JPH027771A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent waste of recording paper in a reception side facsimile equipment by applying edit and size conversion of a picture signal when the reception side facsimile equipment is able to record the signal of larger size than the size of an original to be sent. CONSTITUTION:When the size of the recording paper provided to the reception side facsimile equipment detected by the 2nd detection means 13 in the main scanning direction at the recording, that is, the width of the recording paper is larger than the size of the transmission original detected by the 1st detection means 11 at reading, the picture data stored in the storage means 12 is sent from the facsimile equipment main body by an editing means 14, 10 while plural pages of the data are arranged in the broadwise direction of the recording paper provided to the reception side facsimile equipment and edited into a picture data of the width of the recording paper. Thus, the recording paper is used fully in the reception side facsimile equipment and a picture without excess space is obtained and waste of recording paper is avoided.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Statement of the Invention] (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a facsimile device that can edit and transmit image data.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, when a facsimile device performs facsimile transmission, the receivable size of the receiving facsimile device is detected from the function information of the receiving facsimile device transmitted from the receiving facsimile device during the communication procedure. If the receiving facsimile machine's receivable size is larger than or the same as the sending original size, leave it as is; if the receiving facsimile machine's receivable size is smaller than the sending original size, the sending image data is transferred to the receiving side. The size is reduced to a size that can be received by the facsimile machine and then sent.

Therefore, if the receiving facsimile machine's receivable size is larger than the sending document size, there will be margins in the received document obtained by the receiving facsimile machine, resulting in the problem of wasted recording paper. was there.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As mentioned above, in conventional facsimile machines, the receiving facsimile machine receives a document larger in size than the transmitted document.
Even with iJ-Noh, since the original size is sent as it is, there is a problem in that the received original has extra margins and recording paper is wasted.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile device that can send out image data without creating extra blank space on a received document, and can prevent waste of recording paper in the receiving facsimile device.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention provides a facsimile apparatus main body 10 as shown in FIG.
In addition, a first detection means 11 for detecting the size in the main scanning direction when reading the transmitted original, a storage means 12 for storing image data of the transmitted original, and this storage means 12.
a second detecting means 13 for detecting the receiving capability of a receiving facsimile device which is a communication partner to which the image data stored in the image data is transmitted; The first detection means 11 determines the size of the recorded paper in the main scanning direction during recording.
If the size in the main scanning direction is larger than the size in the main scanning direction when reading the transmission document obtained by Number of columns/pages/
Editing means 14 is provided for editing the size of the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile machine in the main scanning direction at the time of recording in the rotated state.

(Function) By forming such a groove in the means, the size in the main scanning direction during recording of the recording paper provided in the receiving side facsimile device detected by the second detecting means 13,
That is, if the width of the recording paper is larger than the size in the main scanning direction detected by the first detection means 11 at the time of reading the transmitted document, that is, the width of the transmitted document, the width of the recording paper is stored in the storage means 12 such as a memory. The stored image data is edited by the editing means 14 in the main scanning direction when recording on the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile machine, that is, in the width direction of the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile machine! The image data is sent out from the facsimile main body 10 in a state in which the pages are lined up and edited to the width of the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile machine.

Therefore, the recipient's facsimile machine uses the full amount of recording paper, and images with no extra margins can be obtained, so that no recording paper is wasted.

(Embodiment) A facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the device.

In the figure, reference numeral 20 denotes a reading scanning section which reads image information of a set transmission original (not shown) and provides an image signal 111 obtained by this reading to an encoding section 21. The encoding unit 21 encodes the manually input image signal into 71 code. Here, the image signal encoded in No. 71 is temporarily stored in an image memory 23 serving as the storage means 12 via the control section 22. Recorded in image memory 23
1! The image signal thus obtained is read out by the control section 22, introduced into the transmitter/receiver section 24, modulated by the modulation/demodulation circuit 24a, and then sent out to the line 25 from the network control circuit 24b.

In addition, in the same figure, 26 is a telephone, 27 is a decoding unit,
28 is a recording scanning section, 29 is a human power section 29a and a display section 29b
It is an operation panel consisting of.

By the way, the control section 22 has, for example, a microcomputer as a main control circuit, and in addition to the control means for transmission/reception and reading/recording, as shown in FIG. When the receivable size of the document size detecting means 22a as the means 11 and the receiving facsimile machine is larger than the size of the transmitted document, two pages of image data stored in the image memory 23 are arranged horizontally. It is provided with an image data readout control means 22b for reading out the image data as shown in FIG.

Next, the operation of the facsimile apparatus configured as described above will be explained according to the processing procedure of the control section 22. First, the control section 22 monitors incoming calls and outgoing calls in steps 4a and 4b as shown in FIG.

Here, when an incoming call occurs, the control section 22 performs well-known general incoming call processing in step 4c.

On the other hand, when a call occurs in step 4b, the control section 22 controls the document size detection means 22a in step 4d.
The size of the original to be sent is detected and determined. This document size determination can be performed using well-known methods such as reading one line of the document and calculating the document size from the image signal obtained by this reading, or detecting the document size from the position of the document guide on the document table. It is done.

Subsequently, the control section 22 causes the reading/scanning section 21 to read the transmission document in step 4e, and stores the image signal obtained by this reading in the image memory 23 in step 4f. Then, in step 4g, the control section 22 causes the network control circuit 24b to send out a dial signal corresponding to the telephone number manually entered by the operator from the human power section 29a. here,
When the called facsimile machine responds and the line is connected, the control section 22 performs image data transmission preparation processing such as transmission and reception of functional information and training in step 4h.

Next, in step 41, the control unit 22 determines that the receivable size of the receiving facsimile device, which was notified from the receiving facsimile device during the both data transmission preparation process in step 4h, is the size of the transmitted document determined in step 4d. It is determined whether the size is larger than the size of . If the receivable size of the facsimile machine on the receiving side is less than or equal to the size of the transmitted document, the control unit 22 performs a well-known normal transmission process in step 4J.

On the other hand, if the receiving facsimile machine's reception size is larger than the size of the transmitted document in step 41, the control section 22 reads out the image signal from the image memory 23 in step 4k. At the time of reading, the image signal readout control means 22b controls the readout of the image signal stored in the image memory 23 so that the readout image signal becomes an image signal of a state in which the document is spread across two pages in the horizontal direction. do. This readout control transfers both signals to the image memory 2.
This is realized by a method such as storing the data in a predetermined area when storing the data in the 3rd page, and reading it out in a preset order when reading the data. As a result, the image signal obtained by reading the transmission original is edited into an image signal of two pages of originals arranged horizontally. Then, in step 4m, the control unit 22 enlarges or reduces the edited image signal by the size converting means 22 so that it becomes an image signal of a size receivable by the receiving facsimile machine, and in step 4m, modulates and demodulates the image signal. After modulating the image data in the circuit 24a, it is sent from the network control circuit to the line 25. Here, the control section 22 waits until the sending of all the image data stored in the image memory 23 is completed in step 4n. When this is completed, call termination processing such as notification of image data transmission completion and line disconnection processing is performed in step 4o, and the processing is terminated.

As described above, according to this embodiment, when the receiving facsimile device is capable of recording a size larger than the size of the transmitted original, the image signal is converted into an image signal of two pages of originals arranged horizontally. Since the document is edited, enlarged or reduced to a size that can be received by the receiving facsimile machine, and then sent, the receiving facsimile machine uses all the recording paper and can obtain a received original without any extra blank space.

Therefore, the recording paper of the receiving facsimile machine can be used effectively and without waste.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.

For example, in the above embodiment, processing such as editing and size conversion is performed based on the →) size of the sent document and the receivable size of the receiving facsimile device. The above process may be performed by focusing only on the width of the recording paper. Also,
In the above embodiment, the image signal is edited and the size is converted when the receiving facsimile machine is capable of recording a size larger than the noise of the transmitted document. The image signal may be edited and sent only when the size of the originals that can be received by the receiving facsimile machine is reached when the originals are arranged horizontally. Also in history, L
In the embodiment described above, a 2 page manuscript is written in 11ζ, but a manuscript of 33 pages or more may be made in 1 (11ζ). Various modifications are possible within this range.

[Effects of the Invention] The present invention provides a first detection means for detecting the size of the main scanning nozzle in the j direction when reading a transmission original, a storage means for storing image data of the transmission original, and a first detection means for storing the image data of the transmission original; and a second detection means for detecting the receiving capability of the receiving facsimile apparatus which is the communication partner to which the stored image data is transmitted, and the receiving facsimile apparatus obtained by the second detecting means is equipped with When the size in the main scanning direction of the recorded recording paper during recording is larger than the size in the main scanning direction when reading the transmission document obtained by the first detection means, the image data stored in the storage means is the size in the main scanning direction of the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile device when a plurality of pages are lined up in the main scanning direction when recording, and the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile device when recording; Since the facsimile apparatus is configured to edit the facsimile apparatus in such a way that it can send out image data without creating extra blank space on the received original, the facsimile apparatus can prevent waste of recording paper in the facsimile apparatus on the receiving side.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a facsimile device according to the present invention, and FIGS. 2 to 4 are diagrams illustrating a facsimile device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 13 is a functional block diagram showing the configuration of the control section, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the control section. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10...Facsimile apparatus body, 11...First detection means, 12...Storage means, 13...Second detection means, 14...Editing means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a first detection means for detecting the size in the main scanning direction when reading a transmitted original; a storage means for storing image data of the transmitted original; and a communication partner to which the image data stored in the storage means is transmitted. a second detecting means for detecting the reception capability of the receiving facsimile apparatus, and a size in the main scanning direction of the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile apparatus during recording, which is obtained by the second detecting means; is larger than the size in the main scanning direction at the time of reading the transmission document obtained by the first detection means, the image data stored in the storage means is recorded on a recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile machine. The facsimile apparatus is characterized by comprising an editing means for editing a plurality of pages arranged in the main scanning direction at the time of recording to the size of the recording paper provided in the receiving facsimile machine in the main scanning direction at the time of recording. facsimile machine.