JP3255972B2 - Facsimile machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus, and more particularly to a transmission means for facsimile communication, in which image information is transmitted to one of the receivers, or when a busy state or a poor line condition occurs. The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus capable of setting the other receiver as a transfer destination and notifying the receiver that the image information has been transferred as voice or a transfer report to the one receiver.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional facsimile apparatus provided with a recall function has been called at the time of transmission, but due to busy conditions, the call failed or the call was successful, but the other party's convenience and line conditions were poor. Therefore, if the image information cannot be completely transmitted, the other party is re-called by the preset number of calls and the image information is transmitted. However, in such a conventional facsimile apparatus, since the number of recalls by the recall function is fixedly set in advance, when transmitting to a party with a high usage rate of the facsimile apparatus, the preset recall number is set. There was a problem in that the call was not successful and could not be transmitted by the number of times.

[0003] In order to solve this problem, for example, a "facsimile apparatus" has been proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-60370. In this publication, if a call fails, the call is repeated until the call succeeds, and if the transmission of the image information fails after the success of the call, the transmission of the image information fails. The number of retransmissions corresponding to the cause is set, and only the set number of retransmissions is performed. As described above, in the conventional facsimile apparatus, when the transmission of the image transmission fails, a method of repeatedly redialing or transferring the image data to another receiver has been used. On the transmission side, the number of redials can be set for redialing, and transfer to another receiver can be set for a transfer destination.

In particular, in a transmitter in which transmission information (image information) is temporarily stored in a memory and then redialed N times in a transmission system, the number of redials is not increased more than N times and stored in the memory. Either remain or the memory is erased. In this case, no transmission information is provided to the receiving side, and if the transmitting side overlooks the transmission error report, there is a risk that important information is not exchanged because the transmitting side mistakes the transmission error report for a transmission error report. On the other hand, in a facsimile in which the number of redials is not set and dialing is continued until information can be exchanged, when the transmitting side makes a wrong dialing mistake, it causes a great deal of trouble to the wrong dialing destination.

If the memory of the transmission information is not erased, the memory is occupied, which may adversely affect other transmissions and the like. In order to solve this, expensive memory had to be added. There is also a facsimile that can be set in advance to transfer to the other receiver because one receiver is busy or cannot transmit image information due to poor line conditions. The transmission side and the reception side could not easily know whether or not the data was transferred to the server.

[0006]

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and even if one of the receivers fails to exchange image information due to a line failure or a busy line, the image information is transmitted to the other receiver. From the other receiver.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus which can improve the reliability of communication by notifying that the data has been transferred to a communication device.

[0007]

[Configuration] The present invention, in order to achieve the above object, the receiver having a data storage device, a dial number memory,
It has a redial number setting device and a transmitter having an automatic dial device, and when the number of transmission redial times of the transmitter to one receiver becomes N, the other set receiver receives an image. A transfer unit for transferring information, and that when the image information is transferred to the other receiver, the image information is transferred from the transmitter to the other receiver to the other receiver. is obtained characterized by also comprising a notification means for notifying is <br/> one. Hereinafter, a description will be given based on examples of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining an example of a conventional facsimile apparatus. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a transmitter, 2 denotes one receiver, and 3 denotes the other receiver. The transmitter 1 attempts to transmit image information to the one receiver 2. However, the image information cannot be transmitted to the one receiver 2 while the line is in use or for some reason. Then,
The transmitting side determines that there is no communication and transfers the image information to the other receiver 3. After transmitting the image information to the other receiver 3, the transmitter 1 transmits a report (transfer report) to one receiver 2 that the image information has been transferred to the other receiver 3.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing another example of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, and the reference numerals in FIG. 2 are the same as those in FIG. The transmitter 1 attempts to transmit image information to one receiver. However, the image information cannot be transmitted to one receiver 2 while the line is in use or for some reason. Then, the transmitting side determines that there is no communication and transfers the image information to the other receiver 3. Image information to the other receiver 3
Send to The other receiver 3 has one receiver 2
A report (transfer report) indicating that the image information has been transferred from the transmitter 1 to the other receiver 3 is transmitted.

[0010] Figure 3 is a facsimile apparatus shown in FIG. 1
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example in which a voice synthesizer is added, and reference numerals in the figure are the same as those in FIG. The transmitter attempts to transmit image information to one receiver 2. However, the image information cannot be transmitted to one receiver 2 while the line is in use or for some reason. Then, the transmitting side determines that there is no communication and transfers the image information to the other receiver 3.
After transmitting the image information to the other receiver 3, the transmitter 1 designates one of the receivers 2 after a while to notify the transfer that the image information has been transferred to the other receiver 3. When the telephone number is called out and the line is connected, the name of the transmitting side, the contact information, the transfer destination, and the time are notified by a synthesized voice with the contents set in advance.

[0011] Figure 4 is a facsimile apparatus shown in FIG. 2
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example in which a voice synthesizer is added, and reference numerals in the figure are the same as those in FIG. The transmitter 1 attempts to transmit image information to the one receiver 2. However, the image information cannot be transmitted to the one receiver 2 while the line is in use or for some reason. Then, the transmitting side determines that there is no communication and transfers the image information to the other receiver 3.
After receiving the image information, the other receiver 3 sends a notification to the other receiver 3 to the effect that the image information has been transferred from the transmitter 1 to the other receiver 3. After a while, the designated telephone number is called and, when the line is connected, the name of the transmitting side, the contact information, the transfer destination, and the time are notified of the transfer by the synthetic voice with the preset contents.

In the above-described structure, it is possible to print out a part of the first page of the transmission original simultaneously with the transfer report. In the third and fourth synthesized voices, the voice may be repeatedly emitted several times. 5 is a transfer report on the transmitter side, and FIG.
FIG. 7 shows a transfer report from one receiver to another receiver.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, in which 7 is an FCU, 8 is a data storage device, 9 is an automatic dial device, and 10 is an NCU (Network Co.).
ntrolUnit: network controller), 11 is a clock, 1
2 is a redial number setting device, 13 is a synthesized voice generating device, and 14 is a dial number storage device.

FIGS. 9 and 10 are flow charts for explaining the operation of the facsimile apparatus of FIG. First, determine whether the original is set (step
1) If the original is set, then it is determined whether or not it is a memory transmission (step 2). If it is a memory transmission, it is next determined whether or not the transfer report mode is set (step 3).
Four). Next, it is determined whether the start button has been pressed (step
5) If pressed, then determine if it is a line connection (s
tep6). If connected, perform data transmission processing (step
7) It is determined whether or not it is the data end (step 8). If it is not the data end, the process returns to step 7. In step 6, if there is no line connection, L = L + 1 (step 9),
N ≦ L is determined (step 10). If N ≦ L is not satisfied, the process returns to step 6 in FIG.

In step 2, if it is not a memory transmission, a destination dial is input (step 11), and it is determined whether or not a line is connected (step 12). If it is a connection, a data transmission process is performed (step 13), Judge whether it is the data end (s
tep14). If it is not the data end, the process returns to step 13; if it is the data end, the communication management report is discharged (step 15), and the process returns to step 1 in the figure. Said
In step 12, if it is not a line connection, L = L + 1 is set (step 16), and N ≦ L is determined (step 17). If N ≦ L, the process returns to step 11 in FIG.

In step 3, if the mode is the transfer report mode, a destination dial is input (step 18), a destination dial is input (step 19), and the number of calls N before transfer is input (step 20). Decide whether to send the transfer report to the receiving side, '1' if sending, '0' if not
(Step 21). Next, it is determined whether or not the start button has been pressed (step 22), and the data is stored in the memory (step 2).
3). Next, a destination dial is inputted (step 24), and it is determined whether or not the line is connected (step 25). If it is a line connection, a data transmission process is performed (step 26), and it is determined whether or not it is a data end (step 27). If it is the data end, the communication report is discharged (step 28), the memory is erased (step 29),
That is, the process returns to step 1.

In step 25, if there is no line connection, M = M + 1 is set (step 30), and N ≦ M is determined (step 3).
1). If N.ltoreq.M, the process returns to step 24. If N.ltoreq.M, the destination dial is input (step 32). Next, it is determined whether or not it is a line connection (step 33). If it is a line connection, data transmission processing is performed (step 34), and if it is a data end, it is determined (step 35).
If it is a data end, the process returns to step 28.
In step 33, if there is no line connection, L = L +
1 (step 36), N ≦ L is determined (step 37), and if N ≦ L, the process returns to step 32. If N ≦ L, then X
It is determined whether = 1 or X = 0 (step 38). X =
If 0, the memory is erased (step 39) and the process returns to step 28. If X = 1, the timer is operated sufficiently (step 40).

Next, a destination dial is inputted (step 41),
It is determined whether or not it is a line connection (step 42). If it is a line connection, transfer report data sending processing is performed (step 43), and it is determined whether or not it is a data end (step 44). If it is not the data end, the process returns to step 43, and if it is the data end, the process returns to step 28. In step 42, if there is no line connection, L = L + 1 is set (step 45), and it is determined whether N ≦ L (step 46). If not N ≦ L, the process returns to step 42. Return to step28.

[0019]

As is clear from the above description, the present invention
Has the following effects. Bad line on one receiver
The image information
To the other receiver even if the
Transfer information,The other receiver istransferIsThatOn reception
One receiver failedTo notify the reliability of communication
Is improved. The transmitter and one of the receivers were far away
The other receiver points to a communicator near one receiver.
If you set it, I will send it from the transmitter to one receiver many times
Communication costs can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram illustrating an example of a facsimile machine.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing another example of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows a speech synthesis performed by the facsimile apparatus shown in FIG . 1;
It is a figure showing the example at the time of adding a device .

FIG. 4 is a transmission redirect of the facsimile apparatus shown in FIG . 2;
Dialing times and times, reasons why transmission failed, and forwarding destination
It is a figure showing that it is a transfer report which consists of sending time .

FIG. 5 It is a figure showing a transfer report of a transmitting side.

FIG. 6 It is a figure showing a transfer report of one receiver.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a transfer report from the other receiver to the one receiver according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a view showing a flowchart (No. 1) for explaining the operation of the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 8;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart (part 2) for explaining the operation of the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 8;

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Transmitter, 2 ... One receiver, 3 ... The other receiver, 7
... FCU, 8 ... Data storage device, 9 ... Automatic dialing device, 10 ... NCU (Network Control Unit), 11 ... Clock, 12 ... Redial count setting device, 13 ... Synthesis voice generator, 14 ... Dial number Storage device.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A receiver having a data storage device, a dial number storage device, a redial number setting device, and a transmitter having an automatic dial device, wherein the number of transmission redials of the transmitter to one receiver is provided. Means for transferring image information to the other set receiver when the set number of times becomes N, and one receiving means for receiving the image information from the other receiver when the image information is transferred to the other receiver. machine to a notification means for notifying that the image information from the transmitter has been transferred to the other receiver, the notification is sent redial count and time,
A facsimile apparatus characterized in that the facsimile apparatus is a transfer report including a reason why transmission was not possible, a transfer destination and a transfer time.