JPH02228870A - Facsimile communication control equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need for an operation which executes facsimile transmission after the preparation of a printed document and the printed document by providing a code conversion part to convert the document code of printer specification to the picture code of facsimile specification. CONSTITUTION:A document code preparation part 14 prepares a print setting condition received through a printer interface part 11, and the printed document code from print information and the inputting document code is converted to the picture code at every scanning line which is formed by the original picture pickup of a facsimile equipment, and outputting with a picture code conversion part 15. A picture coding part 17 forms the picture code to be a compressed code and a facsimile communication part 19 executes the facsimile transmission of the code to a communication channel. Thus, the operation to execute the facsimile transmission of printed and outputted paper, which passes through the printing and outputting with a printer, as original paper by using a facsimile equipment and the sheet can be eliminated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile communication control device used to record printed documents output by a printer by facsimile.

[Conventional technology]

In a conventional facsimile recording method for printed documents, a printed document outputted from a printer is placed in a facsimile device as a transmission document sheet, and recorded on recording paper.

This will be explained with reference to FIG. Referring to FIG. 4, computer system 20 includes processing unit 212 display unit 22 . Storage device 23. Electric keyboard 24 and printer 2
5, the processing device 21 receives the electronic key operation information of the electronic key board 24 operated while looking at the display device 22 that displays information according to the processing progress, and makes full use of the program and data stored in the storage device 23. Create document data.

The printer 25 receives a print command together with control information including a document format from the processing device 21, prepares for printing, and then sends out a print document printed on paper based on the received print information.

The facsimile machine 30 has a transmitting side 31 that captures an image of a screen from a document sheet, encodes it, and sends it out, and a receiving side 32 that decodes the received screen code, records it on a recording sheet, and outputs it. The transmitting side 31 and the receiving side 32 are connected by a normal transmission line, and the original paper screen is transmitted to a remote location, copied, and output as recording paper.

Therefore, a document created by the computer system is first printed out by a printer, and the printed document is transferred to a remote location by a facsimile machine.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

As mentioned above, the conventional facsimile recording method for printed documents is structured so that a document recorded by a computer system is first printed out using a printer, and then the outputted printed document is transmitted as a manuscript paper to a remote location using a facsimile device. Therefore, when documents stored in a computer system are transmitted by facsimile to a remote location and recorded,
After creating a printed document using a printer, it must be transmitted by facsimile, which poses a problem in that the time and effort involved and the printed document are uneconomical.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile communication control device that solves the above problems by directly connecting the output from a computer system to a printer to the facsimile communication control device.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile communication control device according to the present invention has a printer interface section, a document code creation section, an image code conversion section, and a facsimile communication section.

The printer interface unit has connection conditions for connecting a printer serving as a computer terminal to a computer system, and therefore includes an information input/output connection function of the printer. The document code creation unit creates a print document code from print setting conditions and print information received via the printer interface unit. The image code conversion section converts the printed document code of the document code creation section into an image code under the same conditions as the image code obtained by imaging, and outputs the converted image code. The facsimile communication unit transmits the image code to the communication line.

[Effect]

According to the above means, the facsimile communication control device of the present invention is coupled with a computer system, and when the computer system issues a command to create a printed document, the document content is transmitted from the computer system to the facsimile communication control device, and the facsimile communication control device of the present invention is transmitted to a remote location. It is recorded and output from the facsimile machine.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile communication control device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flow diagram showing an example of the main operation procedure according to FIG.

In FIG. 1, a facsimile communication control device 10 includes a printer interface section 11. Print command decoder 12. Received information storage section 131 document code creation section 141 image code conversion section 151 image encoding section 17, automatic dial transmission section 18. and a facsimile communication section 19.

The printer interface unit 11 connects a connection path from the computer to the printer in the same way as a printer, and exchanges information with the computer. The print command decoding unit 12 receives information from the computer via the printer interface unit 11, decodes the print command, and stores the received information in the received information storage unit 13. The print command includes print settings, and specifies the character spacing and line spacing of the printer, the number of lines per page, and paper dimensions for margins other than character positions.

Further, conditions such as double-width, half-width, bold, and equal placement are applied when forming character codes at character positions and outputting them. The document code creation unit 14 specifies the character position and creates a print document code at the coordinate position of the print document according to the print setting conditions. The image code conversion unit 15 converts the print document into an image code for each point coordinate as a screen. This image code is an image code obtained by a conventional facsimile machine photographing a transmission document using a document screen imaging unit and converting an optical signal into an electrical signal. When transmitting image codes via a communication line, the image encoding unit 17 reduces the number of image codes to be transmitted, compresses the bandwidth, improves the usage efficiency of the transmission path, and outputs image information.

The automatic dial transmitting unit 18 drives the facsimile communication unit 19 using the connection destination information dialed by the caller of the facsimile communication control device 100 or the connection destination information input from a device such as a computer, and starts the communication line. Automatically dials connection destination information and sets up a communication path to the connection destination. The facsimile communication unit 19 activates the communication line by driving from the automatic dialing unit 18 and makes a call, and when a communication path to each connection destination is set due to an incoming call, the communication encoding unit 1
7, the compressed and encoded image information is sent to the communication channel.

Next, the main operating procedure of the facsimile communication control apparatus according to the present invention will be explained with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 1.

First, the print command decoder 12 receives the print command together with the print format via the printer interface section 11, stores it in the received information storage section 13 (step 101), and drives the document code creation section 14 to generate the print format information. Then, the computer is notified that the preparation for receiving the print information is completed (step 102). Next, the print information received from the computer is stored in the received information storage section 13 via the print command decoding section 12 (step 103), and sent to the document code creation section 14. The document code creation unit 14 receives the print information and creates a print document (
Step 104) and output. The image code conversion unit 15 converts the input printed document into an image code for each scanning line formed by capturing an image of the document screen by a facsimile device (step 105).
and output it. Image encoding 17 converts the received image code into
For example, compression encoding (step 106) is performed, such as adding a shortened code to continuous white. Facsimile communication department 19
When the image code arrives, it is confirmed that the communication path with the connection destination has been established (step 107), and the image code is extracted from the image encoding unit 17 and sent by facsimile to the communication line (step 108).

Next, the connection relationship between the computer system and the facsimile communication control device will be explained with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 is a connection diagram showing an example in which the facsimile communication control device of FIG. 1 is connected to a computer system. In FIG. 3, the same components are given the same reference numerals as those shown in FIG. 4, which has been referred to and described in the prior art, and in FIG. 1, according to the present invention, so detailed description thereof will be omitted. The processing device 21 of the computer system 20 connects the connection path to the printer 25 directly to the printer interface section 11 of the facsimile device 10, and exchanges information under the same connection conditions as the printer 25. Therefore, there is no change in the computer system to the facsimile communication control device which has a printer interface unit having the same specifications as the printer to be connected.

In the above embodiment, the input system to the facsimile communication control device is a computer system, and the printing document is explained using a word processor, but the same applies to graphic printing, and if the system is to drive a printer,
The present invention is not limited to the above description.

In addition, the computer, which is connected to the automatic dialing section of the facsimile communication control device and equipped with a facsimile sending function, stores and stores the created documents and figures, sends them to the desired destination via facsimile communication, and outputs them on recording paper. I can do it.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the facsimile communication control device of the present invention has an interface section having the same specifications as the input section of the printer, and is connected to a computer system, etc., and converts document codes specified by the printer into image codes specified by the facsimile. By connecting to the conventional facsimile function block via the code conversion unit, it is possible to eliminate the hassle and paper used to print out a printout using a printer and use the printed paper as manuscript paper for facsimile transmission using a facsimile machine. effective.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of the facsimile communication control device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flow diagram showing an example of the main operating procedure according to FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 4 is a connection system diagram showing an example of a conventional connection system, 10...Facsimile communication control device, 11...Printer interface unit, 4... ...Document code generation unit, 5...Image code conversion unit, ...Computer system.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A printer interface unit that includes an information input/output connection function of a printer serving as a computer terminal; a document code creation unit that creates a print document code from printing information and print setting conditions received via this interface unit; an image code conversion unit that converts the printed document code of the code creation unit into an image code with the same conditions as the image code obtained by imaging and outputs the image code; and a facsimile communication unit that inputs the image code obtained by converting the printed document code and transmits it to the communication line. A facsimile communication control device comprising: