JPH0322115B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a facsimile receiving device that responds by voice to inquiries from a telephone regarding the presence or absence of received copies.

Conventional facsimile receiving devices are equipped with display devices such as buzzers and lamps to notify the presence or absence of received copies, but there is an inconvenience that the contents cannot be seen unless one goes close to the facsimile receiving device. For this reason, if you are located far away from the facsimile receiving device, you will not be able to tell who the copy is addressed to or how many copies there are. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile receiving device free from such drawbacks.

This invention will be explained below.

As shown in FIG. 1, in this invention, a received copy information recognition request (hereinafter referred to as IRCRQ) signal oscillator 10 is disposed near a telephone 1, and a facsimile receiving device (facsimile transmitting/receiving device) 20 is connected to the telephone 1.
Connect with telephone line 2. Therefore, when inquiring about the reception status of the facsimile receiving device 20, first disconnect the handset 3 of the telephone 1,
Operate the switch device 11 of the IRCRQ signal oscillator 10 to send an inquiry voice of a predetermined code to the speaker 12.
and transmits it to the facsimile receiving device 20. The facsimile receiving device 20 detects the transmitted inquiry signal, converts the data stored up to that point into a predetermined code signal, and outputs this as a response voice via the telephone 1. As a result, the receiving status of the facsimile receiving device 20 can be known from the distant telephone 1, and there is no need to go to the trouble of going to the vicinity of the facsimile receiving device 20 to check it, unlike in the past.

2 and 3 show the details. As shown in FIG. 2, the IRCRQ signal oscillator 10 includes an oscillator 13 that outputs a clock CP of a predetermined frequency and a clock CP from the oscillator 13. A frequency dividing circuit 14 that rotates, a coding circuit 15 for coding the frequency divided output DS of the frequency dividing circuit 14 into a pattern signal PS for communicating with the facsimile receiving device 20, and a A modulation circuit 16 that converts the pattern signal PS into a signal corresponding to the transmission speed of the telephone line 2, a speaker 12 that outputs the signal from the modulation circuit 16 as audio via an amplifier 17, and a desired inquiry command. It is composed of a switch device 11.
Further, the output of the switch device 11 is input to the control circuit 18, and based on this selection command, the control circuit 18
are frequency dividing circuit 14, encoding circuit 15, modulation circuit 1
6 and amplifier 17.

On the other hand, the facsimile receiving device 20 includes a conventional facsimile transceiver 20A and a network control device 20B connected to the telephone line 2. is provided. Therefore, in this invention, the received signal RS from contact b of the changeover switch 21 is inputted to detect the IRCRQ signal.
IRCRQ detection circuit 22, automatic destination code sent from facsimile transceiver 20A, TTI
An IRC storage circuit 23 that stores received copy information recognition (hereinafter referred to as IRC) signals such as the above, and a code conversion circuit 24 that encodes and modulates the IRC signal from this IRC storage circuit 23 are provided. Circuit 22~ based on the detection DT from
A control circuit 25 for controlling 24 is provided. Note that in FIGS. 2 and 3, solid lines indicate the flow of data, and broken lines indicate control signals. Further, the code conversion circuit 24 converts and modulates the code into a code that can be transmitted over a telephone line, and outputs a specific pattern such as a pseudo voice, a single tone or a compound tone, or Morse code.

In such a configuration, when the changeover switch 21 is switched to the contact a, the image signal is transmitted, but since this is exactly the same as a conventional facsimile, the explanation will be omitted. In addition, selector switch 2
When switch 1 is switched to contact b, the image signal RS transmitted via telephone line 2 and network control device 20B is received and a copy 20A10 is obtained.This receiving operation is exactly the same as that of a conventional facsimile machine, so we will explain it below. Omitted. During such reception operation, the image signal RS is input to the IRCRQ detection circuit 22,
When the IRCRQ signal is detected, the control rotation 25 operates based on the detection signal DT, and the decoder 20A7
The IRC signal from is stored in the IRC storage circuit 23.
In this way, the IRC storage circuit 23 in the facsimile receiving device 20 receives the image signals RS that are sequentially transmitted.
IRC signals are stored.

On the other hand, when making an inquiry to the facsimile receiving device 20 using the telephone 1, the number of the facsimile receiving device 20 is dialed using the telephone 2, and the handset 3 of the telephone 1 and the facsimile receiving device 20 are connected. Then, the user operates the switch device 11 of the IRCRQ signal oscillator 10 to specify desired inquiry items (for example, destination, number of sheets, date and time of reception, etc.). As a result, the IRCRQ signal oscillator 10 controls the control circuit 1
8, the frequency dividing circuit 1 outputs an inquiry sound corresponding to the specified item from the speaker 12.
4. Control the encoding circuit 15, modulation circuit 16 and amplifier 17. The inquiry sound output from the IRCRQ signal oscillator 10 is sent to the facsimile receiver 20 via the telephone 1, and the inquiry sound is decoded in the facsimile transceiver 20A, and the control circuit 20
The IRC storage circuit 23 and code conversion circuit 24 are controlled via A11 and A25, and the changeover switch 21 is switched to contact c. In this way, the IRC signal stored in the IRC storage circuit 23 is converted and modulated into a predetermined code by the code conversion circuit 24, and transmitted to the telephone 1 via the network control device 20B and the telephone line 2. A response sound is output from 3. This allows an operator or the like to know the reception status of the facsimile receiving device 20 over the telephone.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to know information regarding copies being received by telephone without going near the facsimile receiving device, and it is possible to improve usage efficiency.

In the above-described embodiment, the output of the IRCRQ signal oscillator 10 is obtained through a speaker, but the output of the modulation circuit 16 may be directly connected to the telephone circuit 2.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the principle of this invention.
FIGS. 2 and 3 are block diagrams showing one embodiment of the present invention. 1...Telephone, 2...Telephone line, 3...Handset, 10
...Received copy information recognition request (IRCRQ) signal oscillator, 11...Switch device, 12...Speaker, 1
3... Oscillator, 14... Frequency dividing circuit, 15... Coding circuit, 16... Modulation circuit, 17... Amplifier, 18... Control circuit, 20... Facsimile receiver, 20A... Facsimile transmitter/receiver, 20B... Network control device, 21
...Selector switch, 22...IRCRQ detection circuit, 23
...IRC storage circuit, 24...Code conversion circuit, 25...
control circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a facsimile receiving device that responds by voice to an inquiry from a remote telephone via a telephone line regarding the presence or absence of received data, the facsimile receiving device recognizes received copy information indicating the identification of the destination facsimile device from which the facsimile receiving device received the data. a storage means for storing a signal; a detection means for detecting a received copy information recognition request signal transmitted from a telephone via a telephone line; and a detection means for detecting a received copy information recognition request signal from the storage means based on an output of the detection means. The facsimile receiving device is provided with a control means for outputting the received copy information recognition signal and a converting means for converting the received copy information recognition signal into a signal outputted to the telephone with a response sound such as a pseudo voice, 1. A facsimile receiving device that responds by voice to an inquiry from a telephone, characterized in that the facsimile receiving device can be called up to make an inquiry.