JPH04120971A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow an operator to estimate remaining time required for facsimile communication by allowing a reception side receiving the notice of number of originals to be sent to display the number of sheets of the original and the received and recorded sheet number. CONSTITUTION:Control information 23a inputted from a communication channel is outputted to an extraction section 7 via a network control section 6, the section 7 recognizes the number of sent original sheets from a transmission side noticed in terms of control information 23a as a transmission reception page number 24 and informs it to a reception control section 9. On the other hand, a page number counting section 8 receives a picture signal 25 and counts it as a page number 26 and informs the result to the reception control section 9. The reception control section recognizing the total reception page number 24 controls a display control section 10 during the reception and displays the total reception page number 24 and the received page number 26 on a display section 11. Thus, the transmission original sheet number is recognized by the reception side, and since the operator estimates the remaining time required for facsimile communication, it is not required for the operator to confirm the end of facsimile communication repeatedly.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile device, and more particularly to a facsimile device that stores a transmission document in a memory and then transmits the document.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional facsimile machines display the counted number of sent originals and the number of sent originals when storing image data of sent originals in memory, and also display only the number of received pages that have been recorded during reception. It was a method.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus uses a monitoring system that displays only the number of received pages that have been received and recorded, so the number of transmitted originals can be grasped on the receiving side, and the remaining time required for facsimile communication cannot be predicted. Therefore, there is a drawback that the operator on the receiving side has to confirm the completion of facsimile communication many times.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes a means for counting the number of transmitted originals when storing image data of the transmitted originals in a memory, and transmitting the number of transmitted originals to a receiving side as control information, and a means for counting the number of transmitted originals when storing image data of the transmitted originals in a memory, and receiving the control information from a communication line. means for extracting the number of transmitted original sheets included in the image data, means for counting the number of received recording sheets on which the received image data is printed, and means for displaying and outputting the number of transmitted original sheets and the number of received sheets.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention.

Data 21 obtained by reading the transmission document by the reading section 1 is stored in the memory section 2. At this time, the memory management unit 3 counts the number of originals to be transmitted, and calculates the number of transmitted originals 22 to the transmission control unit 4.
Notify. Transmission control unit 4 recognizes the number of transmitted originals 22
controls the transmitter 5 and uses the control information 23 to set the number of originals to be transmitted 22.
The data is sent to the communication line via the network control unit 6 as a.

Control information 23a input from the communication line is output to the extraction section 7 via the network control section 6. The extraction unit 7 extracts the control information 23
The number of originals transmitted from the transmitting side notified by a is recognized as the number of transmitted/received pages 24, and is notified to the reception control section 9.

On the other hand, after the page number counting unit 8 receives the image signal 25,
It is counted as page number 26 and notified to reception control section 9. The reception control unit 9, which has recognized the total number of received pages 24, controls the display control unit 10 to display the total number of received pages 24 and the number of received pages 26 on the display unit 11 during reception.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention makes it possible to estimate the remaining time required for facsimile communication by outputting and displaying the number of originals and the number of received and recorded sheets on the receiving side, which is notified of the number of originals to be sent. This has the effect that the operator on the receiving side does not have to repeatedly confirm the completion of facsimile communication.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Reading part, 2... Memory part, 3... Memory management part, 4... Transmission control part, 5... Transmission part, 6...
Network control unit, 7... Extraction unit, 8... Page number counting unit, 9... Reception control unit, 10... Display control unit, 11.
...Display section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] means for counting the number of transmitted originals when storing the image data of the transmitted originals in a memory and transmitting the number of transmitted originals to a receiving side as control information; and means for counting the number of transmitted originals included in the control information received from a communication line. A facsimile apparatus comprising: extracting means; means for counting the number of received recording sheets on which the received image data is printed; and means for displaying and outputting the number of transmitted original sheets and the number of received sheets.