JPH01135179A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To discriminate easily and surely an error page unable to be sent by recording the result of transmission and part of a picture of each page to each page of an original in each processing as a report representing the result of transmission. CONSTITUTION:If any error page not sent exists in the transmission of an original of plural pages, since part of the picture of each page sent correctly is recorded as the transmission management report, the error page unable to be sent is easily discriminated by collating the content of original and the recorded picture. In case of the transmission of different originals especially to the same destination for the plural number of times of transmission, there is a possibility to mis-discriminate the error page in a conventional equipment because of the mistaken correspondence between the items on the report and the original, but the content of original and the picture recording are collated in this way so as to discriminate surely without mistake of the error page.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Technical field] The present invention relates to a facsimile device.

[Prior art] While transmitting a document using a facsimile machine, some pages may not be transmitted, such as when a transmission error occurs due to abnormal line conditions, or when two pages of the document are fed overlapping each other. be.

For this reason, with conventional facsimile machines, after sending
As a transmission result report or an error report, the presence or absence of an error, the number of sheets sent, the date and time of communication, the destination, etc., are recorded and output on recording paper, so that the transmission results can be checked.

In such a report, for example, if only some pages among a plurality of pages have an error, the number of pages of the document that failed to be transmitted due to an error is recorded and displayed.

In this case, since the error page that could not be transmitted must be retransmitted, the operator must determine which page of the document is the error page based on the displayed content.

However, in order to determine this error page, conventionally, only the number of pages in error is displayed, so it is necessary to count each page of the manuscript, which is a tedious task.

Additionally, if you send multiple messages to the same destination, an error will be displayed in the report above each time, but in this case, it is possible to misidentify the error page by mismatching the transmission processing items on the report with the original. was there.

[Objective] In view of the above-mentioned points, an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile device that can easily and reliably determine which page could not be transmitted among a plurality of pages of a transmitted document. shall be.

[Configuration] For this purpose, the present invention includes, in the report indicating the communication results, at least the transmission results indicating whether the transmission was successful or unsuccessful for each page of the transmitted document, and a part of the image for each page. It is characterized by being able to record information.

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

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a scanner 1 reads an original image and extracts image information, and a plotter 2 records the image information on recording paper.

The encoding and decoding unit 3 encodes image information to be transmitted and decodes received image information.

The image reduction unit 4 creates image information by reducing a part of the image of each page of the transmission document. The image memory 5 is
The reduced image information is temporarily stored.

The network control device 6 performs predetermined call origination and incoming call operations by acquiring a line, sending out a selection signal which is an originating optical telephone number, and detecting an incoming call.

The modem 7 modulates and demodulates image information and transmits the same, and also transmits various procedure signals in transmission control procedures.

The communication control section 8 controls the network control device 6 and the modem 7 to execute facsimile transmission according to a predetermined transmission control procedure.

The operation display section 9 displays operation guidance, etc., and, in accordance with the guidance, performs various operations for causing the facsimile apparatus to perform predetermined transmission/reception processing.

The system memory 10 stores the date and time for each transmission process.

It stores information such as the destination of the transmission, the number of originals to be sent, and the results of the transmission, as well as various fixed information such as item information of the transmission result report. The system control section 11 is composed of a microcomputer system, and controls each section mentioned above to execute predetermined operations of the facsimile machine.

The real-time clock 12 indicates date and time.

The facsimile apparatus of this embodiment has the above-described configuration, and when transmitting a document, as shown in FIG. (Process 22).

As a result, under the control of the system control unit 11, the network control device 6 first connects to the line and performs a calling operation, and the destination facsimile device is called (process 23). When the other party responds, the modem 7 and communication control unit 8 start a predetermined transmission control procedure.

When a response from the other party is received, the date and time at that time are read from the real-time clock 12, and the date and time and the telephone number of the other party set on the operation display section 9 are stored in the system memory 10. It is stored as communication information (processing 24).

Next, one page of the transmission document is sequentially read by the scanner 1 (process 25). Among the obtained image information, the image information of the first part of the image of the page is transferred to the image reduction unit 4, where it is converted into image information obtained by reducing the image at a certain reduction rate, and the image information is converted into image information. It is stored in the memory 5 (process 26).

Further, in parallel with this, all of the image information obtained above is decoded by the encoding/decoding section 3 and sequentially transmitted from the communication control section 8 (process 27).

During this transmission process, the number of pages of the transmitted document is counted (process 28). In addition, in the above transmission control procedure,
For each page, the transmission result is determined to determine whether the transmitted image information has been successfully received by the destination. The transmission result for each page is stored as one piece of communication information in the system memo January O (process 29).

When the reading and transmission of one page of the original is completed, the next page is processed in the same way (from N in process 30 to process 25).

When the above process for the last page of the original is completed (Y in process 30), the counted number of originals is stored as one of the communication information in the system memory 10 (process 31), and after a predetermined transmission control procedure, the line is disconnected. The connection is disconnected and the transmission process ends.

One transmission process is executed as described above, and for each transmission process, communication information such as the date and time at the time of transmission, the recipient's telephone number, and the transmission result are stored in the system memory 1°. Image information for a part of the page is stored in the image memory 5.

The operator issues an instruction to output a transmission management report from the operation display unit 9 at an appropriate time after each document transmission process or after several transmission processes are completed in order to confirm the transmission results.

Now, suppose that an instruction to output the transmission management report 1 is given after several transmission processes have been completed, as shown in FIG. Certain item information is read (process 41).

Since these character data are code information, after being converted into dot data, the plotter 2 records them line by line on recording paper.

By the way, FIG. 4 shows the recording format of the management report 61, in which an item area 61a is provided at the top of the top, an information area 61b is provided in the lower left half, and an image area 61c is provided in the right half. It is being

Through the above recording process, the plotter 2 starts recording the transmission management report 61, and as shown in FIG. 5, the name of the report is displayed in the item area 61a.

Each item of communication information is recorded (processing 42).

Next, a variable i is set to 1 (process 43), and communication information for the first transmission process is read from the system memory 10 (process 44).

Next, a variable j.1 is set (process 45), and the transmission result of page j of the communication information is identified (process 46).

Here, if the transmission of page j is successful (processing 46
(Y), the image information of the corresponding page stored in the image memory 5 is read out (process 47). Also, page j
If the transmission is unsuccessful (N in process 46), the image information is not read out.

Next, by comparing the variable J with the number of manuscripts in the communication information, it is determined whether there is a next page (process 48). Here, if there is a next page (N in process 48), the variable j:j÷1 is calculated (process 49), and the next page is similarly processed (proceed to process 46).

When the above processing for all pages is completed (Y in process 48), the communication information indicated by the character code is converted to dot data, and the data and the image information are combined in a predetermined arrangement and combined. The plotter 2 outputs the information to 1
It is recorded line by line (process 50).

As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the information area 61b displays the execution date and time (a
L The phone number of the other party (b in the same figure) and the number of originals (c in the same figure) are 1.
It is recorded in rows, and whether the transmission result (d in the figure) is successful (OK) or unsuccessful (NG) is recorded for each page.

Further, in the image area 61c, a partially reduced image of each page is recorded only if the transmission result for each page is successful (processing 50).

Next, it is determined whether the next communication information is stored in the system memory 10 (process 51). Here, if there is next communication information (N in process 51), the variable i is incremented by i+1 (process 52), and the process returns to process 44 above. As a result, the same processing as described above is performed, and the communication information and images (e and f in the figure) regarding each transmission process are recorded in the transmission management report 61.

As described above, in this embodiment, the transmission management report includes:
The transmission result is recorded for each page of the document in each transmission process, and if the transmission result is successful, a part of the image of that page is recorded.

By the way, if a plurality of pages of a manuscript are sent and there is an error page among them that could not be sent, the operator must identify the error page and resend it.

In this embodiment, the transmission management report records some images of each correctly transmitted page as described above. error pages can be easily identified.

In particular, when sending different manuscripts to the same recipient multiple times, there was a risk in the past that the correspondence between the items on the report and the manuscript could be mistaken and the error page could be misidentified. By comparing the original content and the image with the record, it becomes possible to reliably identify error pages without making any mistakes.

Furthermore, since images of error pages that could not be transmitted are not recorded, error pages can also be indicated by the presence or absence of blank areas in the image area of the transmission management report, making it easier to identify them.

In the above embodiment, the communication information indicating the transmission results and other information is recorded and output as a management report at any time after the transmission process is completed, according to the operator's operation instructions. It may also be configured to automatically record and output when executed. Also, instead of combining multiple processes, communication information with the same content is output as a transmission result report each time one transmission process is completed, or an error report is output only when an error occurs. You can.

In addition, the management report records only images of pages that were successfully sent, but it is also possible to record images of error pages if image information of sent documents is stored in memory in advance. It is.

Furthermore, it goes without saying that the image of each page does not necessarily have to be reduced in size, and that the entire page rather than a part of it may be recorded.

[Effects] As described above, according to the present invention, the report indicating the transmission results records the transmission results and a part of the image of each page for each page of the document in each process. By comparing the recorded image with the contents of the original, it becomes possible to easily and reliably identify the error page that could not be sent among the multiple pages of the original to be sent.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an operation flowchart showing transmission processing, FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart showing transmission management report output processing, and FIG. 4 is transmission FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a recording format of a management report. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a recording example of a transmission management report.

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) In a facsimile machine that is equipped with the function of recording the transmission result on recording paper after transmitting the original and outputting it as a transmission result report, the transmission result report includes at least the transmission result for each page of the transmission manuscript. A facsimile apparatus comprising a recording means for recording a transmission result indicating success or failure and a part of the image for each page. (2) The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the part of the image is recorded only corresponding to a successfully transmitted page.