JPH04273757A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To inform an operator of the facsimile communication execution state of a mainbody device based on the operation of a cordless slave unit connected to the mainbody device over the wireless. CONSTITUTION:When a remote call is made from the cordless slave unit 2, the mainbody device 3 connected with the salve unit 2 with wireless calls an opposite facsimile equipment and starts facsimile communication after the response of the opposite facsimile equipment. A communication notice lamp flickering signal is transmitted to the cordless slave unit 2 and the communication notice lamp 46 is flickered/displayed. Thus, the operator of the cordless slave unit 2 recognizes that the mainbody device is in the middle of facsimile communication.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine that performs facsimile communication by operating a cordless handset housed therein.

0002

[Prior Art] Generally, this type of facsimile machine is
When a remote call is made from a cordless handset located far away from the main unit, the main unit connected wirelessly to the main unit calls the other device, and after confirming the answer from the other device, the cordless handset returns to the specified location. When a key is operated, the main device performs facsimile communication with the other device. When the facsimile communication with the other party's device is completed, the cordless handset is called and an audio signal is used to notify the end of the facsimile communication.

0003

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus notifies the cordless handset of the end of communication only after the facsimile communication ends. During this time, it is not possible to determine whether or not facsimile communication is in progress, resulting in problems such as facsimile communication being interrupted due to erroneous key operations.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, the facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes a detection means for detecting a calling operation of a cordless handset, and a detection means for detecting a call operation of a cordless handset based on a detection output of the detection means. The main unit includes a transmission control means for transmitting information indicating that facsimile communication is in progress to the machine.

[0005]

[Operation] When a call operation of the cordless handset is detected, information indicating that facsimile communication is in progress is transmitted to the cordless handset. As a result, a message to that effect is always displayed on the cordless handset during facsimile communication.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2 are block diagrams showing one embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention. Note that FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the built-in telephone 1, main unit 3, and wireless interface 4, and FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the cordless handset 2.

In FIG. 1, a built-in telephone 1 includes a handset 1-1, a telephone call circuit 1-2, a ringing tone generating circuit 1-3, and a hook switch HS1. Also,
The main unit 3 includes a control circuit 10 that performs various controls, an incoming signal detection circuit 11, a dial signal sending circuit 12, a hold tone sending circuit 13, a modem 14 that performs facsimile communication, a power supply circuit 15, an audio IC 16, a dial tone and an incoming call. Oscillation circuits 17 and 18 that generate signals, PB receiver circuit 19, CCD
C that includes the head part and the head part and controls these parts.
A CD head control section 20, a motor control section 21 that includes a motor and controls the motor, a sending document/recording paper sensor 22 that detects the presence or absence of a sending document and recording paper, various keys 23, a display circuit 24, and a relay 25. , 26, etc. The wireless interface 4 also includes a wireless transmitter/receiver 4-1, a telephone call circuit 4-2, a wireless CPU 4-3,
It is comprised of a dialer 4-4 that generates a dial signal, a 16Hz detection circuit 4-5 that detects an incoming call signal, and the like.

Next, in FIG. 2, the cordless handset 2 includes a CPU 30, a wireless transmitter/receiver 31, a mute circuit 32,
It is comprised of a transmitter/receiver section 33, an out-of-call detection circuit 34, an alarm sound generation circuit 35, an IDROM 36, a ringer generation section 37, various keys 40 to 45, lamps 46, 47, and the like.

In such a facsimile device, when transmitting a facsimile by making a call from the built-in telephone 1, first set the original to be sent and raise the handset, the hook switches HS1 and HS2 are closed, and the hook switch HS2 is closed. The control circuit 10 detects this, and the loop of the outside line L is closed, and the relay 25 is controlled to connect the outside line L and the extension telephone 1. continue,
When the dial key 23-4 is operated, the control circuit 10 detects this and causes the dial signal sending circuit 12 to send a dial signal corresponding to the operated dial number to the outside line L. Then, when the other party's device is called and the response from the other party's device is confirmed, the operation of the communication key 23-3 is detected and facsimile transmission is started. That is, the presence or absence of a transmission document is detected via the transmission document/recording paper sensor 22, and if there is a transmission document, the motor control section 21 controls the motor to capture the transmission document, and the CCD/head control section 20 receives the transmission document. On the other hand, image information is read from the transmission document, and this image information is transmitted to the other party's device via the outside line L using the modem 14.

[0010] Furthermore, when performing facsimile transmission by making a call from the cordless handset 2, the original to be sent is sent to the main unit 3.
When the outside line key 41 of the cordless handset 2 located at a distance from the main unit 3 is operated after being set to
1 to the wireless interface 4. On the other hand, the wireless CPU 4-3 in the wireless interface 4 is
When this operation signal is received via the wireless transmitter/receiver 4-1, the switch 4-7 is closed to close the call loop for the cordless handset 2. As a result, the control circuit 10 detects the closing of this call loop, closes the loop of the outside line L, and controls the relay 26 to connect the outside line L and the cordless handset 2. After that, cordless handset 2
When the dial key 40 of the CPU 30 is operated, this
is detected by the wireless transmitter/receiver 31, the wireless transmitter/receiver 4-
1, the wireless CPU 4- in the wireless interface 4
Sent to 3. When the wireless CPU 4-3 detects this dial operation signal, it drives the dialer 4-4 to send out a dial signal. Then, this dial signal is received by the control circuit 10 as a PB signal via an intermittent call loop for the cordless handset 2 or a PB receiver circuit 19, and as a result, a corresponding dial signal is transmitted from the dial signal sending circuit 12 to an outside line. Sent to L. In this way, when the other party's device is called and the response from the other party's device is confirmed, facsimile transmission is started by operating the FAX key 43.

Next, FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the control circuit 10 of the facsimile machine configured as described above. With the operations described above, the cordless handset 2 calls the other party's device via the outside line L, and after the other party's device responds, the operation of the FAX key 43 is detected and facsimile communication is started. In this case, in step 50, a communication notification lamp blinking signal is transmitted to the cordless handset 2 via the wireless CPU 4-3 in the wireless interface 4 and the wireless transmitting/receiving section 4-1. As a result, this communication notification lamp blinking signal is received by the CPU 30 via the wireless transmitting/receiving section 31 in the cordless handset 2, and the CPU 3
The communication notification lamp 46 blinks under the control of 0. Then, in step 52, it is determined whether the facsimile communication has ended, and if the end of the communication is detected and the determination is "Y",
In step 52, a communication notification lamp extinguishing signal is sent to the wireless CPU 4-3 in the wireless interface 4, the wireless transmitter/receiver 4-
1 and the wireless transmitting/receiving unit 31 in the cordless handset 2 to the CPU 30 to turn off the communication notification lamp 46. In this way, when facsimile communication is started, a communication notification lamp blinking signal is sent to the cordless handset 2 to cause the communication notification lamp 47 to blink, thereby informing that facsimile communication is being performed. It is.

0012

As explained above, according to the present invention, when a call operation of the cordless handset is detected, information indicating that facsimile communication is in progress is transmitted to the cordless handset. This effect is always displayed on the cordless handset, making it easy to identify whether or not facsimile communication is in progress.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

2 Cordless handset 3 Main device 4 Wireless interface 4-1 Wireless transmitter/receiver 4-3 Wireless CPU 10 Control circuit 14 Modem 20 CCD/head controller 21 Motor controller 22 Transmission original/recording paper detection sensor 24
Display circuit 30 CPU 31 Wireless transmitter/receiver 46 Communication notification lamp

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile device comprising a cordless handset and a main unit wirelessly connected, and performing facsimile communication based on a calling operation of the cordless handset, a detection means for detecting a calling operation of the cordless handset. and a transmission control means for transmitting information indicating that facsimile communication is in progress to the cordless handset based on the detection output of the detection means.