayed in the attribute display area 34B meets a desired condition (step 107). If the scheduled time is significantly different from the desired time, the user instructs "change" of the system display area 34A by a predetermined operation of the mouse 13, and then selects an attribute item to be changed among the attribute items of the attribute display area 34B. Is specified, and the contents of the specified attribute item are set arbitrarily (step 108).

For example, the operator performs a predetermined operation of the mouse 13 to
After instructing "change" in the system display area 34A, the "data amount" item in the attribute display area 34B is instructed to adjust the data amount of the transmitted document.

In the above-described adjustment of the data amount of the document, the data amount is reduced so as not to hinder the reproduction of the document on the receiving side (that is, the destination facsimile machine). For example, as shown in FIG. 4 (c), the document data to be transmitted is data corresponding to document contents composed of chapter headings of chapters 1 to 5 described on N (n) original sheets. , The operator does not interfere with the reproduction of the document on the receiving side. For example, the contents of the document after the chapter heading in Chapter 5, that is, the document sheets N (n-1) and N (n) The data corresponding to the document content described on the sheet can be deleted.

After the reduction of the document data has been completed, the CPU 14 which has input the instruction to end the arbitrary setting of the transmission state executes the step 106 (that is, the setting of the scheduled transmission time) based on the setting value arbitrarily set in the step 108. I do.

The operator operates the mouse 13 in a predetermined manner as described in step 108 until the optimum transmission condition displayed in the attribute display area 34B in step 107 meets the desired condition, and indicates the position of the attribute item to be changed. Then, the corresponding part is corrected, and when the optimum transmission condition meets the desired condition, "transmission" of the system display area 34A is instructed (step 109).

By the way, if the amount has not been entered in the “desired amount” field of the attribute display area 34B in step 104, the CPU 14 sets default values of the transmission mode, the transmission time, and the data amount of the document data to be transmitted ( Step 110),
In addition, each of these default values, and
Based on the destination telephone number specified in step 3, an expected communication charge is calculated to be charged when the document data is transmitted to the destination (step 111). As the transmission optimum conditions in step 110, an attribute display area 34B is displayed as shown in FIG. 4 (a).

Then, the operator judges whether or not the transmission optimum condition displayed in the attribute display area 34B meets a desired condition (step 111). If the optimum condition does not meet the desired condition, for example, the calculated prediction If the communication charge is significantly higher than the desired communication charge,
Similarly to the operation of 108, the content corresponding to each attribute item column of the attribute display area 34B is arbitrarily set (step 113).

For example, when the calculated expected communication charge is significantly higher than the desired communication charge, the operator displays “change” in the system display area 34A by a predetermined operation of the mouse 13, and then displays “change” in the attribute display area 34B. "Data amount" is specified, and the data amount of the document data is further reduced. When adjusting the data amount of this document, the data amount is reduced so as not to hinder the reproduction of the document on the receiving side (that is, the destination facsimile machine).

After the reduction of the document data is completed, the CPU 14 that has input the instruction to end the arbitrary setting of the transmission state executes the step 111 based on the set value arbitrarily set in the step 113.

Then, as described in step 113, the operator specifies the position of the attribute item to be changed by performing a predetermined operation on the mouse 13 until the transmission optimum condition displayed on the attribute display area 43B in step 110 meets the desired condition, as described in step 113. Then, if the transmission optimum condition meets the desired condition, the mouse 13 is operated in a predetermined manner to instruct "transmission" in the system display area 34A (step 114).

In step 114 or step 109 described above,
When "Send" in the system display area 34A is instructed, C
The OU 14 waits until the set transmission time, and when the current time reaches the transmission time, sends the document data to the communication line 24 via the facsimile transmission unit 18 (step 115).

Note that the CPU 14 cancels the transmission when the "cancel" of the system display area 34A is instructed, and the document name of the document to be transmitted already waiting in the transmission state when the "display" is instructed. Is displayed, and if "send" is instructed, the process waits until the send time set as described above, and erases the FAX send property sheet 34.

According to the above embodiment, it is possible to calculate the communication fee to be charged based on the telephone number indicating the destination facsimile machine, the data amount of the document data, the transmission time, and the desired fee. The transmission time can be set when the communication fee for communication of the document data to the facsimile apparatus becomes low.

In the above embodiment, the communication fee is calculated to be charged,
If the calculated communication fee is higher than the desired fee, the communication fee for the document data can be reduced by reducing the data amount of the document data.

In the above embodiment, the operator does not need to memorize the transmission conditions, and only needs to perform a predetermined operation on the desktop displayed on the display device. A document transmission operation environment to the device can be provided,
The optimum transmission conditions provided to the operator can be changed according to the request of the operator, and the automatic transmission of the document data according to the changed transmission conditions becomes possible.

Further, in the above embodiment, since the facsimile transmission unit is connected to the large-capacity external storage device (disk),
With a unified operating environment within one type of specific system,
Documents can be created and stored, and can be set to be transmitted to a plurality of destinations under optimum transmission conditions. Therefore, a series of operations such as creation of a document, storage of the document, and transmission of the document can be easily performed in a short time.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, the present invention transmits document data based on an identification number indicating a destination device, a data amount of predetermined document data, and a transmission time of the predetermined document data to the destination device. A communication fee is calculated to be charged when the document data is transmitted to the destination device. If the calculated communication fee is higher than a desired fee, the communication data is processed until the communication fee reaches the desired fee. Since the data amount can be reduced, it is possible to provide an economical document creation device that can reduce the communication fee of document data from the transmission side to the transmission destination device at a low rate.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing one embodiment of a document creation device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a document creation device according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 and FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the document data transmitting operation of the document creating apparatus of FIG. 2, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the document data transmitting operation of the document creating apparatus of FIG. 11 Keyboard / mouse controller, 12 Keyboard
13 mouse, 14 central processing unit (CPU), 15 disk control unit, 16 display control unit, 17 real memory, 18
... Facsimile transmission unit, 19 disk, 20 display device, 21 transmission control device, 22 data conversion device, 23
…… Public communication line connection device.

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A method for creating a predetermined document connected to a communication line.
A document creation device that edits and transmits the document data by instructing a destination device connected to the communication line with an identification number indicating the destination device, causing the document data to be transmitted to the destination device. A communication fee to be charged when the document data is transmitted to the destination device based on the predetermined time at the time, the identification number indicating the destination device, and the predetermined data amount of the document data. Charge calculating means, notifying means for notifying the communication charge obtained by the charge calculating means, and changing means for changing at least one of the time and the data amount of the document data according to the notification result of the notifying means. A document creation device characterized by the following. 2. A predetermined document is created and connected to a communication line.
A document creation device that edits and transmits the document data by instructing a destination device connected to the communication line with an identification number indicating the destination device, wherein the document data is transmitted to the destination device. A transmission time for transmitting the document data to the destination device based on a predetermined amount related to a communication fee to be charged at the time, an identification number indicating the destination device, and a data amount of the document data. Time setting means, a notifying means for notifying the transmission time set by the time setting means, and a changing means for changing at least one of the amount of money and the data amount of the document data according to the notification result of the notifying means. A document creation device characterized by comprising: