JP3000766B2 - Communication device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication device ,
The received image information is recorded on recording paper by a recording device.
Communication device .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a communication apparatus, for example, a facsimile apparatus, all image data received at the time of reception is usually recorded on a recording sheet in a recording section and output .
When there was no recording paper, the data was received in the memory, the recording paper was set, and the recording was output.

On the other hand, the apparatus stores journal data such as a destination name or destination number for each transmission / reception, communication time, number of communication, and the like, and can record and output a management report as needed. As a result, it is possible to obtain information such as when and how many copies are received , and when and where and how many copies are transmitted. Based on the information, it is possible to create statistical data such as the usage status of the device. Has also been used.

[0004]

However, when the received image data for a large number of communications is stored in the receiving memory, and the data for one of the communications is to be recorded and output, the desired communications data is stored. If other data is stored before that, the desired data can only be taken out after all the data has been recorded and output, so it takes too much time to obtain the desired data, or wastes the recording paper. There was a problem of spending time.

[0005] Also, the apparatus is also to have a means for retrieving by recording or display some or all of the received image, is from a part of the image marked with the determination of whether a desired received image data There was a problem that it was difficult. In order to solve this, it is conceivable to display all images
However, in such a case, it is troublesome to have no large display unit, and if it has a large display unit, there is a problem that the cost of the apparatus is increased.

[0006] In addition, it is conceivable to display switching the image, there is a problem that takes a long time to switch the display.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem. When memory reception is being performed, the corresponding journal data is displayed on a display means so that the journal data can be selected. communication can provide information related to the received image data to the memory receiving, further desired data from among the received image data can be easily found, capable of recording the output only the desired data
It is intended to provide a device .

[0008]

In order to achieve this object, a communication device according to the present invention uses a recording device for receiving received image information.
A communication apparatus for recording on a recording sheet Ri, a first storage means for storing the journal data as encoded data, each of the communication, the first storage control for storing the journal data in said first storage means Means, second storage means for storing received image data, second storage control means for storing the received image data in the second storage means as required at the time of reception, and first storage control First searching means for searching data corresponding to the received image data stored in the second storage control means, among coded data stored in the means, and searching by the first searching means Display means for displaying the encoded data as journal data, a second search means for searching desired data from the journal data displayed on the display means, and a search performed by the second search means. Corresponds to Yanarudeta, the received image data stored in said second storage means, and a recording control means for recording the output on the recording sheet by the recording device.

[0009]

The first storage means of the communication apparatus of the present invention having the above configuration stores journal data as coded data. The first storage control means stores the journal data in the first storage means each time communication is performed. The second storage unit stores the received image data. The second storage control means stores the received image data in the second storage means as required at the time of reception. The first search means searches the coded data stored in the first storage control means for data corresponding to the received image data stored in the second storage control means.

[0010] The display means displays the coded data searched by the first search means as journal data. The second search means searches the journal data displayed on the display means for desired data. The recording control means causes the recording device to record and output the received image data stored in the second storage means, which corresponds to the journal data retrieved by the second retrieval means.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment embodying a communication device of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[0012] Figure 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of a facsimile apparatus as the communication device, a facsimile
Device, the first storage control means, second storage control means, the first retrieving means, the second retrieval means, the CPU10 corresponding to the recording control means, a ROM 12, a display unit 14 corresponding to the display means , an operation unit 16, a reading unit 18, the first storage means, to RAM20 corresponding to the second storage unit, the
A recording unit 22 corresponding to the recording device of the invention , a communication unit 24 ,
It is constructed from.

The CPU 10 operates in accordance with a program stored in the ROM 12 and an operation signal of the operator from the operation unit 14, and converts an image of a transmission original into electric image data by the reading unit 18 at the time of transmission. Then, the image data is transmitted to the other party via the line by the communication unit 24.

At the time of reception, when a transmission request from the transmission side is received, the received image data from the transmission side is converted into recording data by the communication unit 24 and recorded and output by the recording unit 22.

However, if the operator sets the reception mode by operating the operation unit 16 during standby, the reception image data from the communication unit 24 is stored in the reception image data storage area 2 in the RAM 20.
02 is stored.

On the other hand, at the time of each transmission and reception, journal data such as the destination name or number, time, and the number of communications are stored in the journal data storage area 201 in the RAM 20.
When the designated time or number of records is reached, the recording unit 22 records and outputs a management report for each communication as in the management report output example of FIG.

When the facsimile apparatus is set to the memory reception mode, the received image data is always stored in the RAM 20.
When the data is stored in the received image data storage area 202 and recorded and output as needed, it can be searched by the journal data corresponding to the received image data, and only the desired received image can be recorded and output.

[0018] Hereinafter, the operation thereof will be described an example in accordance with the flowchart of FIGS.

[0019] FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of operation when in the facsimile apparatus is set in the memo <br/> re reception mode.

When the facsimile apparatus enters the memory reception mode in response to a call signal on the transmission side (S1), the reception image data is preceded by the memory reception number data x (S2). Data storage area 2
02 (S3). Further , the same data as the memory reception number data x of the received image data of the main reception is added to the head of the journal data related to the main reception in order to distinguish the normal journal data from the journal data at the time of the memory reception (S4). Are stored in the journal data storage area 201 in the RAM 20 (S5). Thereafter , 1 is added to the reception number data x so that the memory reception number data at the next memory reception increases by one (S6),
The memory reception mode ends (S7).

[0021] FIG 5 shows an operation example of recording the output of the received image data after note <br/> Li received in the facsimile apparatus.

When the operator gives an instruction to display the journal data corresponding to the received image data received in the memory by pressing the recording key 161 in the operation unit 16 (S10).
First , the CPU 10 searches for the first data of the journal data stored in the journal data storage area 201 in the RAM 20 (S11).

Next , the CPU 10 searches and sorts data corresponding to the destination name or number (hereinafter referred to as destination data) among the journal data to which the memory reception number data x is added (S12). The minimum value of the memory reception number data x for each piece of the destination data is searched for (S
13), each destination name or number is displayed on the display unit 14 one by one in ascending order of the minimum value (S1).
4).

When the operator selects a desired destination from the destination name or number displayed on the display unit 14 by using the selection key 162 in the operation unit 16 (S15), the CPU 10 sets the same destination as the destination. The journal data having the previous data is retrieved from the journal data storage area 201 in the RAM 20 (S16), and displayed on the display unit 14 in ascending order of the memory reception number data x (S17).

The operator selects desired journal data from the journal data displayed on the display unit 14 and inputs the displayed x value corresponding to the selected journal data by pressing the ten key 163 in the operation unit 16. (S1
8) When the record key 161 is further pressed (S19),
The CPU 10 stores the received image data storage area 2 in the RAM 20.
The received image data to which the same memory reception number data x as the journal data selected from 02 is added is recorded and output (S20), and the operation is ended (S21).

[0026] In the present facsimile device, RAM20
In the received image data stored in the received image data storage area 202, the data which has been recorded and output or becomes unnecessary due to being transmitted erroneously or the like is determined by the following procedure. It can also be erased.

First, the operator operates the journal data corresponding to the destination of the received image data to be erased in the same procedure as in the operation example of recording and outputting the received image data after receiving the memory.
The data corresponding to the received image data to be deleted is selected from the displayed journal data, and the value of x displayed corresponding to the journal data is displayed on the operation unit 16 (S17). When the delete key 164 is pressed (S23) and the delete key 164 is pressed (S23), the CPU 10 stores the same memory reception number data x as the journal data selected from the received image data storage area 202 in the RAM 20. The added received image data is deleted (S24), the memory reception number data x added to the selected journal data is also deleted (S25), and the operation is terminated (S21).

As is apparent from the above operation example, in this facsimile apparatus, the operator displays only the journal data corresponding to the received image data received in the memory on the display unit 1.
4 can be displayed, it can be searched by the destination by operating the operation unit 16, after having selected the journal data corresponding to a desired received image data, that can be recorded and output by the recording unit 22, further, unnecessary It is also possible to delete the received image data that has become unnecessary, so that even if a large number of received image data other than the desired received image data are stored in the received image data storage area 202 in the RAM 20, only the desired received image data can be easily deleted. Can be recorded and output, and there is no need to record and output other received image data other than the desired received image data. Therefore, there is an effect that recording paper is not wasted.

[0029]

As is apparent from the above description, in the communication apparatus of the present invention, when receiving data in the memory, the corresponding journal data is displayed on the display means so that the journal data can be selected. In addition, it is possible to provide information relating to received image data received in memory, to easily search for desired data from the received image data, and to record and output only the desired data.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of an embodiment of the present invention .
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FIG. 2 is an output example of a management report according to an embodiment of the present invention .
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FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a memory reception mode according to an embodiment of the present invention;
9 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example in a case where the operation is performed.

FIG. 4 is a memory-received reception of one embodiment of the present invention .
5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of recording and outputting image data.
is there.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 CPU 12 ROM 14 Display Unit 16 Operation Unit 18 Reading Unit 20 RAM 22 Recording Unit 24 Communication Unit 161 Recording Key 162 Selection Key 163 Numeric Key 164 Deletion Key 201 Journal Data Storage Area 202 Received Image Data Storage Area

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An image information received by a recording device is recorded on a recording paper.
A communication apparatus for recording on a first storage means for storing the journal data as encoded data, each of the communication, a first storage control means for storing the journal data in said first storage means, receiving A second storage unit for storing image data, a second storage control unit for storing the received image data in the second storage unit as needed at the time of reception, and a second storage control unit for storing the received image data in the first storage control unit. First retrieval means for retrieving data corresponding to the received image data stored in the second storage control means from among the coded data, and the coded data retrieved by the first retrieval means. Display means for displaying data as journal data; second search means for searching desired data from the journal data displayed on the display means; and a journal searched by the second search means. Corresponds to Narudeta, the received image data stored in said second storage means, communication apparatus characterized by comprising a recording control means for recording the output on the recording sheet by the recording device.