JPH0349465A - Method for registering external character in facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain the registration of external characters without use of a large sized display screen such as a screen of a personal computer or a word processor by decomposing a pattern to be registered in the direction of rows and inputting a start position and an end position of consecutive dots in each row direction, thereby inputting the pattern. CONSTITUTION:A pattern to be registered is decomposed in the row direction and a start position and the end position of consecutive dots in each row are inputted to enter the pattern. For example, one pattern consists of 16X16 dots, 1st to 16th rows longitudinally and 1st to 16th columns laterally, the rows are selected sequentially and the start position and the end position of consecutive dots in each row are inputted to enter the dot positions. Thus, the registration of external characters is attained in a conventional facsimile equipment.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and particularly to a method for registering external characters in a facsimile machine.

(Prior art) Conventionally, facsimile machines have only built-in characters such as numbers, kana, Roman letters, and some symbols, and characters that are not built-in cannot be displayed or sent. Ta.

The reason for this is not only the storage capacity but also the lack of operation buttons. The facsimile machine has only 12 operation buttons, numbers O to 9, "*" and "#", and several function buttons.
As for kana and romaji, it is not possible to directly input them using operation buttons, and it is common to display them in sequence and make selections using function buttons. Since the purpose of the facsimile machine itself is to input images, there is little need to input kana or Roman characters, so I did not feel it was too inconvenient. However, with the digitalization of facsimile machines, the demand for inputting characters in addition to images is increasing. In this case, registration of external characters will inevitably be required. As mentioned above, since the facsimile machine itself has a small number of built-in characters, there is a strong demand for external characters. For example, when transmitting a sender's record to the other party's facsimile machine, if external characters are available, kanji or marks can be created and transmitted.

However, as described above, the number and types of operation buttons are small. Additionally, the display screen is small.

It is difficult to precisely display, for example, a 16×16 dot pattern on a one-line display screen, and registration of external characters has not been considered in conventional facsimile machines.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and has the purpose of, for example, accurately inputting a 16×16 dot pattern on a conventional one-line display screen. It has been done.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention provides a method for registering external characters in a facsimile machine, in which a pattern to be registered is broken down into rows, and the start and end positions of consecutive dots in each row are input. The feature is that the pattern is created manually.

(Function) FIG. 2 is for explaining the pattern input method in the present invention. One pattern will be explained as 16×16 dots. Let's call the horizontal lines "rows" and the vertical lines "columns." Therefore, the first to sixteenth rows are vertically arranged, and each row is the first to the sixteenth column. Of course, there is no harm in calling it the opposite.

In the present invention, dot positions are input by sequentially selecting these rows and inputting the start and end positions of consecutive dots in each row direction.

Let us express the start with "S" and the end with "E". That is, there are no dots in the first row. In the second row, there are dots in columns 5, 10, and 11. This is (S5E
5), (SIOE II), the start position and end position are manually set. r3J and rEJ are described for convenience of explanation and are not input. Then, the third line is (34E6), (39E9)
, (3 1 2E 1 2), and the fourth line is (35
E5), (38E8), (313E13).

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment of the external character registration method of the present invention, and FIG. 3 shows a schematic configuration diagram of the operating section.

In FIG. 3, 1 is a key switch section, 2 is an LCD (liquid crystal) display section, 3 is an LCD control section, and 4 is a CPU.

The user manually inputs the pattern by specifying the address of the external character to be registered using a function button (not shown) or the like. In this embodiment, the following arrangements are made.

■The above (S5E5) is manually converted to (0505).

(311E8) is (1108).

■For line break, enter (0000).

■Line breaks are performed regardless of the presence or absence of data.

Based on this arrangement, input starts from the first line (
Step). For example, on the display screen of the LCD display section 2, "
After the message "Input data is", the number of lines is displayed.The first line "201:" is displayed as r:xx:J, and the input of the first dot on the first line is requested ( Step 2). In the example shown in Figure 2, there is no dot in the first line, so the key switch section 1
0) (Stepa) o Move to Step 4,
Since (0000) has been input, the first line is finished, and the process moves to Step 5. Since it is not the last row, one row is added in Step 6 and the process returns to Step 2. The message is ``The input data is :02:J, and if you input <0505), the same message will be displayed again, input (1011), and in the next message input (0000), and Ste.
After going through p4 to p6, the process returns to step 2 and the third line is input. The third line is (0406), (0909), (1212
) (0000), the fourth line is (0505), (080
8), (1313), (0000) in sequence, and
(0000) is input in the 6th line, and the input of one pattern is completed.

The input pattern is displayed on the LCD display section 2 and can be confirmed.

For example, 16 characters may be registered in order as the number of registered characters of the external character without specifying the address of the external character memory.

In addition, when inputting the start and end, in addition to using two consecutive two-digit characters, use the "*" button as the start position and the "#" button as the end position, and use an appropriate button such as the Finish button to complete the input. It may also be expressed as It is also possible to specify that when input is completed without inputting anything, that line is finished. Alternatively, the manual input of "*#" may be used as a line feed command.

(Effects of the Invention) As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, there is no need to use a large display screen like a personal computer or word processor, and only the numeric keypad buttons and l-line display screen of a conventional facsimile machine are used. This has the effect of allowing sufficient registration of external characters.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a flowchart for explaining one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the operation shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of an operation section. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Key switch section, 2...LCD (liquid crystal) display section, 3...LCD control section, 4...CPU. Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Claims] A method for registering external characters in a facsimile machine, characterized in that the pattern to be registered is broken down into lines, and the pattern is input by inputting the start position and end position of consecutive dots in each line direction.