JPH04368062A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily confirm the interruption of transmission at a receiver side by sending a message indicating the interruption when preceding transmission is interrupted for urgent transmission. CONSTITUTION:When an interruption key of a keyboard 5 is operated for urgent transmission, a control circuit 1 scans keys of the keyboard 5 at all times, and a destination telephone number data stored in an input data area of a data memory 6 is transferred to a re-dial data area in the data memory 6 through the detection of the operation of the interruption key. Then a page management data used for a sender printing is stored in a page data area in the data memory 6. When the reading of an original during reading is not finished, the read data is sent and when the read of the original is finished, a message data representing the interruption of transmission is read from a message memory 7 and sent to a receiver side. Thus, a message for interruption is recorded on recording paper at the receiver side.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to facsimile machines.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in facsimile machines, even in the case of urgent transmission, if the transmission is already in progress, the user must wait until the transmission is completed. Therefore, if you are in a hurry, press the interrupt key to interrupt the transmission, and when you release the interrupt key after sending the urgent message, the facsimile automatically dials the number you were sending before the interruption and sends the rest of the document. A device is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 175278/1983.

0003

[Problem to be solved by the invention] With the technology described in the above publication, it is possible to send an urgent message without waiting, but when the transmission is interrupted, the receiving side does not know why the transmission has been interrupted and calls the sending side to interrupt the transmission. It was a hassle to have to check things.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and includes an interrupt key for instructing to interrupt transmission, a dial memory for storing dialed number data, and a dial signal generator. A circuit, a message memory that stores message data instructing interruption, and when the interruption key is detected, the message data in the message memory is read out and transmitted after reading the original, and when the interruption key is released, the dial memory is read. The control means is configured to perform dialing based on the data and control the transmission of the remaining originals to be resumed.

[0005]

[Operation] Since the present invention is configured as described above, when there is an interruption in transmission, a message indicating the interruption is recorded at the end of the last reception record on the receiving side, so that it is easy to detect the interruption on the receiving side. I understand.

[0006]

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be explained based on the drawings.

Reference numeral (1) denotes a control circuit for controlling the entire facsimile machine, which is composed of a microprocessor and controls each part according to a program in a program memory (2) in which a processing program is stored. Also, the control circuit (1
), the signal processing of the read transmission document data and the processing of the received signals are also performed. (3) is a reading unit that optically reads the transmitted original, converts the read black and white data into an electrical signal, and supplies it to the control circuit (1), which is composed of an original transport mechanism, a lens mechanism, an illumination mechanism, an image sensor, etc. has been done. (4) The control circuit (
The recording section drives a recording head such as a thermal head to perform printing under the control of 1), and is composed of recording paper, a recording paper transport mechanism, and the recording head. (5) is a keyboard consisting of a send key, a receive key, a mode key, an interrupt key, a numeric keypad, etc., and a control circuit (1) that captures key signals.
controls each section according to the program in the program memory (2) in response to key signals. (6) is a data memory in which dialed data is stored, and control circuit (1)
Data is read and written under the control of Reference numeral (7) denotes a message memory in which message data instructing interruption and message data instructing resumption of transmission are stored, and data is read and written under the control of control circuit (1). (8) is a dial signal generation circuit that generates a dial signal, and is connected to the line connection circuit (9). (10) is a modem circuit that modulates the signal transmitted to the telephone line (L) and demodulates the received signal, and is connected to the line connection circuit (9). (9) is the modem circuit (10)
This is a line connection circuit that performs switching between the telephone (11) and the telephone line (L), and is controlled by the control circuit (1), and has a ring signal detection circuit for incoming calls, etc.

Next, the operation of the present invention having such a configuration will be explained based on the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.

First, in a standby state in which the automatic reception mode is set using the keyboard (5), the control circuit (1)
constantly monitors the presence or absence of incoming calls, and when an incoming call is detected by the line connection circuit (9), the telephone line (L) is connected to the modem circuit (10), and the received signal is transmitted by the control circuit (1). By decoding it and supplying it to the recording section (4), reception recording is automatically performed.

On the other hand, when transmitting, after setting the original to be transmitted on the reading section (3) and inputting a telephone number using the numeric keys of the keyboard (5), the control circuit (1) reads the telephone number based on the input telephone number data. Dial signal generation circuit (8)
drive to dial the other party. The telephone number data input at this time is stored in the input data area of the data memory (6). After confirming the response signal from the other party's facsimile machine, when the send key on the keyboard (5) is operated, the control circuit (1) encodes the read original data under the control of the reading unit (3), and then sends the data to the modem. Circuit (1
0), and is sent to the telephone line (L) via the line connection circuit (9).

[0011] Next, an explanation will be given of the operation of interrupting and transmitting a plurality of documents when there is an urgent transmission while transmitting a plurality of originals.

[0012] First, use the keyboard (5) to send an urgent message.
), the control circuit (1) constantly scans the keyboard (5) for keys, and upon detecting the operation of the interrupt key, proceeds to step (S1) and stores data in the data memory (6).
Transfers the telephone number data of the other party stored in the input data area to the redial data area in the data memory (6), and transfers the page management data used for sender imprinting to the data memory (6). Store in page data area. Next, the process advances to step (S2) to detect whether or not the reading of the document being read has been completed. If the reading has not been completed, the process proceeds to step (S3) and the read data is transmitted, but once the reading of the original is completed,
Proceeding to step (S4), message data indicating that transmission will be interrupted is read from the message memory (7) and transmitted to the receiving side. Therefore, on the receiving side, a message indicating the interruption is recorded on the recording paper. After transmitting the message, the control circuit (1) transmits a line disconnection signal in step (S5), disconnects the line, and transitions to a standby state.

After removing the remaining documents, place the urgent document in the reading section (3), and enter the destination's telephone number using the numeric keys on the keyboard (5). A dial call is made and the destination facsimile machine's telephone number is dialed. Transmission can be performed by response. When the urgent document transmission is completed, the remaining documents that were previously transmitted and interrupted are set in the reading section (3), and the operation of the interrupt key is released. When the release of the interrupt key is detected, the control circuit (1) reads the dial data stored in the re-dial data area of the data memory (6) in step (S10) and drives the dial signal generation circuit (8). Make a dial call. When a response from the other party's facsimile machine is detected in step (S11), control signals are mutually exchanged in step (S12), and then, in step (S13), a message memory (7) indicates that communication is to be resumed. Read and send the message. Next, in step (S14), sender data is transmitted. At this time, the control circuit (1) is connected to the data memory (6
) The page number for restarting transmission is set based on the page number data that was saved in ) and sent as the source data. Upon completion of transmission of the source data, the control circuit (1) performs step (S
15) Start reading the original and send it. Then, when the transmission of all original documents is completed, the process proceeds to step (S17), the line is disconnected, and the system returns to the standby state. As a result, the reception of the remaining manuscripts after the transmission was interrupted is recorded, and a message indicating that transmission has resumed is recorded first, as well as a series of page management numbers of the source data.

[0014]

Effects of the Invention As described above, the facsimile apparatus of the present invention is configured to send a message indicating that the transmission has been interrupted when an operation that is already in progress is interrupted due to urgent transmission, so that the receiving side can easily interrupt the transmission. It is easy to see what has happened, and it has great practical effects.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Control circuit 3 Reading section 4 Recording Department 5 Keyboard 6 Data memory 7 Message memory

Claims (2)

[Claims] [Claim 1] An interrupt key that instructs to interrupt transmission, a memory that stores dialed number data, a dial signal generation circuit, a message memory that stores message data that instructs to interrupt transmission, and a device that detects the interrupt key. Control means for reading and transmitting message data from a message memory upon completion of reading the document being read, and then interrupting the transmission, and upon release of the interrupt key, dialing based on the dial number data in the memory and restarting transmission of the remaining documents. A facsimile machine characterized by comprising: 2. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein message data for instructing restart of transmission is stored in the message memory, and when an interrupt key is released, the control circuit reads and transmits the message data.