JPH01311764A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the communicating time required for transmission of an inter-page procedure signal by transmitting a plural-leaf original as a simple leaf original with adding a page separating line when a receiving side has no cutter. CONSTITUTION:A reading circuit 1 outputs a picture signal 1a of a read original and a page end signal 1b to indicate the termination of a page, and a page separation picture signal generating circuit 2 generates a separating picture signal 2a to print out the separation of the page by the page end signal 1b. A cutter existence identifying circuit 3 identifies the existence of the cutter function of a receiving side during a transmitting control procedure, when it is identified that the cutter function does not exist, the transmission of an inter- page procedure signal 4a is stopped by the page end signal 1b, and an inter-page procedure signal generating circuit 4 outputs a switching signal 4b. A switching circuit 5 switches from the picture signal 1a of an output to the separating picture signal 2a to output through switches 5b 5c by the switching signal 4b through switches 5a 5c. Thus, when the receiving side does not have the cutter function, a compound leaf original is transmitted as a simple leaf original with a page separating line added to its inter-page.

Description

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

[Conventional technology]

With conventional facsimile machines, even if the recipient's receiving side does not have an automatic cutter, the inter-page procedure signal (M in G3) is
PS) was being sent. At this time, when the receiving side receives the inter-page procedure signal, some printers add and print dotted lines for cutting each leaf to make it easier to organize the received images later.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-described conventional facsimile apparatus has the disadvantage that the communication time becomes longer because a procedure signal is transmitted between the pages of the document even to the other party (receiving side) that does not have a cutter function.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes a reading circuit that outputs an image signal of the read original and a page end signal indicating the end of the page;
a page break signal generation circuit that generates a break signal for printing a page break in response to the page end signal; a cutter presence/absence identification circuit that identifies the presence or absence of a cutter function on the receiving side during a transmission control procedure; and a cutter presence/absence identification circuit. an inter-page procedure signal generating circuit that stops sending out an inter-page procedure signal and outputs a switching signal when the circuit determines that the cutter function is not present, and outputs an inter-page procedure signal according to the switching signal; and a switching circuit for switching from the page division image signal to the page separation image signal.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

The reading circuit 1 outputs the image signal of the read document]-a and the page end signal 11 indicating the end of the page, and the reading circuit 1 outputs the page end signal 11) which indicates the end of the page. A page separation signal generation circuit 2, a cutter presence/absence identification circuit 3 that identifies the presence or absence of a cutter function on the receiving side during a transmission control procedure, and this cutter presence/absence identification circuit 3.
Page end signal 11 when the cutter function is not identified.
), the inter-page procedure signal generation circuit 4 stops sending out the inter-page procedure signal 4a and outputs the switching signal 41], and the switching signal 41 outputs the image signal 1a through the switches 5a→5c from the output image signal 1a through the switches 5b→5c. a switching circuit 5 that switches to the divided picture signal 2a, a C0DEC6 that encodes the output from this switching circuit 5, and this C0DEC6 that encodes the output from this switching circuit 5;
It has a MODEM 7 that modulates the output from the EC 6 and transmits it to a line 9 via a network control unit (NCU) 8.

In this way, if the receiving side does not have a cutter function, page separation lines are added between the pages of the multi-page document and the document is sent as a single-page document. Furthermore, when the cutter function is provided, the inter-page procedure signal generation circuit 4 generates an inter-page procedure signal 4a as in the conventional device every time the page end signal 1b is input.
can be output.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, when the receiving side does not have a cutter, by adding a page separation line to a multi-page document and transmitting it as a single-page document, the communication time can be shortened by the time required to send the inter-page procedure signal. effective.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Reading circuit, 2...Page separation picture signal generation circuit, 3...Cutter presence/absence identification circuit, 4...Inter-page procedure signal generation circuit, 5...Switching circuit, 6...C0DEC
17...MODEM, 8...Network control unit (NCU),
9--Line.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a reading circuit that outputs an image signal of a read original and a page end signal indicating the end of a page; a page break signal generation circuit that generates a break signal for printing a page break based on the page end signal; and a transmission circuit. A cutter presence/absence identification circuit that identifies the presence or absence of a cutter function on the receiving side during a control procedure, and when this cutter presence/absence identification circuit identifies that there is no cutter function, stops sending the inter-page procedure signal in response to the page end signal. A facsimile apparatus comprising: an inter-page procedure signal generation circuit that outputs a switching signal; and a switching circuit that switches output from the image signal to the page separation image signal in response to the switching signal.