JP3476868B2 - Control method for facsimile machine - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention comprises means for accumulating image information and an optical mark reading function, and a predetermined image number is determined based on information obtained by applying the optical mark reading function to a received image. Execute the relay broadcast communication function, and display the relay result report image showing the communication result of the relay broadcast communication,
The present invention relates to a method for controlling a facsimile device that transmits to a relay request terminal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in a communication terminal device such as a facsimile device, information relating to a relatively new communication function (hereinafter referred to as communication function information), such as transmission of a relay request, is used to negotiate a transmission function. When a new addition is made to the information field of the transmission procedure signal to be exchanged during the transmission procedure, it takes a long time to exchange the transmission procedure signal, and in the old device, the relay request transmission function cannot be used. Such communication function information may be transmitted in the form of transmission data such as image information.

When the communication function information is converted into image information and transmitted, for example, necessary data is written on an OMR (optical mark reading) sheet of a predetermined format, and the OMR sheet is set as the first page of the transmission original. In addition, the image information transmission operation is executed.

Then, the facsimile apparatus having the function of receiving the relay request transmission has the OMR recognition function, and the first page of the received image is converted into the original image signal after the received image information is converted into the original image signal. When the OMR recognition function is applied and the information of the OMR sheet is detected, the first page is recognized as the OMR sheet, and the relay request transmission operation is executed using the recognition data of the OMR recognition function. I have to.

When the relay request transmission operation is completed in this way, a relay result report for notifying the result of the relay transmission is transmitted to the relay request terminal. In addition, a part of the image on the first page of the image file sent by the relay request transmission is added to the relay result report so that the user of the terminal that receives this relay result report determines which relay request result. I am trying to know if it is.

[0006]

However, such a conventional device has the following disadvantages.

That is, when the first page of the image file is added to the relay result report, the first page of the image file is added.
Since the image of the page is the OMR sheet, the content of the OMR sheet is added to the relay result report, and the user of the relay request terminal may not be able to confirm the relay content.

Further, when the confidential mode is designated at the time of the relay request, an image of contents which the third party wants to keep secret is added to the relay result report, which may cause an unfavorable situation.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a control method for a facsimile apparatus capable of transmitting an appropriate relay result report.

[0010]

The present invention comprises image information storage means and an optical mark reading function, and based on information obtained by applying the optical mark reading function to a received image of a predetermined page number. In the control method of the facsimile apparatus for executing the predetermined relay broadcast communication function and transmitting the relay result report image showing the communication result of the relay broadcast communication to the relay request terminal, the relay result report image is received. A part of the image of the page to which the optical mark of the image file is not added and the display information of the page number of the partial image are added.

Further, the image information storage means and the optical mark reading function are provided, and a predetermined relay broadcast communication function is performed based on the information obtained by applying the optical mark reading function to the received image of a predetermined page number. When a confidential mode is specified for the relay broadcast in the control method of the facsimile device that executes and transmits the relay result report image showing the communication result of the relay broadcast, to the relay request terminal, when the confidential mode is specified. While a part of the image of the predetermined page number of the received image file is added to the report image, when the confidential mode is not specified for the relay broadcast communication, the received image is displayed in the relay result report image. A part of the image of the page to which the optical mark of the file is not added is added.

[0012]

[0013]

Therefore, since the image of the page other than the OMR sheet is added to the relay result report, the user of the relay request terminal can confirm the content of the image file for which the relay request has been made. Further, by adding the page number of the added image, the contents of the image file can be confirmed more accurately. If the confidential mode is specified when the relay request is made,
The image of the MR sheet is added or the image is not added so as to hide the contents of communication that the third party does not want to know.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a group 3 facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the system control unit 1 performs control processing of each unit of the facsimile apparatus and facsimile transmission control procedure processing. The system memory 2 is a control processing program executed by the system control unit 1. , And various data necessary for executing the processing program, and constitutes a work area of the system control unit 1. The parameter memory 3 stores various information unique to the group 3 facsimile machine. Is for storing.

The scanner 4 is for reading an original image at a predetermined resolution, the plotter 5 is for recording and outputting an image at a predetermined resolution, and the operation display unit 6 is a facsimile device. For operation,
It consists of various operation keys and various indicators.

The OMR recognizing unit 7 is for recognizing the image of the OMR sheet and recognizing the data recorded on the OMR sheet, and the encoding / decoding unit 8 is
It is for encoding and compressing the image signal, and for decoding the encoded and compressed image information into the original image signal,
The image storage device 9 is for storing a lot of image information in a coded and compressed state.

The group 3 facsimile modem 10 is for realizing the modem function of the group 3 facsimile, and is a low speed modem function (V.21 modem) for exchanging transmission procedure signals and mainly exchanging image information. High-speed modem function (V.33 modem,
V. 29 modem, V.29. 27ter modem).

The network control device 11 is for connecting the facsimile device to a public telephone line network, and has an automatic call originating / receiving function.

These system control unit 1, system memory 2, parameter memory 3, scanner 4, plotter 5, operation display unit 6, OMR recognition unit 7, encoding / decoding unit 8, image storage device 9, group 3 facsimile. Modem 1
0 and the network control device 11 are connected to the system bus 12, and data is exchanged between these elements mainly via the system bus 12.

Data is exchanged directly between the network control device 11 and the group 3 facsimile modem 10.

In this group 3 facsimile apparatus, for each image information stored in the image storage apparatus 9, document management information for managing the processing is formed and stored. An example of this document management information is shown in FIG.

The document management information is document number information indicating a document number for identifying a stored document, and in which mode the stored document is (eg, normal reception, confidential reception, memory transmission, time designation transmission, broadcast transmission, etc.). Document type information for storing whether or not it has been accumulated, processing time of accumulated document (for example,
For sent documents, the send time. Processing time information indicating the reception time in the case of a received document), number information for storing the number of stored documents, and an OMR sheet (described later) for the document.
Destination management for storing identification information such as an OMR identification flag for storing whether or not is added, a start address of destination management information (described later) storing a transmission destination or a relay destination specified in a stored document Pointer and
It consists of a stored document pointer for storing identification information such as the start address of stored document management information (described later) that stores the storage state of stored documents. When the relay mode is designated, relay request source information including destination information of the relay request terminal is also added.

Here, when a plurality of destinations are designated, the destination management pointer is set with the identification information of the destination management information storing the first destination, and invalid if the stored document is a received document. Information is set. Further, in the case of a plurality of stored documents, the stored document pointer is set with the identification information of the stored document management information that stores the storage state of the first page.

An example of the destination management information is shown in FIG.

The destination management information includes instruction mode information indicating attributes of an instruction method of an address (for example, one-touch, shortening, temporary, etc.), number information for storing a number in the instruction method of the address, and information for the address. It is composed of communication result information indicating the communication result and the next destination page pointer for storing the identification information of the destination management information storing the next destination.

Here, the destination is, for example, "shortened 20".
When input with, the instruction mode information contains "shortened".
Is set, and the number information indicates "2
Data representing "0" is set. Further, the attribute of the destination instruction method is temporary, which means that the telephone number is directly specified, and since the telephone number is sequentially stored in the temporary number area, in this case, the number information shows that Data indicating the storage position of the temporary number area is set. If there is no next destination, a predetermined end data is set in the next destination pointer.

An example of the storage management information is shown in FIG.
This storage management information is formed for each page of the stored document.

The storage management information includes storage mode information for storing the encoding mode when the page is stored, linear density information for storing the (transmission) linear density of image information of the page, and the page The size information for storing the size of the image information, the next page pointer for storing the identification information of the stored document management information storing the storage state of the next page, and the image information of the page are stored in the image storage device. It is composed of an image pointer for storing identification information such as the start address of the storage area occupying the area 9.

If there is no next page, a predetermined end data is set in the next page pointer.

The group 3 facsimile apparatus has a relay request transmission function for receiving a relay request from another group 3 facsimile apparatus and transmitting the received image information to a designated relay destination. When the group 3 facsimile apparatus of No. 3 specifies the relay request transmission function, as shown in FIG. 3, the OMR sheet SS for specifying the relay request and the relay destination at the beginning of the transmission document DP to be relay requested. Is placed and the transmission operation is executed. When the relay destination is designated, the one-touch dial or the speed dial stored in the group 3 facsimile apparatus of the relay apparatus is used.

An example of the OMR sheet SS is shown in FIG.

The range of the dimension LS in the main scanning direction and the dimension LM in the sub scanning direction excluding the peripheral portion of the OMR sheet SS is O.
It is set in the effective reading area of the MR. This effective reading area is set as a reading unit area from the leading position ST in the main scanning direction by a predetermined step size SP in the main scanning traveling direction, and the effective reading area of the OMR sheet SS is set in the first reading unit area. A head mark MKst indicating the head of the reading area is recorded, and in the second and third reading unit areas,
Meandering amount mark MK1pp, MK for detecting the meandering amount
2 pp is recorded at both ends in the sub-scanning direction, and an end mark MKed indicating the end of the effective reading area is recorded in the last reading unit area.

In the other reading unit areas, the reading start position mark MK1 indicating the starting position in the sub-scanning direction.
rd and the read end position mark MK2rd indicating the end position
Is recorded and its reading start mark MK1rd
A large number of writing position marks MK representing mark writing positions are recorded at equal intervals between the reading end position mark MK2rd and the reading end position mark MK2rd. Further, the reading start mark MK1rd and the reading end position mark MK2rd
Is also recorded in the reading unit area in which the end mark MKed is recorded.

Here, as the color of the entry position mark MK, a dropout color that cannot be read by the scanner 4 is used, and the leading mark MKst and the meandering amount mark MK1p are used.
p, MK2pp, end mark MKed, read start position mark MK1rd, and read end mark MK2rd
Is recorded in a color that can be reliably read by the scanner 4, for example, black.

When the group 3 facsimile apparatus completes the relay transmission, it edits the relay result report as shown in FIG.
It is being sent to the group 3 facsimile machine that requested the relay.

This relay result report includes a title, "destination", "transfer page", "number of sheets", "attached image information",
Item names such as "result" and display information of values corresponding to the respective items are arranged at predetermined positions, and an image of attached image information is further added. Further, a dashed line image representing the start position of the image is added to the beginning of the image of the attached image information.

With the above configuration, the group 3 facsimile apparatus executes the processing as shown in FIG. 6 to control the operation thereof.

First, at that time, the document management information is checked to see if there is a document that can be transmitted, or if a transmission operation has been performed and whether or not the transmission operation is activated (decision 101), When the result of judgment 101 is NO, it is checked whether an incoming call is detected (decision 10).
2).

When the result of judgment 102 is NO,
It is checked whether another processing request has been issued (decision 103), and when the result of the determination 103 is NO, the process returns to the determination 101.

When the sending operation is activated and the result of judgment 101 is YES, a predetermined sending process (process 104) for sending the sending document at that time to the designated sending destination is executed. , Based on the transmission result,
The content of the document management information is updated (process 105). Then, it is checked whether or not the designated relay communication or relay broadcast communication has ended in the transmission processing ended at this time (decision 106), and when the result of the judgment 106 becomes YES, the above-mentioned relay result The relay result report returning process (process 107) for transmitting the report to the requesting station of the relay communication or the relay broadcast communication at that time is executed, and the determination 10 is made.
Return to 1. When the result of the determination 106 is NO, the process returns to the determination 101.

When an incoming call is detected and the result of the determination 102 is YES, a predetermined incoming call process (process 10)
8) is executed to execute the communication operation in response to the incoming call, and when this incoming call process is finished, the process returns to the decision 101.

When another processing request is issued and the result of the determination 103 is YES, the processing for executing the requested processing is activated (processing 10
9) Then, the procedure returns to decision 101.

An example of the incoming call processing is shown in FIG.

First, the line is closed (process 201), and a predetermined pre-transmission procedure is executed with the partner terminal (process 2).
02), the predetermined image information receiving procedure is executed to receive the image information, and the received image information is stored in the image storage device 9 (process 203). Further, at this time, the above-described storage management information is formed and stored for each stored page. Note that, for example, when the encoding system of the received image information is the MH encoding system with poor encoding efficiency, the MR encoding system with higher encoding efficiency or the MMR encoding system is encoded. It is also possible to store image information in a state in which the conversion method has been converted.

When the image information receiving operation is completed, a predetermined post-transmission procedure is executed with the partner terminal (process 204), the line is restored (process 205), and the document stored at that time is described above. Form and save management information (Process 2)
06). Here, when a communication mode such as a confidential mode is set, the content of the communication mode is set as the content of the "document type".

Next, it is determined whether or not the first page of the document received and accumulated at that time is an OMR sheet, and if it is an OMR sheet, an OMR for analyzing the content thereof. Sheet determination analysis process (process 2
07) is executed, and in this OMR sheet judgment analysis processing,
It is checked whether or not it is determined that "there is a sheet for OMR" (decision 208).

When the result of the judgment 208 is YES, information corresponding to the information obtained by the OMR sheet judgment analysis processing (for example, the destination management information or the relay request necessary for the relay mode) is added to the document management information formed at that time. Original information, etc.) is added to update this document management information (process 209),
A series of receiving operations is completed.

If the result of judgment 208 is NO, it is checked at that time whether or not the received image can be recorded and output (decision 210), and judgment 21
When the result of 0 is YES, the image of the received image information at that time is recorded and output from the plotter 5 (process 211),
A series of receiving operations is completed. When the result of determination 210 is NO, the receiving operation is terminated at that point.

OMR sheet judgment analysis processing (processing 20)
An example of 7) is shown in FIG.

First, the flag FOM for storing that the first page of the stored document at that time is the OMR sheet SS is reset (process 301).

Next, the storage management information of the first page is read from the storage document pointer of the document management information corresponding to the storage document, and the storage image information of the first page is read based on the image pointer of the storage management information. Know the start address. Then, the number of lines corresponding to the leading position ST of the effective reading area is designated as the reading position of the accumulated image information,
The processing line for OMR recognition is set at the mark head position (processing 302).

Then, the value of the counter i for identifying the reading unit area is initialized to 0 (process 303), the data for one line of the processing line is read from the image storage device 9, and the encoding / decoding unit is executed. 8 and the image information for one line is decoded (process 304). The image signal data obtained by decoding is stored in a predetermined OMR processing buffer area set in the system memory 2 in line order.

Then, the value of the counter i is incremented by 1 and the processing line position is advanced by 1 (process 305) to check whether the value of the counter i is equal to the number k of lines in the reading unit area (decision 306). . The result of judgment 306 is NO.
When it becomes, the process returns to the process 304 to execute the decoding process of the next process line. Here, the reading unit area is O
It is equal to the one-step processing unit of the MR recognition unit 7.

When the result of the judgment 306 is YES, the processing of one reading unit area has been completed, so
The image signal data for k lines stored in the MR processing buffer area is transferred to the OMR recognition unit 7, and the OMR recognition unit 7 is caused to execute one-unit processing of OMR recognition (process 307).

At this time, it is checked whether or not the flag FOM is set (judgment 308) and the judgment 30
When the result of No. 8 is NO, the OMR recognition data output from the OMR recognition unit 7 is checked, and the OMR recognition unit 7 is in the state where the start mark MKst of the first reading unit area is detected, and the page is for OMR. It is checked whether or not it is the sheet SS (decision 308).

When the result of judgment 309 is YES, the OMR recognition flag of the document management information at that time is set (process 310), the flag FOM is set (process 311), the process returns to process 303, and the next reading is performed. Perform unit area processing.

When the result of the judgment 309 is NO, it means that the page is not the OMR sheet SS. Therefore, "no OMR sheet" is notified to the upper program (process 312), and this process is terminated. .

Also, the flag FOM is set,
When the result of the determination 308 is YES, the recorded content of the OMR sheet SS is determined based on the OMR recognition data output from the OMR recognition unit 7 at that time (process 313).

Then, it is checked whether or not the processing line position of the OMR recognition processing at that time is the final line position of the effective reading area and the processing for all the data is completed (judgment 314), and the judgment 314 is made. When the result is YES, the OMR sheet S being judged at this time
Notify the record contents of S to the upper program (process 31
5) The process is completed. When the result of the determination 314 is NO, the process returns to the process 303 and the process of the next reading unit area is executed.

In this way, when the OMR sheet SS is detected, the information necessary for automatically executing the operation of relay communication or relay broadcast communication designated at that time is added to the document management information. , Update its contents.

As a result, in the subsequent processing (see FIG.
Then, the transmission operation based on this document management information is executed, and the relay communication (or relay broadcast communication) intended by the user of the relay requesting device is executed. Further, the communication result for each relay destination is stored in the destination management information corresponding to each.

FIG. 9 shows an example of the relay result report return process (process 107).

First, of the relay result reports described above,
The part except the part related to the attached image information, that is, the title,
A display part of each item and a display of the value of each item of "destination" and "result" is created (process 401). Here, it is checked whether or not the confidential mode is set for the document type of the document management information at that time (determination 402),
When the result of determination 402 is YES,
It is checked whether or not the original is set to be added in the confidential mode (decision 403).

When the result of judgment 403 is YES, it is checked whether the OMR recognition flag is set and the OMR sheet SS is added (decision 40).
4). Then, when the result of the determination 404 is YES, the image of the first page (that is, in this case, the OM
A part of the R sheet SS image) is added to the relay result report created in process 401 (process 405), and the content representing one page is added as the value of the item "attached image information" (process 406). .

When the result of judgment 402 is NO, it is checked whether or not the OMR recognition flag is set and the OMR sheet SS is added (decision 4).
07). When the result of this judgment 407 is YES, a part of the image of the page number (for example, the second page) preset in the own terminal is added to the relay result report created in process 401 (process 408). Then, the process proceeds to step 406, and the content indicating the page number at that time is added as the value of the item “attached image information”. When the result of determination 407 is NO, the process proceeds to step 405 and a part of the image on the first page is added to the relay result report.

When the result of judgment 403 is NO and when the result of judgment 404 is NO,
Do not add the image of the transmitted document to the relay result report.

In this way, when the image is added to the relay result report, the contents of the values of the items "transfer page" and "number of sheets" are further added to the relay result report (process 409), and formed at that time. The content of the relay result report is converted into a corresponding image, the image is encoded and compressed to be converted into image information, and temporarily stored in the image storage device 9 (Process 4).
10).

In this way, when the image information of the relay result report is formed and accumulated, the relay request source at that time is called (process 411) and after performing a predetermined pre-transmission procedure with the partner terminal. (Processing 412), a predetermined image information receiving procedure is executed, and the image information of the relay result report accumulated at that time is transmitted (process 413).

When the image information transmission operation is completed,
A predetermined post-transmission procedure is executed with the partner terminal (process 41
4) Then, the line is restored (process 415), and a series of relay result report return processes is ended.

In this way, in this embodiment, the image of the page other than the OMR sheet is added to the relay result report, and the page number of the added page is displayed in the relay result report. The user of the terminal can easily confirm the contents of the image file requested to be relayed.

When the confidential mode is specified at the relay request at the relay request terminal, the OMR is displayed in the relay result report.
Since the image of the work sheet is added or the image is not added, the contents of the communication which the third party does not want to know can be hidden.

By the way, although the present invention is applied to the group 3 facsimile apparatus in the above-described embodiment, the present invention is applied to the group 4 facsimile apparatus connected to the ISDN and the group 3 facsimile function connected to the ISDN. The same can be applied to a facsimile device having a group 4 facsimile function.

The format of the OMR sheet is as follows.
The invention is not limited to the above embodiment.

[0076]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the images of pages other than the OMR sheet are added to the relay result report, the user of the relay request terminal can confirm the contents of the image file for which the relay request has been made.
Further, by adding the page number of the added image, the contents of the image file can be confirmed more accurately. Further, when the confidential mode is specified at the time of the relay request, the image of the OMR sheet is added to the relay result report, or the image is not added. The effect is that the contents can be hidden.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a group 3 facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of document management information and the like.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing a usage example of an OMR sheet.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing an example of an OMR sheet.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a relay result report.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of operation control processing executed by the group 3 facsimile apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of incoming call processing.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of OMR sheet determination analysis processing.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an example of a relay result report return process.

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An image information storage means and an optical mark reading function, and a predetermined relay broadcast communication function based on information obtained by applying the optical mark reading function to a received image of a predetermined page number. In the method of controlling a facsimile apparatus that executes and transmits a relay result report image showing the communication result of the relay broadcast communication to the relay request terminal, an optical mark of the received image file is added to the relay result report image. A method for controlling a facsimile apparatus, comprising adding a part of an image of a page that has not been processed and display information of a page number of the partial image. 2. An image information storage means and an optical mark reading function, and a predetermined relay broadcast communication function based on information obtained by applying the optical mark reading function to a received image of a predetermined page number. In a method of controlling a facsimile apparatus that executes a relay result report image showing the result of the relay broadcast communication and transmits the relay result report image to the relay request terminal, when the confidential mode is specified for the relay broadcast communication,
While adding a part of the image of the predetermined page number of the received image file to the relay result report image, when the confidential mode is not specified for the relay broadcast communication, the relay result report image includes A method of controlling a facsimile apparatus, wherein a part of an image of a page to which an optical mark of a received image file is not added is added.