JPH0258474A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To preferentially output an urgent document among substituting receiving original by reading the corresponding urgent document preferentially from a memory and outputting it from a recording part with an urgent document preferentially outputting means when the fact that the urgent document is received with a retrieving means is identified. CONSTITUTION:When the recording system abnormality of paper shortage, a paper jamming, etc., is generated, a control part 3 stores demodulated picture data in a picture memory 10. After that, when the recording system abnormality is canceled, a substituting receiving original stored in the picture memory 10 is read and transmitted to a decoding part 7, and the picture data is reproduced, and printed out in a recording sheet at a recording scanning part 8 and outputted. Then, an urgent document judging means 31 of the control part 3 judges whether a receiving original is an urgent document or not according to notice from communicating objective facsimile equipment, and an urgent document preferentially outputting means 32 records and outputs the receiving original detected by the urgent document judging means 31 at the time of the output of the substituting receiving original prior to other general document. Thus, on substituting-receiving at the recording system abnormality, the urgent document can be preferentially outputted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to a facsimile device having a proxy reception function.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, when transmitting an emergency document, the sending facsimile machine adds information indicating that the document is an emergency document to the beginning of the transmission image as shown in FIG. By receiving the transmitted image and recording and outputting it, it is possible to immediately recognize whether it is an emergency document. However, recent facsimile machines have a proxy reception function that stores received documents in memory when there is a paper shortage, paper jam, or other recording system abnormality, and when this function is activated, all of the above-mentioned emergency documents are also stored in memory. Put it away. The substitute received documents stored in this memory are outputted in order from the first received substitute document when the recording paper is set. Recently, memory has become available at low prices, and the number of pages that can be received on behalf of this type of facsimile machine has increased from several tens to several hundred. Therefore, in places where there is a large number of communications, it is quite difficult to output the documents that are received on behalf of the user. It takes a lot of time.

Therefore, even if the sender adds information indicating that the document is an urgent document and sends it, if the document is output late, the document loses its urgency and is delayed in reaching the destination. Furthermore, even if the sender of the emergency document has contacted you by phone in advance, the recipient's facsimile device outputs the documents received on behalf of the recipient in the order in which they were received, so there are many pages that were received on behalf of the recipient before receiving the emergency document. However, there was a problem in that the user had to wait for a considerable amount of time until the emergency document was output.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, in the conventional facsimile machine, even if the sending facsimile machine has added information indicating an emergency document, the receiving facsimile machine cannot record paper shortages, jams, etc. When proxy reception is performed due to system abnormality, the output of the proxy reception manuscripts is output in the order in which they were received, so there is a problem in that emergency documents cannot be obtained immediately. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention aims to eliminate this problem and provides a facsimile machine that can output urgent documents preferentially.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention stores received originals in a memory when an abnormality occurs in a recording system, and when the abnormality is removed, outputs the originals stored in the memory from a recording unit. a facsimile device that determines whether or not a received document is an emergency document; and a facsimile device that determines whether a received document is an emergency document; a search means for searching the registration means to determine whether or not an emergency document has been received when the abnormality in the recording system is removed; and a search means for searching the registration means when the abnormality is removed. If it is determined that an emergency document has been received in the emergency document, the emergency document priority output means reads out the corresponding emergency document from the memory and outputs it from the recording section. .

(Function) In the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, the emergency document determination means determines whether the received document is an emergency document or not, and notifies the registration means of the result. The registration means registers that the received document is an emergency document when the received document is determined to be an emergency document by the emergency document determination means. When the abnormality in the recording system is cleared, the retrieval means searches the registration means to determine whether an emergency document has been received or not, and notifies the urgent document priority output means of the result. When the search means determines that an emergency document has been received, the emergency document priority output means reads out the corresponding emergency document from the memory and outputs it from the recording section. As a result, urgent documents are outputted with priority among the substitute received documents.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the 77-kushimi device of the present invention. 1 is a reading scanning unit that reads the contents of a document and converts it into image data, 2 is an encoding unit that encodes both data from the reading scanning unit 1, and 3 is a control unit that controls various controls such as transmission/reception control and proxy reception control, and controls the entire device. 4 is a transmitting/receiving unit having a modulation/demodulation circuit 41 and a network control circuit 42; 5 is a telephone line; 6 is a telephone line connected to the network control circuit 42; 7 is a control unit that performs control;
8 is a decoding unit that naturalizes the demodulated image data; 8 is a recording scanning unit that prints and outputs the image data on recording paper; 9 is an input unit 9
1, an operation panel section having a display section 92; 10, an image memo 1 for storing received image data; and 11, a character generator for generating character patterns.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained. After setting a document on the reading/scanning section 1, inputting dial information from the input section 91 and connecting the line to the other party using the network control circuit 42, a communication instruction is issued from the input section 91.

As a result, the reading/scanning section 1 reads the original document to generate image data, and this image data is encoded by the encoding section 2 and then sent to the transmitting/receiving section 4 via the control section 3. Transceiver section 4
The modulation/demodulation circuit 41 modulates the encoded image data, and then transmits it onto the line 5 from the network control circuit 42. Note that the telephone I6 is connected to the line 5 alternatively to the facsimile main body side.

On the other hand, when the network control circuit 42 receives a call signal from the other party's facsimile machine via the line 5 and closes the line, the control unit 3 performs a predetermined protocol communication and then receives the image data. Both data pass through the network control circuit 42, are modulated by a modem circuit 41, and then sent to the IM code naturalization 7 via the control section 3. After decoding the received image data, the decoding section 7 sends it to the recording scanning section 8 to print it on recording paper and output it. However, if a signal indicating an emergency document is received in the protocol communication at the time of reception, a predetermined character (message) is generated by the character generator 11, and this character is sent to the recording scanning section 8 at the beginning of the received data. A message indicating that it is an emergency document is printed out on recording paper.

At the time of reception, if a recording system abnormality such as a paper shortage or a paper jam occurs in this facsimile apparatus, the control section 3 stores the image data demodulated by the modulation/demodulation circuit 41 in the image memory 10. Thereafter, when the control section 3 recognizes that the Moeki recording system abnormality has been resolved, it reads out the substitute reception manuscript stored in the image memo January O and sends it to the decoding section 7. The decoding section 7 decodes the received image data, reproduces both data, and sends it to the recording scanning section 8 to print it on recording paper and output it. By the way, the control section 3 is composed of, for example, a microcomputer, and has, in addition to control means for transmission/reception, reading and recording, etc., emergency document determination means 31 and urgent document priority output means 32 as shown in FIG. Among these, the emergency document determination means 31 determines whether the received document is an emergency document or not, depending on whether or not it is notified that the document sent from the facsimile device of the communicating party is an emergency document. The emergency document priority output means 32 records and outputs the received manuscript detected by the emergency document determination means 31 at the time of outputting the substitute received manuscript with priority over other general documents.

Here, the control operation of the control section 3 will be explained according to the operation flowchart shown in FIG.

First, in step 301, the process waits for an incoming call, and if an incoming call is detected, the process proceeds to step 311, and if not detected, the process proceeds to step 302. In step 302, it is determined whether or not the substitute received manuscript can be outputted. If output is possible, the process proceeds to step 319; if not, the process proceeds to step 303. In step 303, it is determined whether or not it is a calling operation. If it is not a calling operation, the process returns to step 301, and if it is a calling operation, the process proceeds to step 304. In step 304, it is determined whether or not the called facsimile device can perform emergency expenditure processing. If emergency expenditure processing cannot be performed, the process proceeds to step 310 and normal call processing is performed. If emergency document processing can be performed, step 305 Proceed to. Here, in step 304, capability information of the called terminal is obtained from the N5F (non-standard capability) signal during protocol communication as shown in FIG. 4 after the line is connected, and it is determined whether or not emergency document processing can be performed. judge. In step 305, it is determined from the input unit 91 whether or not the document to be transmitted is designated as an emergency document. If the designation is not made, the process proceeds to step 310; if the designation is made, the process proceeds to step 30B, where the document to be transmitted is determined to be an emergency document. This is notified to the facsimile machine on the called side using the NSS (non-standard Q = function setting) signal during protocol communication shown in FIG. Next, after passing through a predetermined procedure such as transmitting a TCP signal in FIG.
to the called party. Next, in step 308, it is determined whether or not the transmission of image data for one page has been completed. If not, the process returns to step 307, and if it has been completed, the process proceeds to step 309 to determine whether there is a next page. determine whether
If there is a next page, the process returns to step 307; if there is no next page, the transmission process ends.

On the other hand, if an incoming call is detected in step 301, step 3
11, where it notifies the calling side facsimile machine using the NSF signal shown in FIG. 4 that it is possible to designate an emergency document. Next, in step 312, it is determined whether or not there is an abnormality in the recording system, and if there is no abnormality, the process proceeds to step 318 and normal incoming call processing is performed. If there is an abnormality in the recording system, proceed to step 3.
Proceed to step 13 to determine whether the document sent from the calling party is an emergency document, and if it is not an emergency document, proceed to step 3.
The process proceeds to step 15, and if there is, the process proceeds to step 314. In step 314, the fact that the received document is an emergency document is registered in the file management area of the main memory in the control unit 3, and step 3
Proceed to step 15. In step 315, the image data received by the transmitter/receiver 4 is stored in the image memory 10, and in step 3
The process proceeds to step 16 to determine whether or not reception of one page of image data has been completed. If not, the process returns to step 315. If it has been completed, the process proceeds to step 317 to determine if there is a next page of received manuscript. Determine if no, and if yes, step 31
Return to step 5, and if there is none, the process ends.

Next, in step 302, if it is possible to output the substitute document, the process proceeds to step 319, and the file management area is searched to determine whether there is an urgent document.If there is no urgent document, the process proceeds to step 321, and the image is Documents are read out from the memory 10 in the order of reception, and sent to the recording/scanning section 8 via the decoding section 7 to perform normal substitute reception output processing. If it is determined that there is an emergency document, the process proceeds to step 320, where the emergency document is first read out from the image memo January O, and is provided to the recording scanning section 8 via the decoding section 7. After the emergency document is outputted from the recording scanning section 8 with priority in this way, the process proceeds to step 321.In addition, when reading out the emergency document from the image memory and giving it to the recording scanning section 8 at step 320, the character generator 11 A process is performed in which a character pattern indicating that the document is an emergency document is generated from the document, and this character pattern is first given to the recording/scanning section 8. Therefore, the emergency document is printed out from the recording scanning section 8 as shown in FIG.

According to this embodiment, when an abnormality in the recording system such as no recording Mi is cleared, an emergency document is first taken out from the image memory 10 and outputted from the recording scanning section 8, and the output document as shown in FIG. Since this clearly indicates that the document is an emergency document, the operator can immediately know the output of the emergency document. In addition, even if there is a notification to send an emergency document in advance, such as during the first episode, and there are a large number of substitute reception manuscripts, the emergency document will be output first, so the operator can immediately obtain the desired emergency document without waiting. be able to.

Note that the information indicating that the document is an emergency document may be added by the sending facsimile device, or may be added when the receiving facsimile device prints out the document.

In addition, if you combine this function with a function that notifies the operator with a buzzer or lamp when an emergency document is received, and prompts the operator to set the recording paper as soon as possible, the emergency document can be provided to the receiving operator even more quickly. can do.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the facsimile apparatus of the present invention,
This has the effect of outputting urgent documents preferentially.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the control section shown in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart of the control section shown in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a communication procedure between a sending side facsimile machine and a receiving side facsimile machine, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of outputting an emergency document. 3...control unit 4...transmission/reception unit 7...1! ! Encoding unit 8...Record scanning unit 9...Operation panel unit 10...Image memory 11...Character generator agent Patent attorney Nori Chika Ken Yudo Yamashita Figure 2 Figure 4 Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a facsimile machine that stores a received document in a memory when an abnormality occurs in a recording system, and outputs the document stored in the memory from a recording section when the abnormality is removed, it is determined whether the received document is an emergency document. an emergency document determination means; a registration means for registering that the received document is an emergency document when the received document is determined to be an emergency document by the emergency document determination means; and a registration means for registering that the received document is an emergency document; and a search means for searching the registration means to determine whether or not an emergency document has been received; and emergency document priority output means for preferentially reading out a corresponding emergency document from the memory and outputting it from the recording section.