JPH0290861A - Electronic bulletin system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily discriminate the propriety of the bulletin of a document by switching a picture dividing displaying means and an informing means to inform the number of sheets of the document capable of being bulletined on the picture of the document received from facsimile equipment according to at the time of polling reception or at the time of image data reception. CONSTITUTION:The memories 4a to 4b of a reception data processing part 3 to store image data received from the facsimile equipment are the memories to store the image data by a page unit, and the number of them is equal to the number same as the number of divisions of display, and besides, a register 5 records the use states of the memories 4a to 4b. When a person who desires to bulletin the document polls a bulletin control device 8 by using one of the facsimile equipments, a switching circuit 2 connects connection to a bulletin information generating part 7. The bulletin information generating part 7 reads information of the register 5, and generates bulletin information by image data on the basis of this information, and transmits it to the facsimile equipment having polled it. Thus, the document can be bulletined on a displayed picture, and the possibility of the bulletin of the document can be easily discriminated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Application in rL Business) The present invention relates to an electronic bulletin board system for posting document information on a display means such as a CRT from a remote location.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, in this type of electronic bulletin board system, as a method of transmitting posted document information, the document is transmitted as code data using 0111 for code data delivery, or the document is photographed using a water device. It was configured to send the image information as is.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) However, the conventional device as described above has the following drawbacks.

■ In the method of transmitting a document using code data, when transmitting a handwritten civil document, it is necessary to edit it once again into code data and then transmit it, which makes the operation complicated.

■ When photographing a document using a camera attachment and transmitting it electronically, one-way transmission (X) from the terminal side is required. The configuration is 4111.

It is an object of the present invention to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks, and when a document is desired to be displayed, a facsimile machine is used to perform a boring process, and after manually confirming information on the number of sheets that can be displayed, the information on the displayed document is sent from the facsimile machine. To provide an electronic posting system in which it is possible to easily determine whether a document can be posted or not by posting it on a display, and also to send a document without worrying about the format of the document. There is a particular thing.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an electronic bulletin system that can simultaneously display a plurality of pieces of document information transmitted from a plurality of facsimile machines on a display screen of a display means. There is a screen splitting display means for simultaneously displaying document information received from a facsimile machine on a display screen by dividing it into pages, and each document display area divided on the display screen is used for displaying the current document information. a notification means for notifying the number of documents that can be displayed to the facsimile machine J, and a circuit is switched to the notification means in response to the reception of boring from the facsimile machine, The present invention is characterized in that it is equipped with switching means for switching the circuit to the screen split display means in accordance with the reception of document information.

(Function J) The present invention provides facsimile equipment U from the first chi number knee.
a screen splitting display means for dividing and displaying a document received from a display screen on a display screen; and a screen splitting display means for dividing and displaying a document received from a display screen; The notification means for notifying the number of documents that can be posted is switched by the switching means depending on whether the boring is received or the image data is received.
If you wish to display a document, you can use a facsimile machine to perform a bowling operation, manually check the information on the number of documents that can be displayed, and then send the civil official to post from the facsimile machine and display the civil official on the display screen -F. It is possible to easily determine whether or not a document can be posted on a thousand websites, and it is also possible to send a document without worrying about the format of the civil official.

[Example] Hereinafter, practical examples of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the circuit configuration of a bulletin board control device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this figure, 1 is a transmitting/receiving unit that transmits and receives data to and from a facsimile machine (to be described later), 2 is a switching circuit that switches the connected circuit when receiving boring data via the transmitting/receiving unit 1, and 3 is an image data (posted document) received from the facsimile machine. This is a received data processing unit that stores information (page by page) in the memories 48 to 4b and records information of free memory in the memories 48 to 4b in the register 5. The memories 4a to 4b are memories that store image data in page units, and exist in the same number as the number of divisions of the display. Further, the register 5 is a register that records the usage status of the memories 48 to 4b.

6 reads image data from memories 48 to 4b;
A display signal generation unit 7 converts the display signal into a signal for display, and a bulletin information generation unit 7 generates image data of information to be transmitted to the facsimile machine based on the memory usage data in the register 5. 8 is a bulletin board control device constructed by JR using these circuits 1 to 6.

Reference numeral 9 denotes a display for displaying the posted manuscript information based on the video signal from the display signal generating section 6 mentioned above. Further, IO indicates the data flow direction during reception, and 11 indicates the data flow direction during bowling.

FIG. 2 shows the overall circuit configuration of an electronic bulletin board system according to an embodiment of the present invention using the bulletin board control device and display 9 shown in FIG. 1. In this diagram, 12 is an exchange system;
-f3d is a facsimile machine, 14 is a public telephone Pi! network,
15a to 15c are extension lines of the exchange system 12, and 16 is a signal line connecting the bulletin board control device H8 and the display 9.

FIG. 3 shows an example of screen division of the display 9 shown in FIG. 1, and the number of documents that can be displayed simultaneously is n pages.

FIG. 4 shows the correspondence between the contents of the register 5 in FIG. 1 and the image transmitted to the facsimile machine. In addition, Figure 5 shows that one bulletin board information is sent to the facsimile machine that has been boring.
The operation procedure of the bulletin board control device shown in FIG. 1 provided herein is shown.

Next, with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5, the method according to the present invention? The operation of the one-child bulletin board system will be explained.

A person who wishes to post a document on this posting system (hereinafter referred to as a person who wishes to post) first uses facsimile devices 13a to 13.
d to bowl the bulletin board control device M8. The switching circuit 2 in the bulletin board control device @8 confirms through the transmitter/receiver section 1 that the operation of one of the facsimile machines +3a to 13d is boring, and connects the wire to the bulletin information creating section 7 (step St).

The bulletin board information creation section 7 detects this connection, reads the information in the register 5 indicating the usage status of the display 9, creates bulletin board information as image data based on this read information, and sends the facsimile that has been bored. Device +3a~
13d. Here, 41 of the register 5 is made up of the same number of bits as the number of divisions of the display 9, as shown in 8 in FIG. 1,
The bit of the register corresponding to the unused portion is set to 0 by the received data IA embedding section 3.

Therefore, the bulletin information creation unit 7 reads the register length n of the register 5 into an internal counter (not shown) (step S2), and determines whether the value of the bit corresponding to the counter value is 0 or 1 (step S3). .S4). When the counter value is 1, the area of the display 9 corresponding to the bit is subjected to crosshatching as shown in FIG. 4b (step S5). On the other hand, if the counter value is 0, no processing is performed (step S6).

After processing the area corresponding to all P1- (step S
7. S8), convert the mesh line processing into image data (step S9), and send the image data to the facsimile machine that has sent it (step 5IQ).
. The image received by the facsimile machine is as shown in FIG. 4b.

Next, 18 is shown by an image as shown in l) of Fig.
The person who wishes to display the document who has received the first notification determines whether or not it is possible to display the document they wish to display on the screen of the display 9 based on the display information, and if it is possible to display the document on the screen of the display 9, the person who wishes to display the document
A document desired to be displayed is transmitted to the bulletin board control device 8 using one of 3a to +3d. The switching circuit 2 of the bulletin board control device 8 is
The reception of the document is confirmed through the transmitting/receiving section 1, and the wire is connected to the received data processing section 3. The received data processing unit 3 records the image data of the received document in the memories 48 to 4b at the 11th position of page i, and records the memory usage status in the register 5.
Record to.

The data in the memories 48 to 4b are read out by the display signal generation section 6 at regular intervals. The display signal generation section 6 converts the image data read out from the memories 48 to 4b into signals for display on the display 9, and constantly displays the image data in the memories 48 to 4b.
Continue sending issues. As shown in FIG. 3, the number of documents that can be displayed simultaneously on the display 9 is n pages.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a screen splitting display means for splitting and displaying a document received from a facsimile machine on a display screen, and The notification means sends information indicating whether or not each document display area is currently displaying a document to the facsimile machine and notifies the number of documents that can be displayed. Since the document is switched depending on the time of reception, when a document is to be displayed, a facsimile machine is used to check the number of pages that can be displayed, and then the facsimile machine sends the document to be posted and the document is displayed. Since it can be posted on the screen, you can easily determine whether or not a document can be posted, and it also has the effect of allowing you to send a document without worrying about its format. can get.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing the main circuit configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a block diagram showing the overall circuit configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of the main part of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 734 is an explanatory diagram showing the correspondence between the configuration of the register in FIG. 1 and the image sent to the facsimile machine, and FIG. 1...Transmission/reception unit, 2...Switching circuit, 3...Reception data processing unit, 48-4b...Memory, 5...Register, 6...Display signal generation unit, 7 . . . Bulletin information creation unit, 8 . . 1 Indication O-port device, 9 . . . Display, 12 .
Public line network, 15a-15c...Exchange extensions. English 1 Suga Yu.)'s current knowledge is that the block diagram of the master is a master figure. English 1st color 9 Busy L-'y"Sufu's old-F Shishio 1) Morihazuki to show the customer "Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) An electronic bulletin board system capable of simultaneously displaying a plurality of pieces of document information transmitted from a plurality of facsimile machines on a display screen of a display means, wherein the document information received from the facsimile machines screen splitting display means for simultaneously displaying divided pages on the display screen; and information indicating whether each document display area divided on the display screen is currently being used for displaying document information. Notifying means for notifying the number of documents that can be posted to the facsimile device; switching a circuit to the notifying means in response to a boring reception from the facsimile device; and switching a circuit to the notification means in response to receiving the document information from the facsimile device; 1. An electronic bulletin board system comprising: switching means for switching a circuit to a divided display means.