JPH0349369A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the communication time and to economize recording paper in an equipment of the other party by providing a first means which designates the reduction synthesis value of a document to be transmitted, a second means which stores picture information read from the document in a memory, and a third means which transmits picture information stored in the second means after reduction conversion according with the reduction synthesis value from the first means. CONSTITUTION:An operator sets a document having A4 size to a paper feeding part 12 so that its longer side is in the main scanning direction, and he operates operation keys on an operation part 5 to set reduction synthesis and to instruct transmission. When detecting setting of reduction synthesis and instruction of transmission from the operation part 5, a control part 4 instructs a reading part 1 to reduce the original to the B4 or A4 size. The reading part 1 reads the document with a page as the unit and reduces read picture data to the instructed size and transfers it to an encoder 2. The encoder 2 stores encoded and compressed data in a picture memory 3. The control part 4 transmits picture data, which is managed as one page in the picture memory 3, from a transmission part 6 to a facsimile of the other party.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a facsimile machine that edits and transmits document information.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional facsimile machines set multiple originals to be sent on a sending table, compress and encode the image information read from the automatically fed originals, and then send one page of the original to one page.
Pages or long manuscripts are treated as multi-page correspondence.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional facsimile machine described above prints one page of the document one time.
Since it is treated as a page communication, even long manuscripts can be
The page requires normal communication time. Another drawback is that recording paper is wasted on the receiving side.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes a first means for specifying a reduced composite value of a document to be transmitted, a second means for storing image information read from the document in a memory, and a second means for specifying a reduced composite value of the document to be transmitted. and third means for reducing and transmitting the image information stored in the second means according to a composite value.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of first and second embodiments of the present invention.

The reading section 1 includes a document size detector 11 and a document feeding section 12, and has a function of reducing image data read from the document. The encoder 2 compresses the transmission time by encoding the image data. The image memory 3 has a capacity capable of storing multiple pages of compressed data. The control section 4 controls each section of this device via a control line IO. The operation unit 5 is equipped with various operation keys for an operator to operate the apparatus. The transmitter 6 transmits and receives communication control signals and transmits transmission data to the other party's facsimile machine.

A case will be described in which two pages of A4 original are reduced and combined into one page of 84 original or one page of A4 original with the above configuration. The operator sets the A4 document on the paper feed section 12 so that the long side direction is in the main scanning direction, and uses the operation keys of the operation section 5 to instruct reduction and composition settings and transmission. When the control unit 4 detects an instruction for reduction, synthesis and transmission from the operation unit 5, it instructs the reading unit 1 to reduce the original size and A3 to B4 or A4. The reading section 1 reads the document page by page, reduces the read image data to a specified size, and passes it to the encoder 2. The encoder 2 encodes the image data and stores the compressed data in the image memory 3. Regulation? The I11 unit 4 manages the accumulated data in page units, and manages two pages of compressed data from the encoder 2 as one page. The control section 4 causes the transmission section 6 to transmit the image data managed as one page in the image memory 3 to the other party's facsimile.

FIG. 2 is a data flow diagram for explaining the operation of the first embodiment. The image data read by the reading section 1 is compressed by the encoder 2, and the compressed data for two pages is made into one page, and the image data is multiplied by N in the image memory 3. When transmitting, the transmission data read from the image memory 3 is sent to the line through the transmitter 6.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

When reducing and combining two A4 original pages into one 84 original page or one A4 original page, the reading unit 1 reads the original page by page, reduces the read image data to the specified size, and transfers it to the image memory 3. . The control section 4 manages the image data stored in the image memory 3 in units of pages, and manages two pages of image data from the reading section 1 as one page. The control section 4 encodes the image data managed as one page in the image memory 3 using the encoder 2, and transmits the compressed data from the transmission section 6 to the destination facsimile.

FIG. 3 is a data flow diagram for explaining the operation of the second embodiment. The image data read by the reading section 1 is stored in the image memory 3 with two pages of image data as one page. When transmitting, the image data read from the image memory 3 is encoded by the encoder 2, and the compressed data is transmitted to the line through the transmitter 6.

In this way, in the second embodiment, the image data stored in the image memory 3 is raw data that is not encoded, so the data can be easily handled, and data cannot be replaced or edited. can.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, the present invention has the effect of shortening communication time and saving recording paper in the other party's facsimile machine by reducing and combining multiple pages of a redundant document into one page size and transmitting the same.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the first and second embodiments of the present invention;
FIGS. 2 and 3 are data flow charts for explaining the operations of the first and second embodiments. 1... Reading section, 2... Encoder, 3...
...Image memory, 4...Control unit, 5...
...Operation section, 6...Transmission section, 10...
・Control line, 11... Original size detector, 12.
...Paper feed section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a first means for specifying a reduced composite value of the original to be transmitted; a second means for storing image information read from the original in a memory; and a first means for specifying a reduced composite value of the original to be transmitted; and third means for reducing and transmitting the image information stored in the means.