JPH033475A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To sent a receipt to a caller after a recipient confirms facsimile reception by itself by storing a receipt to be sent in advance, calling a connection destination, transmitting the receipt with one button operation on a facsimile equipment. CONSTITUTION:The equipment is provided with a receipt memory 10 storing a document being a receipt, a receipt generation command section 12 commanding the generation of the receipt, a document synthesis section 13 extracting a document from a receipt memory 10 when the command is received from the receipt generation command section 12 and generating a transmission document including a sender name and a date and a picture signal conversion storage section 14 converting and storing the generated transmission document into a picture signal. Moreover, a facsimile communication section 17 extracting a picture signal stored in the picture signal conversion storage section 14 and sending the signal to the connection destination when the transmission enable is received from the connection destination equipment is provided. When the recipient of the facsimile picture confirms the received content, the receipt is sent in the facsimile equipment to the destination by commanding the generation of the receipt being a simple operation and calling the caller of the received facsimile with dialing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine having a screen transmission/reception function.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional facsimile machines, when the connection destination and the communication path are directly connected by dialing, after confirming the function, the front side of the document placed at a predetermined position on the sending side is converted into an electrical signal and transmitted to the receiving side. On the receiving side, the received electrical signals are reproduced on a screen and recorded on recording paper.

When the transfer is completed, the facsimile machines on the sending and receiving sides confirm that the electrical signal transmission and reception was normal and then recover.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned facsimile machine is configured to reliably transfer the screen information of the document from the sender to the receiver via facsimile communication, so it is up to the receiver to know whether it was recorded correctly on the receiver or whether it has reached the receiver. Either the sender needs to confirm by phone, or the recipient needs to confirm by phone to the sender. In particular, in the case of automatic transmission, the call is automatically connected and then sent automatically, so even though it is impossible to confirm the transmission while doing other work, once the recipient receives it, they lose the opportunity to contact them and forget to contact them. However, there were also problems in that communication over the phone was uncertain due to the absence of the person on the other end, and facsimile transmission required time and effort to prepare and send documents.

The present invention memorizes the receipt to be sent in advance, calls the connection destination (the source of the received facsimile), and then sends the receipt by facsimile with a single button operation.
An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile machine that solves the above problems.

[Means to solve the problem]

A facsimile apparatus according to the present invention includes a receipt memory that stores a document to be a receipt, a receipt creation instruction section that instructs the creation of a receipt, and when receiving an instruction from the receipt creation instruction section, retrieves the document from the receipt memory and sends the document to the sender. a document synthesis unit that creates a transmission document including name and date and time, an image signal conversion storage unit that converts and stores the created transmission document into an image signal, and an image signal conversion storage unit that receives transmission permission from a connected device. and a facsimile communication section that extracts the image signal being stored in the terminal and sends it to the destination.

[Effect]

The facsimile apparatus of the present invention according to the above-mentioned means, when the recipient confirms the received contents on the facsimile screen, sends the receipt to the other party by facsimile by calling the sender of the received facsimile by dialing along with a simple operation instruction to create a receipt. can.

〔Example〕

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

Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention;
The figure is a text diagram showing an example of the receipt created in FIG. 1.

In FIG. 1, the facsimile machine is a receipt document memo! 710. Date and time information forming section 11. Receipt work.

composition instruction section 122 document synthesis section 132 image signal conversion storage section 14
2. It has a dial operation section 151, a communication control section 16°, and a facsimile communication section 17, and further includes a character registration section 20.

As shown in Figure 2, the receipt document memory 10 displays the message "Facsimile communication received at 12:34 on January 23rd.

■ABC Akasaka”, the date and time part and the personal name “Akasaka” (
In FIG. 2, the underlined portion) is a blank space and is stored in advance. The storage type may be an image signal from a screen, but a language processing signal from a program is preferable in terms of storage capacity. The date and time information forming section 11 receives clock pulses, and after initial setting, automatically forms and outputs the month, day, hour, and minute. The receipt creation instruction section has a receipt sending button, and when this button is operated, a receipt creation instruction is output. When the document synthesis unit 13 receives a creation instruction from the receipt creation instruction unit 12, it takes out the memory document from the receipt document memory IO, inserts the date and time numbers received from the date and time information formation unit 11 into the memory document, and creates a communication. and outputs it to the image signal conversion storage section 14.

The character registration section 20 registers the personal name "Akasaka" shown in FIG. 2, and the document synthesis section 13 receives this and arranges it at a predetermined position on the receipt to form a document. If only the company name is required, the character registration section 20 is not necessary in this embodiment.

The image signal conversion storage section 14 converts the receipt formed and output by the document synthesis section 13 into an image signal as a screen for facsimile communication, and stores it in the same way as an image signal obtained from a normal transmission document. The dial operation unit 15 has a dial button, and when the dial button is operated, a calling signal to the line and a selection signal based on the operated dial code are transmitted. The dial operation unit 15 is a speed dial that automatically dials a normal dial number using a special number of several digits, or an automatic dial that stores a dial number corresponding to one button and automatically dials the memorized dial number for each specific button. can include. When the communication control unit 16 receives a calling signal from the dial operation unit 15, it transfers it to the line, then transfers the dial number to establish a communication path to the facsimile screen of the other party, and also closes the line after the dial number transfer is completed. Connect to facsimile communication section 17. A communication path is formed and the facsimile device 17, which is directly connected to the facsimile communication unit of the destination facsimile, transmits the image signal of the receipt stored in the image signal conversion storage unit 14 to the destination according to a predetermined facsimile communication procedure.

Next, the operating procedure will be explained with reference to FIG. Third
The figure is a flowchart showing an example of the main operation procedure of FIG. First, an instruction to create a receipt is generated in the receipt creation instruction section 12 by operating the receipt transmission button (101)L,
It is output to the document synthesis section 34. When the document synthesis section 34 receives the instruction to create a receipt, it retrieves the numerical information of the month, day, and time from the date and time information creation section 11, and displays the message "Facsimile communication received at 12:34 on January 23, 2008," as shown in FIG. did."
and create a document. Next, the character registration unit 20 calls the document synthesis unit receipt creation instruction unit 13 to display the characters “Who are you?”, and the characters “Akasaka” are registered according to a predetermined procedure (103
), the document synthesis unit 13 receives the registered characters and identifies the sender of the receipt and the recipient of the facsimile document.
``ABC Akasaka'' is synthesized into the receipt document and the creation is completed (104), and it is transferred to the image signal conversion storage section 14 where it is converted into an image signal for facsimile communication and stored in preparation for transmission.

The communication control unit 16, which is driven by the dial operation unit 15 by operating a dial button, transmits a call signal to the line, and then performs a predetermined dialing procedure (105) to transfer the dialed number and connect to the other party. Execute this to connect the line to the facsimile communication section 17. The facsimile communication unit 17 sends and receives signals directly to and from a connected facsimile device,
A predetermined facsimile communication procedure (10) in which the image signal conversion storage section 14 is asked whether there is a transmission image signal or not according to a predetermined procedure, and when the image signal is accumulated, the image signal is extracted and transmitted to the other party.
Execute 6).

FIG. 4 is a text diagram showing an example different from FIG. 2. In Fig. 2, in the character registration section 20 of Fig. 1, it was explained that the name of the sender of the receipt is registered with the guidance display "Who are you?", but the name of the company, department, or individual where the facsimile machine is installed is In the example, if ``■AB CJ'' is already registered, there is no need to register the sender's name.
When the registration procedure of 0 is sequentially switched to "Who is the sender of the receipt?" and "Who is the recipient of the receipt?" by button operation, the input characters are registered at a predetermined position on the receipt according to the guidance display.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of automatically synthesizing destination names according to the present invention. In FIG. 5, the same components as in FIG. 1 are given the same numbers and symbols, and their explanations will be omitted.

FIG. 5 has a connection destination designation section 30 instead of the character registration section 20 of FIG. The document synthesis section 34 shown in FIG. 5 creates, for example, the document shown in FIG. 4 described above, and the document synthesis section 13 shown in FIG. 1 creates the document shown in FIG. 2.

The connection destination designation section 30 has a connection destination button 31. Destination name memory 3
2 and a dial number memory 33, and registers a dial number and a destination name in advance in one connection button 0 Instead of making a call by operating the dial button of the call instruction section 15, one connection destination button 31 is operated. According to
Destination name memory 32 transmits the stored destination name to document synthesis section 34, and dial number memory 33 transmits a calling signal and a dial number to communication control section 16. Document synthesis section 34
In addition to the destination name from the destination name memory 32, the dial number can be called from the dial number memory 33 to synthesize documents, which can be freely changed by a program.

In this embodiment, the destination can be registered only once in advance, together with the registration of the dial number, when specifying the connection destination button. In addition, if there are multiple individual names of receipt senders, by pre-registering the sender's name for each predetermined button, it is possible to write and combine the sender's name on the receipt with a simple operation, and the number of receipts can also be specified by a number. It can be synthesized with a simple operation.

In the above embodiment, when instructing to create a receipt, it was explained that the date and time information is combined into the document, but if the reception time is recorded in the received facsimile document, this reception time can also be entered using the character registration stage. Good morning. It was explained that the receipt was stored in the receipt document memory as a code in advance to save memory capacity, but instead of being stored in advance, the receipt was stored as an image signal read from a predetermined standard paper on which the document was printed as a facsimile manuscript. The receipt may be created by a method in which the document synthesis unit immediately receives the receipt and synthesizes date and time information, etc. with the receipt.

Also, when multiple documents are sent from the same sender to the same recipient, the receipt that clearly identifies which document is the first half page that has a signal (not a blank page) received by facsimile is memorized along with the reception time. This can be achieved by sending back the receipt for half a page and the first part of the received screen for the remaining half page.

Furthermore, although the operational procedure has been described with illustrations, there is no problem even if the procedure before and after the start of the facsimile communication procedure is different. Although it has been explained that a signal is transmitted when a call is made by dialing, it is also possible to first make a call by operating the call button or off footer, and then proceed to the dial number transfer procedure.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the facsimile device of the present invention, a receipt document can be stored in advance, or if the position of registered characters such as date and time information is fixed, a fixed-form original in a predetermined format can be used to instruct receipt creation. When sending a fax, a receipt containing date and time information is sent by facsimile to the dialed destination, so after the recipient confirms that the fax has been received, the fax can be sent to the caller at any time by simply following the basic procedure for sending a fax. .

Adding unique characters such as the personal name and addressee to the receipt can be solved by equipping a character registration means and storing and registering them in advance in a simple operation means, such as a designation button, and also for document confirmation. It is possible to add a part of the received facsimile screen to the receipt and send it by facsimile, which has the great effect of allowing the facsimile screen recipient to confirm the facsimile communication with less effort.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a text diagram showing an example of a receipt according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a text diagram showing an example different from FIG. 2, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an embodiment different from FIG. 1. lO...Receipt document memory, 11...
Date and time information formation unit, 12...Receipt creation instruction unit,
13.34...Document synthesis section, 14...
Image signal conversion storage unit, 17...Facsimile communication unit, 20...Character registration unit, 30...Connection destination instruction unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A receipt memory that stores a document to be a receipt, a receipt creation instruction section that instructs the creation of a receipt, and when an instruction is received from the receipt creation instruction section, a document is retrieved from the receipt memory and a transmitted document including the sender's name and date and time. an image signal conversion storage unit that converts and stores the created transmission document into an image signal; and an image signal conversion storage unit that converts and stores the image signal that is being stored in the image signal conversion storage unit when transmission permission is received from the connected device. 1. A facsimile device comprising a facsimile communication unit that takes out and sends a facsimile to a destination.