JP3181476B2 - 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 including an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine having a facsimile function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, facsimile apparatuses having various functions have been proposed due to multifunctional facsimile apparatuses. For example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 3-262269 (first
In the prior art example), a cover identification code is provided at the top of the transmission original cover in the sub-scanning direction, and the destination telephone number is written in the part next to the top of the transmission document. A facsimile apparatus has been proposed in which a telephone number is read from the cover of a transmission document, an automatic call is made to the read destination telephone number, and a document other than a specific portion is automatically transmitted to the destination. In such a facsimile apparatus, various types of transmission originals having different destinations are superimposed and set on the facsimile apparatus with a transmission original cover indicating a cover identification symbol and a destination telephone number attached thereto. In addition, various types of originals can be automatically transmitted to different destinations.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 4-140963 (second conventional example) discloses that a character written in a halftone density on a document or a character in an area specified by a halftone density is used as a destination telephone number. A facsimile apparatus is disclosed in which a special transmission sheet on which a telephone number is described can be made unnecessary by reading and automatically making a call.

Further, Japanese Patent Laid-Open Publication No. Hei 4-309069 (third conventional example) stores in advance telephone numbers of a plurality of destination facsimile apparatuses corresponding to a transmission source and transmits the transmission numbers included in the reception information. There is disclosed a facsimile apparatus which detects original data and transfers the received image data to a plurality of destination facsimile machines corresponding thereto.

[0005] Also, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 6-22022 (4th edition)
Is a dialing apparatus that stores a telephone number and a name as telephone directory data, searches for a telephone number by name, and automatically makes a call, and manually inputs a telephone number to make a call. At the time of dialing, the manually entered telephone number data is temporarily stored, and the telephone book data can be easily added from the manually entered name data and the temporarily stored telephone number data following the telephone number. There is disclosed a dial transmission device capable of performing such operations.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned first conventional example, it is necessary to write the telephone number of the destination on the cover of the dedicated transmission original, and the destination name and the telephone number of the destination are indispensable for the transmission original. Both of these must be described, and there is a problem that the document creation work at the time of transmission becomes complicated.

In the second conventional example, it is necessary to write the telephone number of the destination or specify an area for specifying the telephone number portion by using a writing instrument having a halftone density. Both have to be described in the manuscript, which is the same problem as the first conventional example.

In the third conventional example, since the implemented image data is transferred to a predetermined number of destinations corresponding to the source, it is not possible to specify the destination for each document. There is a problem in that the contents of the document are transferred to a department that does not need to do so, or a document that needs to keep confidential to other than a specific department is transferred to a number of departments, and the confidential state cannot be maintained.

In the fourth conventional example, it is necessary to manually input a destination name corresponding to a telephone number when creating a telephone directory file, and there is a problem that the process of creating telephone directory data becomes complicated.

[0010] An object of the present invention is to eliminate the need to write the telephone number of a destination on a transmission original, transfer a received original to a different destination for each original, and furthermore, create a destination name when creating telephone directory data. Without having to manually enter
An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile apparatus which can easily perform a process of transmitting a fax document and a process of managing a destination.

[0011]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image reading means for reading an image of an original, a transmitting / receiving means for transmitting / receiving image data to / from another apparatus via a public telephone line, Image forming means for forming an image of a document read by the image reading means and an image received by the transmission / reception means, wherein a single or plural images are read from the image read by the image reading means or the image received by the transmission / reception means. Destination information extracting means for extracting the destination information of the user, storing means for storing the relationship between the destination information and the telephone number, and storing telephone numbers corresponding to each of the single or plural pieces of destination information extracted by the destination information extracting means. The telephone number reading means read from the means and the telephone number read by the telephone number reading means is the telephone number of the own department or the telephone number of another department.
Phone number determining means for determining whether the
Image reading means when the telephone number is the telephone number of the own department
Display the image read by the
While supplying the image to the image forming means,
If the telephone number is for a department,
Automatically calling the public telephone number to a public telephone line and reading the image
Image read by means or image received by transmission / reception means
And switching means for transmitting

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the switching means
Is read based on the destination information extracted from the received image.
If the issued phone number is a phone number of another department,
Create and receive a notice manuscript that announces the telephone number of the other department
The telephone number of the sender extracted from the image
It is characterized by including a means for automatically calling and transmitting the image of the notification manuscript .

[0013]

[0014]

[0015]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the destination information is extracted from the image read by the image reading means or the image received by the transmission / reception means, and the destination information is stored in the storage means in which the relationship between the destination information and the telephone number is stored in advance. The phone number corresponding to the information is read, and this phone number is the
Or image reading depending on whether it is a telephone number of another department
Image read by means or image received by transmission / reception means
Is supplied to the image forming means to form an image or
Is automatically connected to the public telephone line via
The call is sent dynamically. Therefore, facsimile machine
The image addressed to the department where the
Formed and output, and sent to other departments
The image of the original is transferred to the department.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the receiving
Out based on the destination information extracted from the scanned image.
When the talk number is a telephone number of another department,
Prepares a notice manuscript that announces the telephone numbers of other departments
Then, the created notification manuscript is transmitted to the transmission source. Accordingly
Received a fax manuscript sent to another department by mistake
The correct fax number for the sender
Is announced.

[0017]

[0018]

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to a copying machine having a fax function. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a copying machine having a fax function.
Is a schematic diagram of the operation panel. A photosensitive drum 1 is rotatably arranged at the center of the copying machine main body 10. Around the photosensitive drum 1, a charger 1a, a black developing tank 1b, a yellow developing tank 1c, a magenta developing tank 1d,
A cyan developing tank 1e, a cleaner 1f, and a static elimination lamp 1g are arranged in this order. Cyan developing tank 1e and cleaner 1
The transfer intermediate 2 is provided between the transfer intermediate 2 and the transfer intermediate f. A transfer unit 2a and a cleaner 2b are arranged around the transfer intermediate 2. An optical system device 3 is arranged in an upper part in the copying machine main body 10. The optical system device 3 includes a document reading unit 31
And a laser driver unit 32. The document reading unit 31 includes light sources 3a and 3b, mirrors 3c to 3e, a lens 3f, and a CCD sensor 3g.

The original reading unit 31 irradiates the original set on the original table 4 with light and reads the reflected light as image data. The read image data is processed in the image processing unit and sent to the laser driver unit 32. The laser driver unit 32 drives a laser based on the image data and outputs a laser beam. This laser light is distributed to the photosensitive drum 1 via the mirrors 32a and 32b. Before the laser beam is irradiated, the surface of the photoreceptor drum 1 is charged by the charging member 1a, and an electrostatic latent image is formed by the laser beam irradiation. This electrostatic latent image is visualized by receiving and supplying toner from any of the developing tanks 1 b to 1 e, and a toner image is formed on the surface of the photosensitive drum 1. This toner image is transferred to the transfer intermediate 2.

A paper cassette 5 is mounted on the right side of the copying machine body 10. The paper cassette 5 stores paper of a predetermined size. Further, a fixing device 6 is provided on the lower left side in the copying machine main body 10. Paper cassette 5
Is transported between the transfer device 2a and the transfer intermediate 2, and the toner on the transfer intermediate 2 is transferred onto the paper by the transfer device 2a. The sheet on which the toner image has been transferred passes through the fixing device 6, and the toner image on the sheet is fused and fixed on the sheet.

An operation panel 9 is provided on the upper surface of the copying machine main body 10 provided with a document cover 8 for opening and closing the upper surface of the document table 7. The operation panel 9 includes a copy switch 92 operated when copying an image of a document placed on the document table 7 onto a sheet stored in the paper cassette 5, and an image on the document table 7 by a public telephone. A transmission switch 93 that is operated when transmitting via a line is arranged near the numeric keypad 91. The numeric keypad 91 is used for inputting the number of copies at the time of multi-copy and for inputting a telephone number of a transmission destination when transmitting a fax document.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the structure of the copying machine. The selection circuit 11 switches between transmission and reception of an image signal. The auto dialer 12 automatically calls a telephone number of a transmission destination to a public telephone line. Phonebook memory 1
3 stores the relationship between a plurality of destinations and telephone numbers. The modem 14 modulates and demodulates the image signal to be transmitted. The encoding unit 15 encodes image data of a document read by the document reading unit 31. The decoding unit 16 decodes the image signal demodulated by the modem 14 into image data. The scanning document memory 17 temporarily stores image data of the document read by the document reading unit 31.

The received original memory 18 temporarily stores the image data decoded by the decoding section 16. The character recognition memory 19 temporarily stores the image of the document read by the document reading unit 31 and the image data stored in the received document memory 18 for character recognition processing. The character recognition unit 20 performs character recognition on a specific position of the image data stored in the character recognition memory 19. The laser driver 32 irradiates the photosensitive drum 1 with a laser beam for forming an electrostatic latent image as described above. The copy document memory 21 stores the image data of the document read by the document reading unit 31 in the same manner as the scan document memory 17 and the character recognition memory 19. The image data stored in the copy document memory 21 is supplied to the laser driver 32.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the control unit of the copying machine. When the print switch 92 is operated on the operation panel 9 (n1), the control unit 23
Is a document table 7 by the document reading unit 31 of the optical system device 3.
The image of the upper document is read (n2). The read image data is similarly stored in each of the scanning document memory 17, the character recognition memory 19, and the copy document memory 21. Next, a destination is extracted by the character recognition unit 20 from a specific position of the image data stored in the character recognition memory 19 (n3). The transmission original placed on the platen 7 is prepared in a predetermined format shown in FIG.
Reference numeral 0 denotes an image of the destination description section 51 which is set in advance as a position where a destination to which a fax is to be transmitted is extracted from a character feature such as isolated figure separation, stroke extraction separation, and the like. Character recognition is performed by a method such as a method or a structural analysis method.

The isolated figure separation method in character feature extraction is based on the fact that characters are generally small and isolated.
In this method, image data is separated into connected graphic units, and whether the graphic is a character or a line drawing is determined based on whether the circumscribed rectangle size of the graphic matches the character size.
The stroke extraction / separation method is a method in which a stroke is detected from the direction of each segment constituting a figure, and a character having a stroke longer than a certain length is not a character. Also,
The superposition method in character recognition is to obtain a degree of coincidence by sequentially superimposing character patterns storing graphics determined as characters by feature extraction. The feature extraction method is for extracting the presence or absence of character features such as line segments, curves, enclosures, turbid spots, and splashes. The structural analysis method is a method of separating characters into constituent elements and analyzing the characteristics and relationships of each.

A corresponding telephone number is searched in the telephone directory memory 13 based on the destination read by the above character recognition (n6). At this time, it is checked whether or not the read telephone number is the telephone number of the department where the copying machine is installed (n7). If the telephone number is not the telephone number of the own department, the telephone number is sent to the auto dialer 12. The telephone number is supplied to automatically make a call to the public telephone line 22 (n8). When the line is connected, the image data in the scanning document memory 17 is encoded by the encoding unit 1.
5, the transmission data is encoded and transmitted to the public telephone line 22 via the modem 14 and the selection circuit 11 (n
9).

If character extraction is not possible in the destination extraction processing in n3, and if the telephone number searched in n7 is the telephone number of the own department, the image data stored in the copy original memory 21 is scanned by laser. To the driver 32 to execute the image forming process (n1
0).

With the above processing, the original reading unit 31
Judge whether the scanned original is a facsimile original to be sent to a place other than the department where the copier is installed, and determine whether the original is a fax other than the original sent by fax or the fax sent to that department. If the document is a document, a normal image forming process is performed. If the document is a fax document to be transmitted to another department, the read image can be automatically transmitted through a public telephone line.

It should be noted that even a fax document to be transmitted to another department may be copied for confirmation or the like. In such a case, an automatic transmission mode for canceling the automatic transmission mode provided on the operation panel 9 is provided. By releasing the automatic transmission mode by operating the switch, the image of the document read by the document reading unit 31 can always be copied.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing the processing when the copying machine receives a fax. Upon receiving a call signal from the public telephone line 22, the selection circuit 11 connects the receiving circuit to the public telephone line 22. As a result, the transmission data is received, and the received transmission data is demodulated by the modem 14 and then decoded by the decoding unit 16 into image data, and the received document memory 18 and the character recognition memory 19
(N11). Next, a character extraction process and a character recognition process are performed from a specific portion of the image data stored in the character recognition memory 19 by processes similar to the above-mentioned n3 to n5 (n12 to n14).

When a destination is extracted by character recognition, a corresponding telephone number is searched in the telephone directory memory 13 based on the destination (n15). It is determined whether or not the searched telephone number is the telephone number of the department where the copying machine is installed (n16). If the telephone number is the telephone number of the own department, it is stored in the received document memory 18. The image data is supplied to the laser driver 32 to perform a print output process (n1
9). If the telephone number searched in n15 is not the number of the own department, the searched telephone number is stored in the auto dialer 1
2 to make a call to the public telephone line 22 (n17), and encodes the image data stored in the received original memory 18 into transmission data in the encoding unit 15;
And transmission via the selection circuit 11 (n18).

With the above-described processing, the destination is character-recognized from the image of the received fax document, and if the fax document is transmitted to the department where the copying machine is installed, the image forming unit of the copying machine is If the fax is sent to another department, the fax number can be automatically sent to the public telephone line and the fax can be forwarded to the destination department. it can.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart showing the processing when the fax telephone number of the destination department described in the received fax manuscript has been changed. The aforementioned n
After searching for the telephone number corresponding to the destination extracted from the fax manuscript received by the same processing as 11 to n16,
It is determined whether or not the telephone number is the telephone number of the own department (n21 to n26). If the retrieved telephone number is the telephone number of the own department, print output processing is performed (n2
7) If it is a telephone number of another department, n18,
By the same processing as n19, the telephone number is called to the public telephone line 22, and the image of the received fax document is transferred (n28, n29).

Thereafter, the source of the fax document is extracted from the source area 52 (see FIG. 5) of the image data stored in the character recognition memory 19. This extraction process is n3
This is performed by the same character extraction and character recognition processing as in (n30 to n32). A corresponding telephone number is searched in the telephone directory memory 13 by the extracted transmission source (n3
3) Create a notification text format (n34). This notification text format is stored in the memory of the control unit 23 in advance, and is, for example, a facsimile document shown in FIG.
The source is inserted into the destination portion 81, and a predetermined notification text 82 is inserted. At this time, the telephone number searched in n25 is also printed. Next, the telephone number searched in n33 is called to the public telephone line 22 (n35), and the created fax manuscript is transmitted (n36).

According to the above-described processing, when a fax original destined for another department and transmitted is received, a correct fax number can be notified to the transmission source.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a process when a plurality of destinations are described in a received fax document. When a fax manuscript is received, n11 to n
The received data is stored and the destination is extracted by the same processing as in step 14 (n41 to n44). Next, the number of the extracted destinations is counted (n45). Thereafter, the telephone numbers corresponding to each of the plurality of extracted destinations are sequentially searched one by one (n46), and after checking whether or not the telephone number is of the own department (n47), the fax addressed to the own department is searched. If the document is a manuscript, a printout process is performed (n48), and if the document is a fax manuscript addressed to another department, a call is made to the retrieved telephone number and the received image data is transferred (n49, n5).
0). The processing of n46 to n50 is performed for all extracted destinations (n51, n52).

With the above processing, when a plurality of destinations are entered in the received fax document, the image data of the received fax document can be transferred to all the destinations.

FIG. 10 is a flow chart showing a process when a facsimile original is transmitted from the copying machine to a plurality of destinations. After the operation of the print switch 92, the image of the original is read (n61, n62), and the destination is extracted from the image of the facsimile original by the same processing as n3 to n5 (n63 to n65). Next, after counting the number of destinations (n66), a telephone number is searched for each of the plurality of destinations in order (n67). If the searched telephone number is the telephone number of the own department, the image data in the copy original memory 21 is supplied to the laser driver 32 to execute the image copy processing (n68, n69). If the destination is another department, the retrieved telephone number is called to the public telephone line 22 and the image data stored in the scanned document memory 17 is transmitted (n70, n71). The processing of n67 to n72 is executed for all destinations (n72, n73).

By writing a plurality of destinations at predetermined positions of the fax original by the above processing, the image of the original can be sequentially transmitted to a plurality of destinations to which the fax original is to be transmitted.

It should be noted that the determination that a plurality of addresses are entered in the fax manuscript can be made by, for example,
Characters such as "part", "sama", and "dono" are extracted, and the determination can be made based on whether or not there are a plurality of identical characters.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a process of transferring a fax document by using an information code. FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a copying machine used for a fax document transfer process using the information code. In the block diagram shown in FIG. A memory 60 and an information code recognition unit 61;
2 is provided. The other parts are denoted by the same reference numerals as in FIG. 3 and the description is omitted. Information code recognition memory 6
0 stores image data read by the received document reading unit 31 or image data of a fax document received from the selection circuit 11 via the modem 14 and the decoding unit 16. The information code memory 62 stores a relationship between an information code registered in advance and a telephone number.

When receiving the fax original, the control unit 23 stores the received data in the received original memory 18 and the information code recognition memory 60 (n81), and n3 to n5.
An information code extraction process is performed by the same process as (n8).
2 to n84). The extracted information code is searched in the information code memory 62 (n85), and if the information code is registered in advance, the corresponding telephone number is read (n86, n87). Further, it is determined whether or not the read telephone number is the telephone number of the own department (n88).
If it is the telephone number of the own department, the image data stored in the received document memory 18 is supplied to the laser driver 32 to perform a print output process (n89). If the read telephone number is a telephone number of another department, the public telephone line 22
(N90), the image data stored in the received document memory 18 is encoded into transmission data by the encoding unit 15, and transferred via the modem 14 and the selection circuit 11 (n91).

If the information code could not be extracted or if the extracted information code was not registered in the information code memory 62, neither the printout process nor the image transmission process is performed.

By the above-described processing, for example, a fax manuscript whose contents should be kept confidential can be transferred to a destination to be transmitted accurately using a communication code registered in advance.
There is no accidental transfer to another department or printout processing in the own department.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the control unit of the facsimile apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention . The image of the original is scanned by the original reading unit 31 shown in FIG. 3, and the read image is stored in the scanned original memory 17 and the character recognition memory 19 (n10).
1). The image data stored in the character recognition memory 19 is subjected to character recognition by the character recognition unit 20 by a character recognition method such as a superposition method, a feature extraction method, or a structure analysis method (n102). In this character recognition processing, the address and facsimile number detected at a specific position of the document are detected (n103, n104). A telephone directory is created based on the detected address and facsimile number, and stored in the telephone directory memory 13. (N105, n106). Thus, according to the present embodiment, the address and the fax number described in the transmission original can be read, and the contents of the telephone directory memory 13 can be automatically created. In addition, the specific position of the original from which the address and the fax number are to be extracted is specified, for example, by specifying a specific position in advance in a fax original of a predetermined format and limiting the extraction area of the address and the fax number by character recognition. The telephone directory creation process can be completed in a short time.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure for creating a telephone directory memory by reading an address and a telephone number from a received document. A fax signal transmitted via a public telephone line is selected by a selection circuit 11 and a modem 14.
, The received fax signal is decoded by the decoding unit 16
At (n121) and stored in the received document memory 18 (n122). The document data stored in the received document memory 18 is copied to a character recognition memory 19 (n
123), a character recognition process is performed in the character recognition unit 20 from the image data of the received document stored in the character recognition memory 19 (n124). This character recognition process uses a known character recognition method such as a superposition method, a feature extraction method, or a structure analysis method, and extracts a sender and a fax number from image data in a header portion of a received document, and extracts the extracted sender. Data as contents of the telephone directory memory 13 is created based on the name and the fax number (n125 to n127). The telephone directory data thus created is stored in the telephone directory memory 13 (n128).

By the above processing, the sender name and the fax number written in the header portion of the received fax document are read, and the telephone directory data constituting the telephone directory memory can be automatically created.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure when telephone directory data is created based on the contents of the information code transmitted together with the fax document from the sender when the fax document is received. In the configuration shown in FIG. 12, the control unit 23 copies the information code received separately from the image data of the fax document from the received document memory 18 to the information code recognition memory 60, and stores the information code in the information code recognition memory 60. Information code recognition unit 6
In step 1, a recognition process is performed with reference to data stored in the information code memory 62. The sender code and the fax number are recognized from the received information code by this recognition processing, and telephone directory data is created from the sender name and the fax number (n132 to n134). This telephone directory data is stored in the telephone directory memory 13 (n135).

According to the above-described processing, when a fax original is received, telephone directory data can be automatically created from a sender code and a fax number code constituting an information code transmitted separately from the image data of the original.

FIG. 16 shows a case where telephone directory data created by key input, reading from a transmission original, reading from a reception original, or reading from a received information code is transferred to an external terminal device. It is a flowchart which shows a processing procedure. Phonebook memory 13 shown in FIG.
To transfer the telephone directory data stored in the terminal to an external terminal device such as a portable computer, the transfer mode is instructed by operating a telephone directory data transfer key provided on the operation unit 9. When the transfer mode of the telephone directory data is selected by the key operation on the operation unit 9 (n141), the control unit 23 operates.
The telephone directory data is read from the telephone directory memory 13 (n14).
2) Convert each telephone directory data into a transfer code (n14)
3). Next, a signal for confirming whether or not the reception preparation is completed is transmitted to the external terminal device that receives the telephone directory data (n144), and after receiving the response of the reception preparation completion (n145), the transfer is performed. The telephone directory data converted into the code is transmitted (n146, n147). When transmission of all telephone directory data in the telephone directory memory 13 is completed,
A transmission end signal is transmitted (n148), and the end of the transfer process is displayed (n149).

As described above, the telephone directory data created in the facsimile apparatus can be transferred to an external terminal device such as a portable computer, and the telephone directory data can be shared by a plurality of devices. In transmitting and receiving the data, as shown in FIG. 17, by using the infrared transmitting and receiving circuit 141 connected to the control unit 23, the work such as connection of the signal line with the external telephone directory terminal 201 becomes unnecessary. That is, the transfer processing of the telephone directory data can be easily performed.

As shown in FIG. 18, after the transfer of the telephone directory data in the external terminal device, the received telephone directory data is compared with the already stored address book data (n201), and the received telephone directory data is compared. It is determined whether or not data having the same name as the data exists (n20).
2). If there is data having the same name or name as the received telephone directory data in the address book data already stored in the external terminal device, the address book data is rewritten to the received telephone directory data (n203). Alternatively, if there is no address book data having the same name, the telephone directory data is added to the telephone directory memory (n204). Through the above processing, the management of the telephone number in the external terminal device can be performed accurately.

In this embodiment, a copying machine having a facsimile function has been described as an example. However, the present invention can be similarly applied to a general facsimile machine.

[0055]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the destination information is extracted from the image read by the image reading means or the image received by the transmission / reception means, and the telephone number corresponding to the extracted destination information is assigned to the own department. Phone number or other department
The image read by the image reading means according to the talk number
The image or the image received by the transmitting / receiving means is transmitted to the image forming means.
Supply and perform image formation, or the
To automatically send a phone number to a public telephone line and send it
More, along with the transmitted image can be output to image forming for the department facsimile apparatus is installed, the other
The image of the document transmitted to the department can be automatically transferred to the department . Thus, the image of the document can be accurately transmitted to the destination desired by the sender.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the receiving
Phone based on the destination information extracted from the scanned image
If the number is a telephone number of another department,
Create a notice manuscript that announces the story number and create the notice manuscript
By sending to the sender,
If you receive a fax draft addressed to a department,
Enter the correct fax number for the sender of the fax
Can be announced .

[0057]

[0058]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing an upper surface of the facsimile apparatus.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit of the facsimile machine.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a part of a processing procedure of a control unit of the facsimile machine.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a document transmitted in the flowchart.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a part of a processing procedure in the facsimile machine.

FIG. 7 is the same flowchart.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a document transmitted from the facsimile machine.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a part of a processing procedure in the facsimile machine.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of the same.

FIG. 11 is the same flowchart.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit of a facsimile apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing a part of a processing procedure in the facsimile machine.

FIG. 17 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit of a facsimile apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing a part of a processing procedure of an external terminal device that has received data transfer from the facsimile machine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 13-Phonebook memory 19-Character recognition memory 20-Character recognition unit 23-Control unit 31-Document reading unit 32-Laser driver

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Kazunori Iwasa 22-22 Nagaikecho, Abeno-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Inside Sharp Corporation (72) Inventor Yasushi Nakanishi 22-22 Nagaikecho, Abeno-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Sharp Corporation ( 72) Inventor Atsushi Ikukawa 22-22, Nagaike-cho, Abeno-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Inside Sharp Corporation (56) References JP-A-4-199973 (JP, A) JP-A-6-133103 (JP, A) Kaihei 4-85956 (JP, U) JP-A-3-34346 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) H04N 1/32-1/34

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] An image reading means for reading an image of a document, a transmitting / receiving means for transmitting / receiving image data to / from another apparatus via a public telephone line, and an image of the document read by the image reading means and a transmitting / receiving means. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a destination information extracting unit configured to extract one or a plurality of pieces of destination information from an image read by the image reading unit or an image received by the transmitting / receiving unit; Storage means for storing a relationship between information and a telephone number; telephone number reading means for reading from the storage means telephone numbers corresponding to each of the single or plural destination information extracted by the destination information extracting means; and telephone number reading means Is the telephone number of your department or other department
Telephone number determining means for determining whether the telephone number is a telephone number of a station,
If the read phone number is the phone number of your own department,
The image read by the image reading means or the
While supplying the read image to the image forming means,
The transmission / reception means when the talk number is a telephone number of another department.
Automatically call the telephone number to the public telephone line via
The image read by the image reading unit or the image
A facsimile apparatus provided with switching means for transmitting a received image . 2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said switching means extracts an image from a received image.
The phone number read based on the destination information
Announce other department's phone number if it is a talk number
Create a notification manuscript and extract the source
Automatically call the telephone number to the public telephone line and announce the image of the manuscript
2. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for transmitting a fax.