JPH01254067A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make the entire equipment inexpensive and to prevent picture quality of a routine form from being deteriorated by providing a memory with transmission form stored therein and a synthesizing means synthesizing a prescribed item to the prescribed position of the form. CONSTITUTION:A picture read scanner 31, a memory 32 storing a picture data, a ROM 33 with the data of routine form written therein in advance, a console panel 34, a printer 35 printing out a picture data, a CCU(communication control unit) 36, a bus 37, a built-in clock 38 and a CPU 30 controlling the entire system are provided on the equipment. Moreover, the CPU 30 and the ROM 33 are examples of the synthesizing means synthesizing a prescribed item onto the prescribed position of a transmission form. Thus, in a facsimile equipment storing the routine form used to send a transmission original into the memory, the entire equipment is made inexpensively and the picture quality of form is not deteriorated.

Description

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

[Prior Art] When sending a transmission document to a recipient, the first page of the transmission document is usually
I am trying to send a format (fixed form) for sending on each page.

In this case, since it is cumbersome for the user to create a reply format each time, it is known that the format is created once and then stored in the memory of the facsimile machine.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the above conventional example, in order to retain the format even when the power is turned off after storing the fixed format created by the user in memory, a hard disk and a RAM with battery backup are required. There is a problem in that the entire device becomes expensive. Furthermore, when a reading device of a facsimile machine reads a fixed form created by a user, there is a problem in that the image quality deteriorates when it is sent.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile machine that stores in its memory a fixed format used when transmitting a transmission document, which is inexpensive and does not deteriorate the image quality of the format.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention includes a memory storing a transmission format, a compositing means for composing predetermined items at a predetermined position of the format, a printer for printing the composite format, and the above-mentioned and sending means for sending the combined format to the line.

[Operation] The present invention comprises a memory storing a format for transmission, a compositing means for composing predetermined items at a predetermined position of the format, a printer for printing the composite format, and a printer for printing the composite format. Since the facsimile device has a sending means for sending data to a line, the entire device is inexpensive and the image quality of the form does not deteriorate in a facsimile device that stores a fixed format used when transmitting a transmission document in a memory.

[Example] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the format of a cover sheet to be attached when sending a transmission document in the present invention.

In this format example, there is a frame 1 for writing the name of the recipient, a partition and title column 2 for writing the name of the invention, a frame 3 for writing the number of manuscripts to be sent to the recipient, and a frame 3 for writing the number of manuscripts to be sent to the recipient, and the date and time of sending to the recipient. Box 4 for writing the time and box 5 for writing the sender's name or abbreviation.
and a box 6 in which the sender's name or facsimile telephone number is entered.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a paper format for instructing when polling is desired in the present invention.

In this figure, there is a frame 11 for writing the name of the recipient, a partition and honorific title column 2 for writing the name of the invention, a frame 14 for writing the date and time of sending to the recipient, and the name or abbreviation of the sender. It has a frame 15, a frame 16 for writing in the telephone number of the sending facsimile machine, and a frame 17 for writing in the deadline of the specified polling time.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, an image reading scanner 31, a memory 32 for storing image data, a ROM 32 in which fixed format data is written in advance, an operation panel 34, a printer 35 for printing image data, and a CCU (communication It has a control unit) 36, a bus 37, a built-in clock 38, and a CPU 30 that controls the entirety of the above embodiment.

The ROM 33 stores programs of flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 and 5. Also.

The CPU 30 and the ROM 33 are examples of composing means that composes predetermined items at predetermined positions in the transmission format.

Next, the operation of the above embodiment will be explained.

FIG. 4 shows how the standard format is printed on the printer 3 in the above embodiment.
5 is a flowchart showing the operation when outputting to the PC.

First, an operator presses a format export button (not shown) provided on the operation panel 34 (31), the CPU
30 detects that the button is pressed, and ROM3
3 (S2), that is, image data as shown in FIG. 1 or 2 is read out from the ROM 33.
The data in the fixed format is read out from the RAM 32 (S3), and the frame shown in Figure 1 or Figure 2 in the image developed at this time does not contain numbers, letters, etc. .

Then, the CPU 30 reads data related to the date and time from the built-in clock 38, and sends this read data to the RA.
A predetermined position (frame 4) of the image data developed on M32
．． 14), in the same manner as above, the telephone number of the user's own facsimile machine, which has already been registered, is placed in the predetermined position (frame 6.16) of the image data developed on the RAM 32. The image is synthesized (S5), and then outputted by the printer 35 (S6).

In this way, by looking at the printed paper, it can be confirmed that the date, time, telephone number of the own facsimile machine, etc. are correctly combined.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of transmitting a combination of predetermined items in a predetermined frame of the fixed format to the other party in the above embodiment.

First, when the operator presses the standard format transmission button on the operation panel 34 and the CPU 30 detects it (S11)
, read the data in the standard format from the ROM 33, and read the data in the fixed format from the ROM 33.
An image as shown in Fig. 2 is developed in the RAM 32 (S1
2.513), in this case, the destination, date and time, sender's name, phone number of the sending facsimile machine, number of facsimile documents to be sent, and polling deadline are still entered in the expanded image data. It has not been done.

Then, the CPU 30 reads data related to the date and time of the day from the built-in clock 38, develops this read data into image data, and synthesizes it in the frame 4.14 (S14
).

Similarly, the phone number of the facsimile device registered by the user and the registered abbreviation of the user are expanded into image data and synthesized into the frame 6.16 (S15).Furthermore, the phone number and address of the other party are added to the frame 6.16. Expand to image data, frame l, 1
1 (S16). Note that the telephone number and address of each party are registered in advance. Then, the number of facsimile manuscripts to be transmitted is developed and synthesized into the image data (S17), and the fixed format is transmitted together with other transmission manuscripts (S18).

Note that the above explanation is for the case where polling is not performed, but if the operator wants to write the deadline for the time when polling is desired, in step S17 above, the operator inputs the deadline for that time via the operation panel, and Compose the input deadline into a fixed format.

In the above embodiment, the CPU 30 counts the number of originals being transmitted. Instead of inputting the desired polling time by the sender via the operation panel, the deadline for polling may be set to the time of sending plus a pre-registered time.

In the above embodiment, the date and time data, the telephone number of the own facsimile machine, and the abbreviation of the sender are combined into the fixed format data, but the combination of these may be omitted. Furthermore, when writing data to the RAM 33, optimal compression such as MH or MMR may be performed, thereby reducing the required memory capacity.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, in a facsimile device that stores in its memory a fixed format used when transmitting a transmission document,
This has the advantage that the entire device is inexpensive and the image quality of the fixed format does not deteriorate.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a fixed format registered in advance in the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a pre-registered polling format in the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation when printing a standard format in the above embodiment. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation in the case of fixed format transmission in the above embodiment. 30...CPU, 31...Scanner. 32...RAM, 33...ROM, 38...Built-in clock. Patent applicant Canon Co., Ltd. Agent Arata Yokubo - Figure 1, Section 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A memory storing a format for transmission; Composition means for composing predetermined items at a predetermined position of the format; A printer for printing the composite format; A printer for printing the composite format; A facsimile device comprising: a sending means for sending a message to a facsimile machine;