JPH0438064A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to find out whether the transmission of stored original information is completed or not by the operation of a PB telephone set at a place separated from the installation place of a facsimile equipment by informing the state of the stored original information by a tonal signal through a line based upon the instruction of a PB signal outputted from the line. CONSTITUTION:A PB signal (a) sent from an originating PB telephone set through a public telephone network is detected by a PB signal detecting part 1 through a line connection part and sent to a PB signal analyzing part 2. The analyzing part 2 sends a retrieving key word for original information to an original state retrieving part 3 as retrieving information. A tonal signal sending part 5 sends a tone signal l to the public telephone network through the line connection part based upon an abnormality informing signal (k) outputted from the analyzing part 2 and a transmission completion signal (g) and an untransmission signal (h) to inform the signal (l) to the originating telephone set. After ending the tone sending, tone sending completion is informed to the detecting part 3 by, a sending completion signal (j).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a facsimile machine that stores document information once and then transmits and receives it.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, with this type of facsimile machine, the operator's operation ends once the document to be sent has been stored, so a display screen is displayed on the device's operation section to check whether the stored document information has been processed normally. is provided so that the stored manuscript information can be displayed by inputting the necessary information.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional facsimile machine requires a large display section in the operation section and also requires a large number of input keys, making the operation complicated and the operation section expensive. Also, to know the status of the accumulated manuscripts,
Another drawback is that you have to go to the location where the equipment is installed.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes a means for once storing document information and then transmitting it, a means for analyzing the instruction contents of a preset PB signal input from a line, and a means for analyzing the stored document information according to the instruction contents. It has means for searching the state of information, and means for sending a tonal signal corresponding to the search result to the line.

〔Example〕

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

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

A PB signal detection unit l detects a PB signal a sent from a partner's PB telephone via a public telephone network via a line connection unit. The PB signal detection unit 1 extracts a digital signal determined by the combination of frequency components of the received PB double signal (dual tone signal), and extracts a digital signal from the detected P signal.
It is sent to PB double signal analysis 2 as a B flaw signal. In PB double signal analysis 2, the main focus is to check the legitimacy of the input PB double signal, so in advance, the input format from the other party's PB phone is defined, and the "*",
Enter "#" as a unique code at the beginning and end of the input information. The input information is defined as inputting a search keyword (for example, the telephone number of the other party) for the desired manuscript information.

In the PB double signal analysis 2, the format of the input detected PB flaw signal is checked according to the above definition, and if it is normal, the search keyword for the document information at that time is sent to the document condition search section 3 as search information. . If the format is abnormal, the abnormality notification signal k instructs the tonal signal sending section 5 to send out a negative tone signal.

Based on the search information C from the PB double signal analysis section 2, the document condition search section 3 instructs the document and management information storage information section 4 to search for the condition of the stored document using a search instruction e. The manuscript and management information storage unit 4 searches for the status of the manuscript according to the search instruction e and outputs it as a search result f. The document status search unit 3 obtains the search result f output from the document and management information storage unit by the search support e, and at the same time, by the search end instruction signal d, performs the PB double signal analysis 2.
is initialized to enable reception of the next PB multiple signal. At the same time, the document condition search section 3 analyzes the condition of the accumulated document based on the obtained search result f, and if the result of the analysis indicates that the document has already been transmitted, it sends a transmitted tone using the transmitted signal g. , if the tone has not yet been transmitted, the tonal signal transmitter 5 is notified of the transmission of the untransmitted tone using the untransmitted signal, and the completion of tone transmission is monitored using the transmission completion signal j, and the tone is transmitted using the transmission completion signal j. When notification of completion is received, the initial state shall be returned.

The tonal signal sending section 5 sends the tone signal j to the public telephone network via the line connection section in accordance with the abnormality notification signal from the PB double signal analysis 2 and the sent signal g and unsent signal from the document status search section 3. and sends a notification to the other party's phone. When the tone and sending are completed, the document state detecting section 3 is notified of the completion of tone sending using a sending completion signal j. At this time, since it is sufficient that the transmitted tone signal l can be identified by the operator, transmitted tones are continuously transmitted using a single frequency tone signal, and untransmitted or abnormality notification tones are transmitted intermittently for identification. Alternatively, the frequency may be changed, or the frequency may be transmitted continuously or intermittently.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention enables the operation of a PB telephone at a location far from the installation location of the device by notifying the state of accumulated document information via a line using a tonal signal in response to a PB double signal instruction from the line. This has the advantage that it is possible to know whether or not the transmission of the document information accumulated in the process has been completed.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. 1... PB signal detection section, 2... PB signal analysis section, 3
. . . manuscript status search unit, 4 . . . manuscript and management information storage unit, 5 . . . tonal signal transmission unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] means for once accumulating manuscript information and then transmitting it; means for analyzing the instruction content of a preset PB signal input from a line; and means for searching the state of the accumulated manuscript information according to the instruction content. and means for transmitting a tonal signal corresponding to the search result to the line.