JPH04207845A - Automatic electronic mail receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the misinput of the delivery conditions set to the transmitting destinations, the ZIP code of an object post office, etc., that are caused by the customers by deciding and cutting out an address entry column in a first entry column set at the upper side of an original out of the image data on the inputted original and displaying the address entry column at a screen display part of a mail receiver main body. CONSTITUTION:When an original form 100 is put into an original slit 2 of a mail receiver main body 1, an image sensor 500 searches for the position of the frame of an address entry column 111 which is enclosed in a square by a frame line in a first entry column 110. Then only the column 111 is cut out. The image data on the column 111 is fitted onto an address input screen and displayed at a screen display part 5 of the main body 1 as an address input screen.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] This invention automatically accepts manuscripts in response to requests from customers, such as letters of congratulations and condolences, and sends them by facsimile (hereinafter referred to as FAX) to the destination post office, etc. This invention relates to an automatic electronic mail acceptance device (referred to as "transmission").

[Prior Art] ゛Recently, new services that utilize FAX transmission have become popular in response to customer requests.

Among them, for example, at a post office, a manuscript such as a message of congratulations or condolence is handwritten by a customer on a designated manuscript paper, is faxed to the destination post office, and the message of congratulations or condolence is received at the destination post office. Specially designed paper (cardboard) selected by the customer according to the fax content, such as
An electronic mail service called "Lutats" is attracting attention, in which the paper is copied into a specially designed envelope and then delivered.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above-mentioned conventional electronic mail delivery service, in particular, at the receiving post office, a post office staff member receives and collects the manuscript paper requested by the customer at the counter. ,
Currently, office staff determines the purpose of the document depending on the content of the document, and then sends the document by fax to the destination post office.

Furthermore, fees are paid manually depending on the number of manuscripts to be sent, either at the request of the station staff or at the discretion of the customer, which makes the transmission procedure cumbersome, and furthermore, the burden on staff at the customer's request is also high. There was a big problem.

[Object of the Invention] An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic electronic mail acceptance device that allows a customer to easily perform a sending procedure by FAX transmission.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a device main body having a document insertion slot and a screen display unit, and a document device for importing a document inserted into the document insertion port of the device main body. An electronic mail automatic receiving device comprising a second capturing means and a document transmitting means for facsimile transmission of the document captured by the second capturing device, wherein the image data of the document captured by the second capturing device is used to detect the upper part of the document. means for determining the address entry field in the first entry field of the document and cutting out the frame, and displaying the address entry field in the first entry field of the original from which the frame has been cut out on a screen display section of the apparatus main body. That is.

[Operations] In other words, the present invention captures a document inserted into the document insertion slot of the main body of the device, and determines the destination entry field in the first entry field on the upper side of the document from the image data of the imported document. Since the device has a means for cutting out the frame and a destination entry field in the first entry field of the original with the frame cut out, it is displayed on the screen display section of the main body of the device, so there is no need to install a character recognition device. This prevents incorrect input by the customer when inputting the delivery conditions to the destination, the postal code of the destination post office, etc.

[Example] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to an illustrated example.

FIG. 2 shows the overall appearance of the electronic mail automatic acceptance device according to the present invention, and numeral 1 in the figure is the main body of the device.

゛This device main body 1 is provided with a document insertion slot 2 arranged at the front of the upper part, a charge slot consisting of a coin slot 3 arranged on the front side of the upper surface on one side, and a banknote slot 4 arranged on one side of the front surface. A screen display section 5 as a screen display means made of a CRT is formed on the upper surface thereof, and this screen display section 5 is equipped with a touch panel 5a. The touch panel 5a is of a capacitive type, an infrared type, or an electromagnetic induction type, and all operations by the customer are performed by touching the screen.

In addition, in the figure, 6 is a charge return button located near the coin slot 3 of the device main body 1, and 7 is also the coin slot 3.
8 is a charge return slot located below the bill slot 4; 9 is a slot for issuing payment confirmation documents such as receipts located below the manuscript slot 2; .

FIG. 3 shows an automatic acceptance unit 1 that constitutes an automatic electronic mail acceptance system built into the device main body 1.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of 0.

This automatic underwriting device unit 10 is equipped with a control means consisting of a control device 20 such as a personal computer (hereinafter abbreviated as a personal computer), and the CRT screen display section 5 is connected to this control device 20. The touch panel 5a of the screen display section 5 is connected to the boat 21, which is the control section.

Further, the control device 20 includes a speech circuit 31
FAX transmitting unit 3 as a FAX transmitting means incorporating
0 and a hard disk 40 as a data storage means for operating all software, and this hard disk 40 contains software 41, a database 42, and stored data 43.

The software 41 is a program itself, and the database 42 contains the post office names and postal codes of about 5,500 post offices nationwide, as well as the FAX number of the post office corresponding to the postal code.

The stored data 43 records the original data from the customer as it is, and is called up when retransmission is required. Normally, when a signal is received that has arrived at the destination layer (destination station), the station staff operates the data. It is now discarded by

In this case, the original data from the customer recorded in the storage data 43 is automatically destroyed after a certain period of time.

Further, the port 21 includes a FAX document reading section 50 which is a document importing means, a money processing section 60 which is an input fee determining means, and a document issuing section 70 which is a document issuing means.
are connected and controlled respectively.

As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the FAX document reading section 50 includes an inlet paper sensor 51 provided in the document insertion port 2 of the apparatus main body 1, and an intake port provided downstream of the inlet paper sensor 51. a paper sensor 52; a platen roller 53 that winds up the manuscript paper 100 inserted from the manuscript insertion opening 2;
A motor 54 that rotates the platen roller S3 in forward and reverse directions, and a document paper 10 wound on the platen roller 53.
It is composed of a contact type image sensor 500 that reads a 0 original.

That is, when the document paper 100 passes the entrance paper sensor 51, the motor 54 is started and the platen roller 53 is activated.
rotates.

This rotation of the platen roller 53 causes the document paper 100 to
When the document paper 100 is taken in, the state of the document paper 100 being taken in is detected by the intake port paper sensor 52.

Then, the final end of the document paper 100 is located at the entrance paper sensor 5.
1, the rotation of the motor 54 is stopped, the winding is temporarily stopped while the leading edge of the document paper 100 is held in the platen roller 53, and the document is returned by operating the document return button 7. It waits until there is an instruction to return the document, insert the second sheet of manuscript paper 100, or complete the document capture.

At this time, the information written in part of the manuscript on the manuscript paper 100 that has passed through the image sensor 500 is read as is and stored in the storage data 43 of the hard disk 40, and is temporarily saved. There is.

In this state, when the second sheet of manuscript paper 100 is inserted and its leading edge passes the entrance paper sensor 51, the platen roller 53 is rotated by restarting the motor 54.
The first sheet of manuscript paper 100 inserted earlier is taken in, and while the written contents of the remaining manuscripts are read by the image sensor 500, the first sheet of manuscript paper 100 is stored in a storage section (not shown) in the main body 1 of the apparatus. The second and subsequent manuscript sheets 100 are taken in in the same manner.

In addition, if there is a reason for returning the manuscript paper 100 in this case,
For example, the motor 54 rotates in the reverse direction, and the manuscript paper 100 is returned to the manuscript insertion slot 2 upstream of the entrance paper sensor 51.

By the way, the contact image sensor 500 includes a light emitting section (LED ARRAY) 501 and a light receiving section (ROD ARRAY) 501.
LENS ARRAY) 502 constitutes a scanner head, and the manuscript paper 10 wound on the platen roller 53
The reflected light emitted from the light emitting unit 501 onto the light receiving unit 50
2 receives light, and charges are accumulated in a sensor unit (SENSOR) 503.

As shown in FIG. 6, charge accumulation in the sensor unit (SENSOR) 503 (7) is performed by an analog switch 504 and a shift register (SIFT REGI-STER) 5.
05 and then analog switch (ANALOG 5W-ITCHES) 504
And by providing control signals of a pulse signal (SI) and a clock signal (CLK) to the shift register 505,
The optical output signal (S I
G) is input to the comparator 507 to obtain a comparison voltage value V. The system compares and adjusts the readout data and outputs the read data as an analog quantity from the black level to the white level.

Here, when extracting the reading data as black and white binary data, as shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, if the standard for the reading time (charge accumulation time) of the l-line of the manuscript paper is set to 5m5ec, the white level will be The black level is around OV, and the comparison voltage value V0 of the comparator 507 is around 0~
By setting between 2 and 3, black and white binary data can be obtained.

Furthermore, by varying the comparison voltage value V of the comparator 507, it is also possible to change the black and white binary determination point.

That is, when the charge accumulation time is 5 m5 ec, the white level output voltage is approximately 2 cm, but the output voltage changes by changing this charge accumulation time.

Therefore, by changing the charge accumulation time,
Comparison voltage value of comparator 507~. This makes it possible to vary the decision point for black and white binary values while keeping the value constant.

With this, by changing the reading time in software, it is possible to easily fine-tune the black and white classification values without changing the hardware.

On the other hand, in such a contact type image sensor 500, monochromatic image data is converted into 8-bit data according to the data read timing using the pulse signal (Sr) and clock signal (CLK) shown in FIG. When, l
The amount of line data is 172 in the A4 version.
There are 8 dots (216 bytes at 8 dots/byte), the data read cycle for one line is 5 m5ec, and the CLK frequency is 500 KHz.

In other words, the time to read the l-line data is
The charge accumulation time of the sensor unit 503 is based on 5 m5 ec, but the time to read 1728 pieces of data with a 500 KHz CLK is 11500 x 1728 = 3.4 56 m5 ec, which is actually 3.456 m5 ec. Data can be read, and as shown in FIG. 11, data can be compressed in the remaining time.

In this way, by compressing the captured image data using the charge accumulation time for each line, it is possible to omit the time required for compression, especially when the image data is all white. , the maximum compression amount of l line is 216
Byte can be compressed to 2 bytes (1/180).

As a result, by setting the most frequently occurring data for one line to be compressed using the charge accumulation time, compression of I/3 to 1/4 is possible, speeding up data read operations. can be definitely achieved.

Further, as described above, the read signal (S I G) is output as an analog quantity from the black level to the white level, and the white level voltage at this time is 2v1, and the black level voltage is Ov.

Moreover, since the data read period (charge accumulation time) of one line is the period of the pulse signal (SI), when the charge accumulation time changes, the obtained output voltage also changes.

However, in the image sensor 500 described above,
Dirt on the LED of the light emitting unit 501 or the lens of the light receiving unit 502 that constitutes the scanner head, or the LED of the light emitting unit 501
Due to fluctuations in the current flowing through D, the charge accumulation time may be 5
Even if it is set to m5eC, it may not be possible to obtain an output voltage of 2V at the white level.

Therefore, in the present invention, automatic correction is made possible so that the white level always obtains an output voltage of 2.

The configuration of such an automatic correction circuit is as shown in FIG.
Waveform output signal (SIG) from 0 scanner head
is input to the A/D converter 508 and converted into digital data.

The CPU 509 compares and processes this digital data with 2V, and the pulse signal generator 510 generates a pulse signal (
SI) and sends this pulse signal to the image sensor 5.
It is designed to be inserted into 00.

At this time, if the data value is less than 2V, the charge accumulation time (SI period) is extended, and conversely, if it exceeds 2V, the charge accumulation time is shortened.

``In this way, by varying the period of SI, the white level output voltage is adjusted to 2V, and when the output voltage reaches 2V, a blank sheet for calibration is discharged.

In this case, since the first line of the manuscript paper 100 is always blank, the readout time (charge accumulation time) of one line is automatically adjusted so that the output waveform at this time is 2■. The concentration data read voltage is always kept constant.

Another method for calibrating the scanner head is to form a black and white band on the top edge of the document paper 100, so that the scanner head detects the first black area, and then detects the next white band. The read voltage of the section is a constant value (2
(2) It is also possible to perform this by adjusting the width of the pulse signal (SI) so that the width of the pulse signal (SI) becomes as follows.

As a result, when calibrating the scanner head, it is possible to calibrate the original paper every time just before reading the original, and unlike before, there is no need to periodically insert paper specifically for proofreading. Quality can be kept constant.

On the other hand, the money processing section 60 includes a coin sorting machine 61 and a banknote sorting machine 62.
It also determines the amount of the fee input from the fee input slot of the banknote input slot 4 and performs a monetary settlement process in which change can be returned to the fee return slot 8 as necessary. In the future, it will also be possible to use prepaid cards.

Further, the document issuing section 70 is composed of a printer 71 and a printer control circuit 72, and sends a payment confirmation document such as a receipt for confirming the payment of - times to the issuing port 9 of the device main body 1.
It has been published for many years and also has the function of a journal.

In addition, 80 in the figure is a power supply device consisting of a DC power supply. This power supply device 80 is connected to a power source via an uninterruptible device 81.

Next, the electronic mail automatic acceptance system according to the present invention,
The explanation will be based on the drawings shown in FIG. 13 and below.

FIG. 13 shows a designated manuscript paper 100 of a predetermined size, for example, A4 or A5, FIG. 14 shows the initial screen state of the screen display section 5 of the device main body 1, and FIG. 15 shows the device main body 1. FIGS. 16(A) and 16(B) are flowcharts showing the flow of operations on the terminal side of the apparatus body 1. FIGS.

That is, as shown in FIG. 13, the manuscript paper 100 has a postal code, postal code, etc. in an address entry field 111 and a sender entry field 112, each surrounded by a rectangular frame line in the upper part 100A.
Customer entry fields are provided, including a first entry field 110 in which an address, name, etc. are written, and a second entry field 120 in which contents such as desired text and designs are written in the lower part 100B. In this second entry field 120, a watermark pattern such as a picture is formed as necessary, and unlike the first entry field 110,
It is divided into upper and lower parts by a partition line a.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 14, on the screen display section 5 of the device main body 1, an explanatory text (not shown) prompting the customer's order of operations is displayed on the screen in the initial state, such as "Stop", "Proceed", etc. A switch is provided.

Then, the customer entry column 110 of such a manuscript form 100
．． 120, the customer writes in advance the destination, sender's postal code, address/name, desired text, design, etc. by handwriting, etc., and then transfers this manuscript paper 100 to the manuscript in the main body 1 of the device installed at a post office, etc. Insert into insertion slot 2.

First, as shown in Fig. 15, by operation on the customer side,
When the first sheet of manuscript paper 100 is inserted into the main body 1 of the apparatus, the contents of the manuscript are scanned by the image scanner of the FAX manuscript reading section 50 on the terminal side, as shown in FIGS. 16(A) and (B). , and determines whether the address has been entered in the destination entry field 111 written in the first entry field 110 of the manuscript paper 100.

In order to determine whether or not the address entry column 111 of the manuscript paper 100 has been left blank, when the manuscript paper 100 is imported, the address entry column 111 is searched and the amount of data therein is visually determined. It will be done.

At this time, if the address entry field 111 of the manuscript paper 100 is blank and has not been filled in, the import is canceled and the manuscript paper 100 is
will be returned.

If it is determined that an address has been entered in the destination entry field 111 of the manuscript paper 100, the length of the manuscript paper 100 is determined.

The length of the manuscript paper 100 is determined by determining whether the number of lines scanned by the image scanner on the manuscript paper 100 is 2000 lines or more, as shown in FIG.

In other words, if the plate size is A4, for example, 1 mm.
If you take data with the number of lines of 8 dots, it is 2376.
If the number of lines on the manuscript paper 100 is 2000 lines or more, it is determined to be A4 size.
If it is less than 2000 lines, use 1 manuscript paper as A5 size.
The size of 00 is determined.

When the size of the manuscript paper 100 is determined in this way, the destination entry field 111 of the first entry field 110 is determined from the image data of the imported manuscript, and as shown in FIG. The first entry field 110 of the manuscript paper 100 and a part of the manuscript in the second entry field 120 are displayed on the first screen display section 5.

That is, as shown in FIG. 4, when the document sheet 100 is taken in from the document insertion slot 2 of the apparatus main body 1, the FAX document reading section 50 on the terminal device side, which constitutes the document sheet importing means, first reads the following information. The image sensor 500 searches for the position of the frame of the destination entry field 111 surrounded by a square in the first entry field 110.

In other words, the search for the position of this frame is as shown in Figure 1.
Find all the data of the imported original, find only the position of the destination frame, determine whether the frame is at the top, bottom, right, or left, and then All data is sorted to the regular position, and from the data that has been sorted to the regular position, the address entry column 111
Cut out only.

At this time, on the terminal side, after importing the manuscript paper 100, there are various operations such as inputting various conditions, but when the destination address input screen is reached after these operations, the input screen that was cut earlier is displayed. The image data of the destination entry column 111 is inserted and displayed on the screen display section 5 of the apparatus main body 1 as an address input screen.

Then, in this way, the address entry field 1 of the first entry field 110 is
By rearranging the data in 11, even if the manuscript paper 100 is inserted upside down, for example, it is possible to rearrange it to the normal state on the terminal side without having to reinsert the manuscript paper 100. Become.

In addition, by displaying the destination entry field 111 of the first entry field 110 and a part of the original, it is possible to confirm the insertion direction of the original (diagonal insertion, reverse insertion, horizontal insertion, etc.) and the transmission content. , in the case of a failure of the image sensor 500, the screen becomes completely black because it cannot be read.
This makes it easy to confirm the imported document data.

Therefore, except for the blank pages of the manuscript paper 100, the device main body l
Even if the document sheet 1oO is inserted into the document insertion slot 2 with the front and rear directions reversed, the document sheet 1oO can be easily taken in.

Note that, as a method for searching for the destination entry field 111 of the first entry field 110 in such a manuscript paper 100, in addition to determining the frame position of the destination entry field 111 described above, for example, the top edge of the manuscript paper 100 is marked in black. It is also possible to perform rearrangement by determining the top, bottom, right, left, and right positions of this black solid position.

Furthermore, if the emergency return button 7 is pressed by the customer at this time, the import is stopped and the manuscript paper 100 is immediately returned.

In this way, the capture of the first sheet of manuscript paper 100 is completed.

Next, the second sheet of manuscript paper 100 is inserted by the customer's operation.
When a document is inserted from the document insertion slot 2 of the apparatus main body 1, the position for blank page determination is changed.

゛This change in the position of the blank page determination is such that the address, etc. has already been entered in the first entry field 110 of the first manuscript paper 100, and the address etc. has already been entered in the first entry field 110 of the second and subsequent manuscript papers 100. Since there is no need to enter information such as the following, the second entry field 120 is changed so that it is judged as a blank page.

As a result, even if the address etc. are not entered in the first entry field 110 of the second and subsequent manuscript sheets 100, if the desired text, design, etc. are entered in the second entry field 120. , it is imported as an official manuscript, and if it is determined to be blank without that entry, it will be automatically returned.

At this time, if the customer presses the "stop" switch by touching the screen, the second and subsequent sheets of manuscript paper 10
0 final manuscript paper is to be returned.

In this way, when the second and subsequent sheets of manuscript paper 100 are taken in, the length of the manuscript paper 100 is determined as described above, and the second and subsequent sheets of manuscript paper 100 are It is determined whether the length is the same as that of the 1st sheet of original paper 100 and the plate size.

At this time, if the second and subsequent manuscript sheets 100 have different plate sizes from the first manuscript sheet 100, even if the manuscript is written in the second entry field 120 of the second and subsequent manuscript sheets 100. It will be returned automatically.

Such changes in the blank page determination positions for the first and second and subsequent manuscript sheets are performed according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 18.

In this way, when it is determined that the second and subsequent manuscript sheets 100 are of the same size as the first manuscript sheet 100, the previous manuscript sheet 100 that has already been taken in can be stored.

This kind of document paper storage is carried out in F as shown in Figure 4.
In the AX document reading section 50, the first sheet of document paper 100, which is the previous document, is stuck on the platen roller 53 after a part of its leading edge is read by the image sensor 500, and the second sheet of paper 100 is stuck on the platen roller 53. When the first manuscript paper 100 is inserted, the first manuscript paper 100 is stored.

By storing the manuscript paper in this way, the previous manuscript 1
The data of the 1st sheet of manuscript paper 100 is saved and the number of sheets is counted.

The operations on the customer's side so far have been to "Stop" by touching the screen or "
Insert the second and subsequent sheets of manuscript paper using the "Proceed" operation.
When "Stop" is pressed, the final document sheet that is caught in the platen roller 53 is returned.

If you press "Proceed", it is assumed that all the manuscript paper has been inserted, and the screen display section 5 of the device main body 1 will display whether the content of the manuscript is a celebration, a condolence, or an ordinary one. The selected usage, ie the delivery terms, will be displayed.

Such selection of the intended use of the manuscript content is made by the customer, and in particular, for manuscripts with congratulatory content, a specially designed mount is selected.

Additionally, if the manuscript is for a celebration or condolence, the designation of the delivery date will be displayed on the screen display section 5 of the main body 1 of the device, allowing the designation of the delivery date; otherwise, the screen will change to the input screen for the recipient's postal code. .

As shown in FIG. 19, when the input screen for the destination postal code is displayed on the screen display section 5 of the apparatus main body 1, at the same time, the destination is entered in the first entry field 110 of the manuscript paper 100 imported as the first sheet. Field 111 is cut out and this address entry field 1
11 is displayed on the screen display unit 5, thereby making it possible to prevent erroneous input without installing a character recognition device.

Next, when the input of the destination postal code is completed, the screen display section 5 displays the total amount of charges based on delivery conditions such as the number of sheets to be inserted and the selection of mounts in the congratulatory content.

When the customer inserts coins or banknotes into the coin slot 3 or banknote slot 4 of the main body l of the device according to the total amount of money displayed on the screen display section 5, as shown in FIG. The coin sorter 61 or bill sorter 62 of the processing section 60 performs payment of fees such as dispensing change.

゛When the fee settlement is completed, the document issuing unit 70 creates a payment confirmation such as a receipt that confirms the payment of a single fee, and outputs this confirmation to the issuance port 9 of the device main body 1. When the customer receives the confirmation, all operations on the customer's side are completed and the payment is made.

On the other hand, on the terminal side, once the confirmation form has been created and ejected, based on the entered postal code of the destination, the terminal sends a message to the fax number of the fax receiving means of the destination post office.
The AX transmission unit 30 automatically makes a call through the telephone line and FAs the manuscript to the destination post office in charge of delivery according to the delivery conditions.
Send X.

By the way, this FAX transmitter 30 is controlled by a personal computer to automatically make a call, and this automatic call refers to the reception of a FAX by the destination layer (destination station) corresponding to the destination. This means searching for the corresponding post office from the database 42 of the hard disk 40 and automatically making a call to that fax number.

゛At this time, if the other party's station is out of communication, for example, it will retry (re-call) twice, that is, the first time will automatically make three consecutive calls, and if the call arrives within the range, it will be converted to a fax transmission. and is ready to start sending.

If the call does not arrive within the range of three consecutive automatic calls, the re-call time is set based on the current time, and the second automatic call is made after a certain period of time as shown in Figure 21. , retransmit.

In this case, retransmission will be performed at different times depending on the time of day, such as 2 hours later if transmission is interrupted in the morning, 30 minutes after 3:00 pm, and 20 minutes after 3:00 pm. . As a result, retransmission can be smoothly performed during the post office window service hours.

Furthermore, if the second automatic call is not answered, as shown in FIG.
An automatic call is made to the FAX number of another FAX receiving means attached to the other station B, or a FAX receiving means attached to another station close to the other station B, and the transmission is made.

In this way, other FAX receiving means, such as the originating station's FA
When a document is sent to the X-receiving means, a staff member at the originating station visually checks it and contacts the office telephone of the destination to inform the staff at the other party of the cause of the inability to receive the fax.
For example, it notifies the user of a malfunction or paper outage in the FAX receiving means itself, prompts maintenance, and also informs the user that the facsimile will be retransmitted after a certain amount of time has elapsed. This makes it possible to prevent incomplete transmission due to unmanned automatic underwriting terminal equipment, and allows the other station to complete transmission quickly and reliably.

Then, when the FAX receiving means on the receiving side is in place and normal transmission is possible, the transmission is completed by manual retransmission by the staff at the transmitting station.

Further, even if the destination FAX receiving means is unable to receive the fax due to a paper cut or the like during transmission by automatic calling, the fax is sent to another fax receiving means in the same way.

°In addition, in the above embodiment, if the transmission of a document is interrupted, an employee of the transmitting station A visually confirms that the transmitter station B is the transmission destination.
The staff of the other station is contacted by the office telephone, but other means of communication include the F of the other station, as shown in Figure 20.
A call is automatically made to the AX number, a voice synthesized sound is sent by the speech circuit 31 built into the FAX transmitter 3o, and a warning is sent to the staff at the other station B using the voice synthesized sound to prevent failure of the FAX receiving means, paper cut, etc. It may also be possible to encourage maintenance by.

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, a document inserted into the document insertion slot of the apparatus main body is captured, and the first image on the upper side of the document is detected from the image data of the captured document. The present invention has a means for determining the address entry field in the entry field and cutting out the frame, and a means for displaying the address entry field in the first entry field of the original from which the frame has been cut out on the screen display section of the main body of the apparatus. , it is possible to prevent the customer from erroneously inputting the delivery conditions to the destination, the postal code of the destination post office, etc., without installing a character recognition device.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

, Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the cutout state of the destination address column of a document in the electronic mail automatic acceptance device according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is an external view of the automatic acceptance device, and Fig. 3 is the electronic mail according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing the document capture mechanism, FIG. 5 is a schematic explanatory diagram showing the image sensor reading means of the document capture mechanism, and FIG. A block diagram of the image sensor; FIGS. 7 to 9 are explanatory diagrams showing black and white determination means when reading data by the image sensor;
Figure 0 and Figure 11 are data read timing charts by the image sensor, Figure 12 is a block diagram showing the calibration state of the scanner head of the image sensor, Figure 13 is an explanatory diagram of manuscript paper, and Figure 14 is the initial screen display state. Figure 15 is a flowchart showing the flow of operations on the customer side, Figures 16 (A) and (B) are flowcharts showing the flow of operations on the terminal side, and Figure 17 is the screen when importing a document. An explanatory diagram showing the display state. Fig. 18 is a flowchart showing the reading state of the second and subsequent documents. Fig. 19 is an explanatory diagram showing the screen display state when entering the postal code after importing the original. Fig. 20 is the fee. A flowchart showing the FAX transmission status after input/clearance, Figure 21 is a block diagram of the FAX transmission status, and Figure 22 is the FAX transmission status.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a transmission and reception state when AX transmission is interrupted. 1. Apparatus body, 2. Document insertion slot, 5. Screen display section, 10. Automatic underwriting device unit, 20. Control means, 30. FAX transmission means, 40. ...Data storage means, 50.. Manuscript reading means, 100.. Manuscript paper, 110.. First entry field, 111.. Address entry field. Figure 3 Pier Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Seconds Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Time for one line Figure 13 × 〇〇c' ψ Figure 15 Customer side Figure 18 Figure 20

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A device main body having a document insertion slot and a screen display section; a document capture device that captures the document inserted into the document insertion port of the device main body; and a document transmission device that sends the document captured by the capture device by facsimile. An automatic electronic mail acceptance device comprising: means for determining an address entry field in a first entry field on the upper side of a document from the image data of the document captured by the capture means and cutting out the frame; An automatic electronic mail acceptance device characterized by comprising means for displaying the address entry field in the first entry field of the frame-cut manuscript on a screen display section of the device main body.