JPH0349225B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Application of the Invention] The present invention relates to an improvement in a facsimile broadcast transmission system capable of transmitting image information of a plurality of original documents to a plurality of destinations.

[Prior art]

When using a facsimile device to perform so-called broadcast transmission, in which image information of the same document is sent to multiple destinations, the multiple destinations can be grouped into multiple destination groups each containing the required number of destinations. A multilayer broadcasting function is often required in which image information is separated and different image information is transmitted to the plurality of destinations using the destination group as a unit. This multi-layer broadcasting function uses the same number of mark cards as the number of destination groups to prepare documents to be sent to each destination group for each destination group, and then reads them into a facsimile machine. This can be achieved by sending the

However, if a common document exists between document groups sent to different destinations, the following inconvenience occurs.

That is, (1) If there are many destination groups, it is necessary to prepare a large number of identical manuscripts according to the number of destination groups.

(2) Since the same content of the original must be read repeatedly by the sending facsimile device, the time occupied by the sending facsimile device becomes longer.

In order to improve these inconveniences, you can batch only the documents that are common to each destination group, group all the destinations to which this common document should be sent, and after sending the common document, It may be possible to broadcast the manuscripts needed by each destination group individually, but in this case, the inconvenience of sending to one destination group multiple times may occur, making it difficult to effectively It couldn't be a solution.

[Purpose of the Invention] This invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and provides a sympathy transmission method in facsimile that simplifies the procedure for transmitting image information including partially common originals to different destination groups. The purpose is to provide

[Structure of the invention]

Therefore, in the present invention, a plurality of originals are divided into a plurality of original groups each containing a required number of originals, an identification code is set for each original group, and the read image information is stored in memory with the identification code attached. The above purpose is achieved by storing image information and, when starting broadcast transmission, searching for image information based on the identification code, and broadcasting the searched image information to destination groups in units of document groups. There is.

〔Example〕

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The facsimile broadcast transmission system according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings. To simplify the explanation, the first
As shown in the figure, the destinations are divided into two groups, A and B.
Group A includes, for example, East Branch E and South Branch S, and Group B includes, for example, West Branch W and North Branch N.
shall be included. Therefore, among the five manuscripts a, b, c, d, and e, three manuscripts a,
Group b and c as No. 1 group, and the remaining two manuscripts d and e.
Divided into No. 2 groups, No. 1 group's manuscript a,
b and c are sent to all destinations, that is, East Branch E and South Branch belonging to Group A, and West Branch W and North Branch N belonging to Group B, and manuscripts d and e of No. 2 Group are Let us consider the case of transmitting only to the west branch W and north branch N belonging to group B.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a transmitting side device to which the broadcast transmission system according to the present invention is applied. A document image is photoelectrically converted and read in a document reading section 1, and encoded in an image processing section 2. The original reading section 1 and the image processing section 2 are operated by a main controller 4 that is operated by input from a control panel 3.
controlled by. The image information encoded by the image processing section 2 is stored in the memory 6 via the data bus 5. This memory 6 is a large-capacity disk memory capable of storing image information of a plurality of original documents. The image information stored in the memory 6 is sent to the line via the transmission control section 7. In the memory 6, an image information file is created according to the following procedure. FIG. 3 shows a directory of diskette files in the memory 4, and FIG. 4 shows a flowchart.

The image information of the document is read by the document reading section 1 controlled by the main controller 4 according to instructions from the control panel 3. At this time, the identification code of the document group is input from the control panel 3. In this embodiment, as mentioned above, documents a, b, and c are No. 1, and documents d and e are No. 1.
The group number 2 is used as an identification code. Also, at this time, an encoding method is selected and specified as necessary. These group numbers and encoding method specifications are held in the register of the main controller 4, and when the image information is encoded in the image processing unit 2 and stored as a file in the memory 6, they are stored in the diskette file directory at the same time. is stored in The storage location is as shown in Figure 3. The valid range of the document group signal is an integer value from 1 to 255. If a document group number is not input, the group number is set to "0" (initial value), and the file is considered to be independent (non-group).

Next, when sending, control panel 3
From here, specify the following:

(1) Destination specification Group A (2) Transmission document specification Group No. 1 (3) Destination specification B group (4) Transmission document specification Group No. 1 and No. 2 With the above specifications, the main controller 4 As shown in Fig. 3, the document group number added to the directory of the diskette file is used to search for a file with that group number, and first, the image information of group No. 1 is read out and equated to group A. Send information. Next, groups No. 1 and No. 2
The image information is read out and broadcasted to group B. Through the above steps, the image information of documents a, b, and c will be broadcast to all destinations included in both groups A and B, and the image information of documents d and e will be broadcast only to destinations included in group B. It will be sent.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the broadcast transmission method for facsimile according to the present invention, image information is stored in a memory with an identification code representing a document group, and this image information file is stored in a memory using the identification code. Because the search is performed, there is no need to prepare multiple copies of the same document according to the number of destination groups, as is the case with conventional broadcast transmission methods, and the document can be sent to the same destination multiple times. Therefore, there is an effect that multi-layer broadcast transmission can be performed easily.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the broadcast transmission system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a transmitting side device to which the broadcast transmission system according to the invention is applied, and FIG. 3 is an illustration of a diskette file in the same memory. FIG. 4, which is a diagram showing a directory, is a flowchart showing a broadcast transmission system according to the present invention. 1... Original reading section, 2... Image processing section, 3...
...Control panel, 4...Main control device, 5...
...Data bus, 7...Transmission control section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Divide a plurality of manuscripts into a plurality of manuscript groups each containing a required number of manuscripts, set an identification code for each manuscript group, read the image information of the plurality of manuscripts, and assign the image information to the identification code. the image information stored in the memory is searched based on the identification code, and the searched image information is broadcasted to the destination group in the document group as a unit; A broadcast transmission method in facsimile that is characterized by: