JPH01252065A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To effectively prevent the loss of a reception data by storing a received text in the shortage of recording paper at an incoming call and sending the text stored in a facsimile equipment registered in advance after the end of reception. CONSTITUTION:A telephone number of deputy reception at picture reception is inputted from a man-machine interface section 2 and registered in the RAM of a control section 1. When no recording paper exists at the incoming call, the picture data from the line 8 is stored in a text storage device 5. After the end of reception, the text stored in the text storage device 5 is sent to the facsimile equipment applying deputy reception registered in advance. Then the number, etc., of the facsimile equipment applying deputy reception is displayed on the display section of the man-machine interface section 2. Thus, the loss of reception data is prevented effectively.

Description

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

[Prior Art] Facsimile machines equipped with a message storage unit have been known for some time.

In this facsimile machine, if the recording paper runs out when data is received, the received image data is temporarily stored in the message storage device, and this stored data is output after the recording paper is replenished.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in conventional facsimile machines having such a message storage function, until recording paper is replenished,
Since the received image data is unconditionally transferred to the message storage device one after another, when the capacity of the message storage device is full, even if a call is received, there is no place to store this data, and the data cannot be received. The problem was that it could not be done.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile device that can reliably receive received image data even when the received image data exceeds the capacity of a message storage device because recording paper is not replenished for a long time. be.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a facsimile machine having a storage device for storing received telegrams, which stores the received telegrams in the storage device when there is no recording paper at the time of incoming call.

After the reception is completed, the message stored in the Na device is transmitted to a pre-registered facsimile device.

[Operation] Since the present invention transmits the message stored in the message storage device to a facsimile device registered in advance,
Even when there is no recording paper and a large amount of image data arrives, it can be reliably received by another facsimile machine.

[Example] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

This facsimile device includes a control section 1, a man-machine interface section 2, a reading section 3, a recording section 4, a message storage section 5,
It is configured to include an ADL section 61 and a communication section 7. Further, a line 8 is connected to the communication section 7.

The control unit 1 is composed of a microprocessor, memory elements such as ROM, RAM, etc., and controls the entire facsimile machine. Particularly in this embodiment, when there is no recording paper, the received image data is transmitted to another facsimile machine.

The man-machine interface section 2 determines the operation of the control section 1 by inputting instructions from a human, or communicates the operation of the control section 1 to a person.

The reading unit 3 is configured with an image sensor using COD or the like, and reads the transmitted original.

The recording unit 4 is composed of a thermal printer or the like, and records the image data read from the reading unit 3 on an output paper, and records the image data from the message storage unit 5 composed of a RAM, an external storage device, etc. on an output paper. shall be recorded.

The ADL unit 6 makes a call to a telephone number based on information from the control unit 1.

The communication section 7 is composed of a modem, an NCU (network control unit), etc., and transmits the image data of the document read by the reading section 3 to another facsimile device, or sends the image data received from the line 8 to the recording section 4. etc.

The message storage device 5 is composed of a RAM, an external storage device, etc., and temporarily stores the image data read by the reading section 3 and the image data received from the line 8.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of this facsimile machine.

First, at the start of the image reception procedure, parameters used in the following processing are initialized (s B , where m indicates the total number of registered facsimile machines to perform proxy reception, and n
represents the order of these registered facsimile devices.

The telephone number of this proxy facsimile machine (facsimile machine that performs proxy reception) is input from the man-machine interface section 2 and stored in the RAM of the control section 1.

Next, after initializing the parameters, the presence or absence of recording paper is checked (S2). If there is recording paper, the image data from the line 8 is outputted to the recording paper by the recording section 4 (S15).
After the reception is completed, the state returns to the incoming call waiting state (S2).If there is no recording paper, the image data from line 8 is sent to the telegram M.
Checks whether storage is possible in storage device 5 (S
3) If it is determined that the image data cannot be stored in the message storage device 5 because there is a large amount of image data, the operation is terminated as an error even if one image data is being received (S L 4).

Further, if the image data from the line 8 can be stored in the message storage device 5, the process moves to a message storage operation (S4), and
Checks whether the reception operation is completed (S5
), the operations from S3 to S4 are returned green until the receiving operation is completed.

When the reception of the image data is completed, it is checked whether the facsimile machine is currently in a mode for performing proxy reception (S6). This mode selection is made in advance by operation from the man-machine interface section 2. If you have not selected a mode that allows another device to perform proxy reception, the received image data will not be sent to the other device, and even if you have selected a mode that allows another device to perform proxy reception, it will not send the received image data to the other device. Comparison of value and m value (
If the n value exceeds the m value in step S7), this means that you are trying to send to another facsimile machine that is not registered as a facsimile machine for proxy reception, so do not send the image data to the other machine, or , compare the n value and m value (S7
), if the n value is less than or equal to the m value, a call is made to the telephone number of the nth proxy facsimile machine (S8).

Then, it is checked whether the nth facsimile machine is busy (S9). That is, if this n-th facsimile machine is in use or there is no recording paper, it is busy and cannot perform proxy reception. Therefore, in order to make a call to another registered telephone number, 1 is added to n (S12), and a check is made to see if the next telephone number is registered (S7).
In this way, the above operations are repeated until the facsimile machine is connected to a facsimile machine capable of proxy reception or until it is determined that all facsimile machines are busy.

When the line is connected to the nth facsimile machine, the image data stored in the message storage device 5 described above is loaded and the image data is transmitted to the nth facsimile machine through MA8 (S10).

Then, the number of the facsimile machine that has performed this substitute reception is displayed on the display section of the man-fist machine interface section 2 to inform the operator (S l 1).

Note that the number of the proxy facsimile machine may be stored in the -time RAM and output by the recording section 4 after the recording paper is replenished.

In addition, in the embodiment described above, the order in which calls are made to the phone number to allow another device to perform proxy reception is to call the first registered phone number each time a reception is received, and if the phone number is busy, the second phone number is called. The phone numbers were selected sequentially so as to make a call, but you can select random numbers or make the first phone number the next phone number after the phone number that intercepted the last time you received the call. Good too.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, since the message stored in the message storage device is transmitted to the facsimile device registered in advance, when a lot of image data is received when there is no recording paper, Even in this case, the received data can be reliably received by another facsimile machine, and loss of received data in such a case can be effectively prevented.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the above embodiment. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Control part, 2... Man-machine interface part, 3... Reading part, 4... Recording part, 5... Telegram storage part, 6... ADL part, 7. ...Communication Department, 8...Line. Patent applicant Canon Co., Ltd. Agent Arata Yokubo −

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim] In a facsimile machine having a storage device for storing received messages, when there is no recording paper at the time of receiving a call, the received messages are stored in the storage device, and after the reception is completed, the facsimile device registered in advance A facsimile device characterized in that it transmits a message stored in the storage device.