JP3011990B2 - Communication device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a communication device having a simple dial function such as a touch-touch dial and a speed dial.

[Related Art] As a simple dial function of a facsimile apparatus, a destination is registered in advance, and a one-touch dial function that can be transmitted by pressing one key, or a transmission with a two- or three-digit number. Speed dialing functions are well known.

In a facsimile apparatus having such a transmission function, when an operator additionally registers one destination, conventionally, if a predetermined registration operation is performed, the same destination already registered has been registered. .

Therefore, if the operator forgets to register by himself or does not notice that another person has already registered, one address may be registered in duplicate.

One-touch dialing and abbreviated dialing have a fixed maximum number that can be registered. Therefore, the registration capacity becomes full due to useless destination registration called duplicate registration,
In some cases, the required destination could not be registered.

In addition, at the time of transmission, even if the destination is registered, the operator may not notice the destination and may make a call by a normal dial operation.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, the conventional simple dial has a problem that one destination is easily registered in duplicate, and the registered information is not sufficiently utilized.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication device that solves the above-mentioned problem, prevents duplicate registration of simple dialing, and enables an operator to use registration information.

[Means for Solving the Problems] According to the present invention, when outputting a list of simple dials such as one-touch keys and abbreviated numbers, the same destination telephone number is displayed as being duplicated when the destination telephone number is the same. It is characterized by having done.

[Operation] According to the present invention, when a list is output, an overlapping portion is displayed, so that the operator can easily eliminate the duplication by correcting the registered contents.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a scanner 1 reads a document image to extract image information, and a plotter 2 records an image on recording paper line by line.

The encoding / decoding unit 3 compresses data of image information to be transmitted by encoding using a known encoding method, and decodes received image information to reproduce the original image information. The pattern generator 4 converts character code information into dot pattern image information when displaying or recording characters.

The modem 5 transmits and modulates and demodulates image information and transmits various procedure signals for transmission control. The network control device 6 is connected to a telephone line and performs predetermined line control for making and receiving calls.

The operation display unit 7 allows the operator to perform various operations while the device displays various information. The operation display unit 8 includes a display 7a for displaying character information, a numeric keypad 7b for inputting a telephone number, a one-touch key 7c for one-touch dial operation, and various known keys for starting and stopping communication. Has been established. One-touch key 7c
Are a plurality of keys sequentially numbered from the first.

The system memory 8 stores various information necessary for the operation of the apparatus, in addition to the registration information of the simple dial.
The system control unit 9 is a microcomputer that controls the above units. The system bus 10 is a signal line through which the above-described units exchange control signals and data with each other.

When using the facsimile apparatus of the present embodiment with the above configuration, first, a simple dial registration process is performed.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 2, the operator sets a one-touch dial or speed dial registration mode by a predetermined operation of the operation display unit 7 (process 101).

Then, for example, when registering a one-touch dial, press one of the one-touch keys 7c to be registered,
Enter the destination phone number. When registering a speed dial, enter the two-digit number you want to register and use the numeric keypad 7b.
To input the destination telephone number (process 102). It has been customary to input a "-" symbol at an arbitrary position of a telephone number in order to adjust a time interval at which a dial signal of each digit is transmitted at the time of calling. When inputting the destination telephone number, the "-" symbol is input as necessary.

In the system memory 8, a storage area for storing these registration information is formed. When the destination telephone number is input by the above operation, the facsimile apparatus searches whether the destination telephone number is already stored in the system memory 8. In this search, the "-" symbol stored together with the telephone number is ignored, and only the number information is collated (process 103).

If it is a new destination telephone number (Y in step 104), the input destination telephone number is stored in correspondence with the one-touch key or the speed dial (step 105).

On the other hand, if the input destination telephone number has already been registered (N in process 104), the display 7a displays a registered warning such as, for example, "registered in speed dial 10." Is performed (process 106). Then, the process returns to the input state (to process 102).

 The above process is repeated for each destination.

Thereby, as shown in FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b), the destination telephone number corresponding to each key of the one-touch key 7c and each abbreviated number is stored in the system memory 8.

Next, when making a call with this facsimile machine, as shown in FIG. 4, the operator dials the destination and starts communication. In this case, the dialing operation of the destination may be performed by directly inputting the destination telephone number with the numeric keypad 7b or by using the registered simple dial (process 201).

When the facsimile apparatus starts the operation by the above-mentioned start operation, it determines the executed dial operation (step 20).
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Then, when the one-touch dial is dialed by abbreviated dialing (Y in processing 202), the one-touch dial is immediately transmitted to the corresponding destination telephone number stored in the system memory 8 to execute a predetermined facsimile communication ( Processing 20
3).

On the other hand, when the destination telephone number is directly input by the ten keys 7b (N in process 202), it is searched whether the destination telephone number is stored in the system memory 8 as a simple dial (process 204).

As a result, if the destination telephone number is not stored (N in process 205), communication with the destination is immediately executed (to process 203). On the other hand, if the destination telephone number is stored (Y in process 205), for example, “speed dial 10
You are registered with Is displayed (processing 20
6). Thereafter, the communication operation is performed in the same manner (step 203).
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As described above, in the present embodiment, at the time of simple dial registration, if the destination to be registered has already been registered, the facsimile apparatus displays a warning to that effect. Thereby, the operator can easily prevent duplicate registration.

In addition, when making a call by directly dialing with the numeric keypad 7b, if a telephone number registered in simple dialing is input, it is displayed that registration has been completed. Thus, the operator can make a call using a simple dial from the next time, so that the registered contents of the simple dial can be effectively used.

 Next, another embodiment of the present invention will be described.

The facsimile apparatus of this embodiment has the same configuration as that of the above-described embodiment and has a simple dial function. On the other hand, in the above-described embodiment, as described with reference to FIG. 2, at the time of simple dial registration, duplication of the same destination is checked. However, in this embodiment, the check function is not provided.

FIG. 5 shows a process in which the facsimile apparatus of the present embodiment records and outputs a registration list indicating registered contents of a simple dial.

That is, when outputting this registration list, the operator designates one-touch dialing or abbreviated dialing by a predetermined operation and activates the facsimile apparatus (step 30).
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When the facsimile apparatus is started, first, the title of the designated registration list and the heading of the item are recorded on a recording paper (process 302).

Next, the facsimile apparatus reads one piece of registration information stored in the system memory 8 (process 304). Then, the number or abbreviated number of the one-touch key 7c and the corresponding destination telephone number are recorded (process 304).

Next, it is searched whether the destination telephone number is duplicated with another touch key 7c or abbreviated number (process 30).
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As a result, if there is no overlap (N in process 306), it is checked whether or not reading of all stored information has been completed (process 307). If not (N in process 307), the same process is repeated (process 303). What).

On the other hand, if the destination telephone number has been registered
306, Y), the number or abbreviated number of the duplicated one-touch key 7c is recorded (process 308).

Such processing is repeated one by one, and when all the cases are processed (Y in step 307), the above-described registration list output processing ends.

FIG. 6 shows a recording example of the one-touch dial registration list. That is, at the head of the recording paper, a title 401 of the registration list and a heading 402 of the recording item are recorded. Below that, the number 403 of the one-touch key 7c and the corresponding destination telephone number 404 are recorded. In addition, in the item of “Remarks”, the abbreviated number 405 that has been duplicately registered is displayed. In this example, it is displayed that the one-touch key “2” and the speed dial “10” are the same telephone number.

As described above, in the present embodiment, items that have been repeatedly registered are displayed on the simple dial registration list.

As a result, the operator can easily know the duplicated location and correct the registered content, thereby eliminating unnecessary duplicate registration.

In each of the above embodiments, if the input destination telephone number has already been registered, text information is displayed on the display to that effect.For example, the corresponding one-touch key lamp is turned on. Of course, other display methods may be used.

Also, the description has been made assuming that the facsimile apparatus has a one-touch dial function and a speed dial function. However, the present invention is not limited to the facsimile apparatus, and is similarly applied to various communication apparatuses using a telephone or a public telephone line. It is natural to get out.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily know the duplicate registration of the simple dial such as the one-touch key and the abbreviated number, and eliminate the useless duplicate registration by correcting the registered contents to thereby simplify the simple dial. Effective use can be achieved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart of a simple dial registration process, FIG. 3 (a) is an explanatory diagram of one-touch dial registration information, and FIG. ) Is an explanatory diagram of registration information of abbreviated dialing, FIG. 4 is an operation flowchart of transmission processing, FIG. 5 is an operation flowchart of registration list output processing in another embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is recording of a one-touch dial registration list. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example. 1 ... Scanner 2 ... Plotter 3 ... Encoding / decoding unit 4 ... Pattern generator 5 ... Modem 6
... Network control device, 7 ... Operation display unit, 7a ... Display unit, 7b ...
… Numeric keys, 7c… one-touch keys, 8… system memory, 9… system control unit.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A communication device having a function for registering a simple dial such as a one-touch key or an abbreviated number and a calling function, wherein a list of destination telephone numbers corresponding to the simple dial registered in response to a simple dial registration list output request. A communication device comprising: a list output unit that outputs a list; and a duplicate display unit that displays a list indicating that the same destination telephone number is duplicated and outputs the list.