JPH01309463A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent missing of picture information and to reduce waste of print paper by counting number of white lines of picture information and applying printing/recording while eliminating white lines when the picture information corresponding to the final page is able to be printed on a cut paper sheet of the preceding page if the white lines are eliminated from the picture information. CONSTITUTION:A main control section 210 divides the picture information stored in a picture memory 253 according to the quantity of information recorded on one cut paper sheet so as to discriminate whether or not the quantity of the picture information corresponding to the final page is less than a prescribed quantity. If the quantity of the picture information is less than the prescribed quantity, number of white lines at the upper and lower ends as to the entire picture information stored in the picture memory 253 are counted. Whether or not the picture information of the final page is printed on the cut paper sheet up to the preceding pages is discriminated if the counted white line numbers are eliminated from the entire picture information. If the information is printed on the preceding pages, the said white lines are eliminated and the result is printed out by a recording section 261.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] In particular, with respect to facsimile machines that use cut paper as printing paper, the purpose of this invention is to prevent image information from being lost and to reduce waste of printing paper. A receiving means for receiving the image information, a storage means for storing the image information, a recording means for printing and recording the image information on cut paper, a counting means for counting the number of white lines of the image information, and a storage means for storing the image information on the cut paper. a first determination means for determining whether the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output when divided into image information units to be recorded is smaller than a desired amount;
If the determining means determines that the amount is less than the desired amount, it is determined whether the image information corresponding to the last page will fit on the cut paper of the previous page if the white line is deleted from the image information based on the counting result of the counting means. a second determining means for determining whether or not the page fits within the cut sheet of the previous page; and a control means for controlling to delete the white line and perform print recording if the second determining means determines that the page fits within the cut sheet of the previous page. Configure it so that it can be used.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and particularly to a facsimile machine that uses cut paper as printing paper.

[Conventional technology]

Known facsimile machines are capable of transmitting image information of a document, such as text and photographs, to a long distance using a communication line. At present, such facsimile devices are generally widely used as office automation is becoming more widespread, since image communication can be carried out via public telephone lines.

In the past, most popular facsimile machines used roll paper as printing paper to record received image information, but recently, cut paper has been increasingly used.

By the way, in communication between facsimile machines, before transmitting and receiving image information, the transmitting side and the receiving side communicate the capabilities of their own devices to each other.

At this time, there is an item called limit length as a communication capability that the receiving side conveys to the transmitting side. If a limit length is specified, the sending side divides the page according to the specified limit length and sends the message.

Furthermore, if no limit length is specified, that is, if there is no limit, the image information is transmitted all at once. Generally, if a limit length is specified, the communication time increases by the insertion of inter-page procedures, so in many cases, a limit length is not specified. Therefore, even if the receiving side is a type of device that uses cut paper, the receiving side notifies the sending side of its capability without specifying a length limit, and then sends the received image information in bulk.
The machine was printing and recording the information divided into sections according to the amount of information that could be recorded on the cut paper. - [Problem to be solved by the invention] As mentioned above, in the conventional facsimile machine,
In the case of the receiving side, the capability is notified to the sending side without specifying a limit length, and the image information received at once is divided and printed according to the amount of information that can be recorded on cut paper on the own device. It is becoming common.

By the way, if the amount of remaining information at the end of dividing into the amount of information that can be recorded on cut paper is less than a certain predetermined amount, the remaining information is considered unnecessary information and is unconditionally stored. I had thrown it away.

In other words, in most cases, the information at the end of the image information is blank information or information in a specific format, and there is no problem in deleting it, so processing it this way can save printing paper. I was trying to

However, there are cases where the necessary information is filled up to the end, and in such cases there is a problem that image information is missing.

Furthermore, since there is blank information at the top of the image information, there is a problem in that printing paper is wasted.

The present invention was created in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile device that can prevent image information from being lost and reduce waste of printing paper.

[Means for Solving the Problems] FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of a facsimile apparatus of the present invention.

In the figure, receiving means 111 receives image information.

The storage means 113 stores the image information received by the reception means 111.

Recording means 115 prints and records the image information on cut paper.

The counting means 117 counts the number of white lines in the image information stored in the storage means 113.

The first determination means 121 determines that when the image information stored in the storage means 113 is divided into image information units to be recorded on cut sheets, the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output is smaller than a desired amount. Determine whether or not.

The second determining means 123, in the first determining means 121,
If it is determined that the amount is less than the desired amount, the counting means 11
Based on the counting result in step 7, it is determined whether the image information corresponding to the final page will fit on the cut sheet of the previous page if the white line is deleted from the image information.

The control means 119 controls the recording means 115 to print and record by deleting the white line when the second determination means 123 determines that it fits on the cut sheet of the previous page.

Therefore, if the overall amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output when dividing the image information into image information units recorded on cut paper is less than the desired amount, the white line of the image information If the white line is deleted from the image information, and if the image information corresponding to the last page fits on the cut paper of the previous page, the system is configured so that the current line is deleted and printing is performed. .

[For production]

The receiving means 111 receives the image information, and the storing means 11
Store in 3.

Next, the first determining means 121 determines whether the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output when the image information stored in the storage means 113 is divided into image information units to be recorded on cut paper is a desired amount. Determine whether it is less than the amount.

Furthermore, if the second determining means 123 determines that the amount is less than the desired amount in the first determining means 121, the white line can be deleted from the image information based on the counting result of the counting means 117, and the final page can be displayed. It is determined whether the corresponding image information can fit into the paper of the previous page.

Finally, the control means 119 controls, when the second determination means 123 determines that the previous page fits within the cut sheet.
Control is performed so that the own line is deleted and printing is performed by the recording means 115.

In the present invention, if the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output when image information is divided into image information units recorded on cut paper is less than the desired amount, the image information is By counting the white lines and deleting the white lines from the image information, if the image information corresponding to the last page fits on the cut paper of the previous page, the image information can be saved by deleting the white lines and recording the print. It is possible to reduce the waste of printing paper without missing the paper.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a facsimile machine in one embodiment of the present invention.

(2) The correspondence between the embodiments of the present invention and FIG. 1 will now be shown.

The receiving means 111 corresponds to the main control section 210.

Storage means 113 corresponds to image memory 253.

The recording means 115 corresponds to the recording section 261.

The counting means 117 corresponds to the main control section 210.

The control means 119 corresponds to the main control section 210.

The first determining means 121 corresponds to the main control section 210.・ The second determining means 123 corresponds to the main control section 210.

Examples of the present invention will be described below assuming that the correspondence relationship as described above exists.

□L - New l jig strategy - In Fig. 2, the facsimile device 200 includes a reading unit 211 that reads image information of a transmission document (not shown).
and a recording unit 261 that prints the image information of the received original.
A compression/decompression unit 251 for compressing transmitted data and restoring received data, an image memory 253 consisting of a RAM for storing transmitted and received data, a modem 235 for modulating and demodulating data, and an external line. A network control section 233 that performs control, a line control section 231 that controls the network control section 233 and modem 235 for transmitting and receiving instruction signals and data, and a main control section 210 that performs overall control.
and an operation panel 221 for inputting operator instructions and data.

Main control unit 2101 line control unit 231. Compression/decompression section 25
The 11 image memories 253 are connected by a common lotus.

Instructions and data from the operation panel 221 are sent to the main control unit 210.
is input. The data read by the reading section 211 is input to the compression/decompression section 251. The restored data from the image memory 253 is input to the recording section 261. Also,
The image memory 253 and the compression/decompression section 251 are connected.

The transmission data is sent to the line controller 231. It is output from the network control unit 233 via the modem 235. The received data is received by the network control section 233 and input to the line control section 231 via the modem 235. Line control section 231 and network control section 23
3, and mutually input and output control signals.

The facsimile machine 200 is connected to the facsimile machine N290 via an external public telephone line. Furthermore, the configuration of facsimile device 290 is the same as that of facsimile device 200, and detailed explanation of the configuration will be omitted.

The operation of the millimeter device will be explained.

FIG. 3 shows the operating procedure.

Reference will now be made to FIGS. 2 and 3.

Here, a description will be given assuming that facsimile device 200 receives image information from facsimile device 290.

First, compressed image information data from the facsimile device 290 is received via the network control section 233, demodulated by the modem 235, and sent to the line control section 231 (step 31).
1).

Next, under the control of the main control unit 210, the compression/decompression unit 25
Sent to 1. The compressed data of the image information sent to the compression/restoration unit 251 is restored there, and the processed image information is stored in the image memory 253 (step 31).
2).

The main control unit 210 divides the image information stored in the image memory 253 by the amount of information that can be recorded on one sheet of cut paper used in the recording unit 261, and divides the image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output. It is determined whether the amount is less than a predetermined amount (for example, the information amount of a line corresponding to 2 cm from the top edge of printing paper) (step 3
13).

If the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output is larger than the predetermined amount (negative determination in step 313), the received image information is printed and recorded as is in the recording section 261 (step 317).

If the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output is less than a predetermined amount (affirmative determination in step 313)
counts the number of white lines (blanks) at the top and bottom of the entire image information stored in the image memory 253 (step 314).

Next, if the white lines counted in step 314 are deleted from the entire image information, it is determined whether the image information of the final page fits on the cut sheets up to the previous page (step 315).

If the image information does not fit into the previous page (negative determination in step 315), the received image information is directly stored in the recording unit 26.
1, printing is performed (step 318).

If it fits within the previous page (affirmative determination in step 315), the counted white lines at the top and bottom edges are deleted and printed and recorded in the recording unit 261 (step 31
6).

N-Certain 1 friend↓person In this way, the image information received from the facsimile device 290 is decompressed by the compression/decompression unit 251 and stored in the image memory 253.

Next, when the image information stored in the image memory 253 is divided into image information units to be recorded on cut sheets, if the amount of image information corresponding to the final page is less than a predetermined amount,
The main control unit 210 counts the white lines at the top and bottom of the image information. Further, if the white line is deleted from the image information at that time, and the remaining image information fits on the cut paper of the previous page, the white line is deleted and printing is recorded in the recording section 261.

Therefore, it is possible to prevent image information from being lost and to reduce waste of printing paper.

In the embodiment described above, the software counting method by the main controller is adopted as the counting method of the counting means, but the counting operation is performed by a dedicated hardware circuit. You may let them.

In addition, in ``correspondence between Examples and Figure 1'',
Although the correspondence between the present invention and the embodiments has been described, those skilled in the art will easily assume that the present invention is not limited to this and that there are various modifications.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, if the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output when image information is divided into image information units recorded on cut paper is smaller than the desired amount, , if the white line in the image information is counted and the white line is deleted from the image information, if the image information corresponding to the last page fits on the cut paper of the previous page, the white line can be deleted and printed. This is extremely useful in practice, since image information is not lost and waste of printing paper can be reduced.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the principle of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an operating procedure. In the figure, 111 is a receiving means, 113 is a storage means, 115 is a recording means, 117 is a counting means, 119 is a control means, 121 is a first judgment means, 123 is a second judgment means, 200, 290 is a facsimile machine, 210 211 is a reading unit, 221 is an operation panel, 231 is a line control unit, 233 is a network control unit, 235 is a modem, 251 is a compression/decompression unit, 253 is an image memory, and 261 is a recording unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) Receiving means (111) for receiving image information, storage means (113) for storing the image information received by the receiving means (111), and printing and recording the image information on cut paper. recording means (115); counting means (117) for counting the number of white lines of the image information stored in the storage means (113); a first determining means (121) for determining whether the amount of image information corresponding to the final page to be recorded and output when divided into image information units to be recorded on the cut sheet is smaller than a desired amount; If the first determining means (121) determines that the amount is less than the desired amount, the white line is deleted from the image information based on the counting result of the counting means (117), and the image information corresponding to the last page is deleted. If the second determining means (123) determines whether or not the image fits within the cut paper of the previous page, the white line is drawn. A facsimile apparatus comprising: control means (119) for controlling the recording means (115) to perform print recording after deletion.