JPH0496469A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To inform the information of respective characters excepting for an original picture in a language suitable for the reception side by designating the prescribed language according to the process signal of a transmission control process by the reception side and transmitting the character information in the designated language by the transmission side. CONSTITUTION:A scanner 1 reads the original picture, and an encoder/decoder part 3 executes the data compression of the picture information to be transmitted by encoding and decodes the received picture information on the other hand so as to reproduce the source picture information. A picture memory 4 temporarily stores the picture information, and a MODEM 5 transmits the picture information after modulation/demodulation and transmits various process signals for transmission control. A system memory 8 stores various registration information and a system control part 9 controls these respective parts. Then, the language to be designated from a communicating party side is discriminated by the process signal of the transmission control process, and various character information is transmitted in the discriminated language.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine having a function of transmitting various kinds of character information to a destination in addition to a document image.

[Prior Art] When transmitting and receiving a document image, character information such as a user name registered in advance is exchanged in addition to the document image, and the received character information is displayed on a display or registered A well-known function is to add the above-mentioned character information to a document image, transmit it, and record it together with the document image on the receiving side.

Normally, the information displayed on the above display is RTI (Rem
The information added to the original image is referred to as TTI (Terminal Identifier) information.
ransmitter term dent
jficr) information.

Conventionally, this information has been registered in a certain language using alphaben 1-kana or kanji.

On the other hand, a known function of facsimile machines is a relay transmission function that receives a document image along with a forwarding destination phone number, temporarily stores the information and image, and then calls the forwarding destination phone number and transmits the document image. be. Furthermore, a function is also known that, after executing this relay transmission, reports the transmission result to the relay transmission request source.

With this reporting function, information such as the success or failure of relay transmission for each transfer destination, and the date and time of successful transmission, etc., was sent as a revo-1 document.

Conventionally, this revolution document has displayed each content in a fixed language.

On the contrary, in recent years, opportunities for facsimile communication not only within Japan but also overseas have increased.

For this reason, if the RTI information, TT'I information, and JZ record report are transmitted in one specific language, such as Japanese or English, as in the past, the receiving side Because the language was not understood, the information sent was sometimes wasted.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, conventionally, there has been a problem that it is not possible to notify each character information other than the original image in a language suitable for the receiving side.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and provide a facsimile device that can notify each character information other than a document image in a language suitable for the receiving side.

[Means for Solving the Problems] For the second reason, in the first invention of the present application, the receiving side specifies a desired language by a procedure signal of a transmission control procedure, and the transmitting side sends characters in the specified language. I am trying to send information.

Further, in the second aspect of the invention, when a call is made, a language suitable for the region of the destination indicated by the telephone number is determined, and text information is transmitted in that language.

Further, in the third invention, the correspondence between each destination phone number and a suitable language is stored in advance, and when a call is made to the stored destination phone number, text information is sent in the corresponding language. That's what I do.

[Operations] In the first invention, by specifying a suitable language for the receiving side to the transmitting side, each piece of information can be received in that language.

Further, in the second and third inventions, the receiving side can receive each piece of information in a suitable language without specifying to the sending side as in -1-.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a facsimile machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, scanner 1 reads the original image.
The plotter 2 records images on recording paper. The encoding/decoding unit 3 compresses image information to be transmitted by encoding, and decodes received image information to reproduce the original image information.

The image memory 4 is for storing image information -IS.

The modem 5 modulates and transmits image information, and also transmits various procedure signals for transmission control. The network control device 6 is connected to a telephone line and performs predetermined line control when making and receiving calls.

The operation display section 7 is used to display the operating status of the device and for the operator to perform various operations.

The system memory 8 stores various types of registration information. The system control section 9 is a microcomputer that controls each section mentioned above. The signal bus 10 is a signal line through which each of the above-mentioned sections exchanges data with the various control sections.

When using the facsimile machine of this embodiment with the above configuration, the operator first registers the RT information and TTI information using a known technique.

In other words, for RT Tffj information and TTI information, company names, names, etc. are arbitrarily registered, but in this embodiment, as shown in Figure 2, each information is registered in 11 languages such as Japanese, English, Japanese, Japanese, etc. Register in various languages. In this case, Japanese is registered in kana characters, kanji, etc., and English and German are registered in alphabetical characters.

Each piece of information registered in this way is stored and stored in the system memory 8.

In addition, when transmitting RTI information or TTI information, the operator may send
Set one language as the standard language.

Furthermore, the desired language for receiving RTI information and 1-go information from the other party is set. These settings are as follows:
It is stored in the system memory 8.

Next, when transmitting the original, the operator
Set the destination to call and perform the startup operation.

FIG. 3 shows the operation on the transmitting side in this case, and FIG. 4 shows the operation on the receiving side.

That is, first, the transmitting side makes a call (process 101), and then the receiving side receives the call (process 201).

When the receiving side receives a call, it sends out a CIED signal and an NSF signal according to a known transmission control procedure, as shown in FIG. In this NSF signal, N5F (S; 5 standard
) and N5F (C3 engineering) corresponding to the CSS double signal.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 6, the N5F(S) transmits known information such as the CCITT member code and manufacturer code, and also transmits a language code indicating the language set by the operator. (Processing 20
2).

In addition, among the multiple registered RTI information, one RTI information set as the standard language may be
(C3I) (processing 203).

When the transmitter receives the NSF signal, it transmits the NSS signal. This NSS signal has the same content as the DC5 signal, which is a standard procedure signal, N5S (S; 5 standard).
and N5S (TSI) corresponding to the TSI signal.

That is, when the transmitting side receives the NSF signal (processing 1
02), Process the received RTI information to display it 103),
The presence or absence of a language code is determined (process 104). and,
If there is a language code (Y in process 104), the designation of that language code is identified (process 105). Next, from among the registered RTI information of each language, information of the specified language is read out and sent by the above-mentioned N5S (TSI) (process 106).

After this, reading of the original image is started. Then, from among the registered Ti'T information of each language, information of the designated language is read out. Then, the TTI information is converted into an image, and the TTT image is added to the original image and transmitted (process 107).

When the receiving side receives the above NSS signal (processing 204)
, display the RTI information received in that signal (process 20
5).

Next, the transmitted TTI information and original image are received and recorded as shown in FIG. 7 (process 206).

As a result, on the receiving side, the RTI information is displayed in the desired prefix set by the operator, and the 1-go information is recorded.

By the way, when the sending side makes a call to a conventional device, the language code is not notified. In this case (N in process 104), RTI information is transmitted in the set reference language (process 108), and TTI information is transmitted (
Processing 109).

In addition, in the embodiment described in -, the TTT information is transmitted as the registered information, but it is also possible to add the transmission date and time, the page number of the manuscript, etc. as has been done in the past. Often, in that case, the additional information is also displayed in a predetermined language.

Further, in the above embodiment, the image receiving side specifies the desired language to the sending side, but the sending side also uses NSS.
(S) may be used to specify a desired language to the receiving side, and the receiving side may transmit RTI information again using N5F (C3I) in accordance with the specification.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

In this embodiment, a facsimile machine having the same configuration as that in FIG. 1 executes relay transmission processing.

Now, assume that a call is made from a transmission requester for relay transmission. As shown in Figure 8, when a facsimile machine receives a call (
Process 301), executes the transmission control procedure shown in FIG.
An NSS signal is received from the other party (process 302).

In this case, the telephone number of the other party to whom the image should be transferred is notified by this NSS signal. In addition, in this embodiment, this NSS
At signal N5S(S), the language code is notified as shown in FIG.

The facsimile machine stores the notified telephone number (process 303) and also stores the language specified by the language code (process 304). Next, the transmitted image is received and stored in the image memory 4 (process 305).

Thereafter, the communication is terminated, and then a predetermined relay transmission process is executed in which calls are sequentially made to each of the stored destinations and the stored images are transmitted. In this transmission process, if a call is made to the other party and the line is busy or there is no response, the call is made again after a certain period of time has elapsed. If the other party does not respond even after repeating the call a certain number of times, the transmission is stopped (process 306).

When the relay transmission process is completed, a call is made to the transmission request source (process 307). When the relay transmission request source responds, it transmits the relay transmission result rev-1-.

In this relay transmission result Rebo-1, each destination phone number,
Character information indicating the received RTI information, the success or failure of image transmission, and the date and time of transmission for destinations to which the image transmission was successful is transmitted as an image.

In this embodiment, the ``1'' character information is displayed in the language designated by the recipient, which is stored in the process 304 (hereinafter referred to as ``2'', process 308).

Thereby, the relay transmission requester can receive the relay transmission result in the desired language.

Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

The facsimile device of this embodiment has the device configuration shown in FIG. 1, and as shown in FIG.
It is assumed that the T-engineering information is registered.

By the way, on a normal telephone line, when making a call outside of 71d, the dialing order is the international prefix number, ten country codes, ten area codes, and ten local telephone numbers.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9, "Japanese" is registered in advance for domestic calls, and "Japanese" is registered in advance for calls to outside of the IU, for example, the United States whose country code is "1" and "Japanese" are registered for calls to outside the country. Register each country code and the 12 languages suitable for that country, such as ``English'' for the United Kingdom in ``44'' and ``German'' for West 1 to 1 in ``49''.

When the facsimile machine makes a call to each destination as shown in FIG. 10 in such a device state (process 401)
, it is determined whether the dialed number is a domestic call or a call outside of 71d, depending on whether the dialed number has the above international identification number (process 402
).

Then, in the case of a domestic call (N in process 402), "Japanese" is selected according to the above registered information (process 4
03), in the case of a call outside dσ (Y in process 402), select the language corresponding to the dialed country code (process 40
4).

After this, when sending the manuscript, please use the language selected in 1.
Send RTI information and TTI information. Furthermore, in the case of a relay transmission result report, the relay transmission result report is transmitted in the selected language (process 405).

This allows each piece of information to be transmitted in a language suitable for each recipient.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described.

The facsimile machine of this embodiment has the same configuration as the above embodiment, registers RTI information and TTI information in the same way in each language, and is also provided with a speed dial calling function.

Further, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 11, in correspondence with each speed dial number, the language suitable for the destination is registered in advance along with the destination telephone number.

When the facsimile machine makes a call using the speed dial in this state, as shown in FIG. 12 (processing 501).
, selects the language registered with the dialed speed dial number (process 502). Then RTI in the language of your choice
Send various information such as information and TTI information (processing 50
3).

This allows information to be transmitted in a language suitable for each destination.

In each of the embodiments described above, the language of the text information to be sent is changed according to preset conditions, but the operator may manually select the language during communication.

In addition, although the case where RTI information, TTI information, and relay transmission results are transmitted in various languages has been described, the present invention
It goes without saying that the present invention can be widely applied to transmitting not only the above information but also character information.

Furthermore, although the language of the text information to be transmitted is changed, for example, when transmitting number information using a C3I signal or a TSI signal, the content itself may be changed depending on the destination.

Furthermore, in recent years, facsimile machines that respond to voice messages have been used, and it is also conceivable to send such voice messages in various languages.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, in the first invention of the present application, when the receiving side specifies a desired language to the transmitting side using a procedure signal, the transmitting side transmits text information in that language, and the second In the invention, text information is transmitted in a language corresponding to the area indicated by the telephone number when making a call, and in the third invention, the telephone number of each destination and a language suitable for the destination are stored in advance, Since text information is sent in the language corresponding to the telephone number of the other party when making a call, the receiving side can receive each piece of information in the language appropriate for each party.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a facsimile machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of RTI information and TTI information registered in that embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an image transmission diagram in the above embodiment. Figure 4 is an operation flowchart of the image receiving side in the above embodiment, Figure 5 is a sequence diagram of the transmission control procedure between the transmitting side and the receiving side, and Figure 6 is a sequence diagram of the transmission control procedure in the above embodiment. An explanatory diagram of NSS signal transmission information, FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a recorded image on the receiving side in the above embodiment, FIG. 8 is an operation flowchart of relay transmission processing in the second embodiment, and FIG. 9 is a diagram of the third embodiment. 10 is an operational flowchart of the calling process in the embodiment, FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of the registered information in the fourth embodiment, and FIG. 12 is an operational flowchart of the calling process in the embodiment. It is. Toscanner, 2... Plotter, 3... Encoding/decoding unit, 4... Image memory, 5... Modem, 6 Network control device, 7... Operation display unit, 8... System memory, 9・
System control unit, 10...signal bus.

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) In a facsimile machine that is equipped with the function of transmitting various character information to the recipient in addition to the original image, the language determination means that determines the language specified by the recipient based on the procedure signal of the transmission control procedure. and information transmitting means for transmitting the various character information in the language described above. (2) In a facsimile machine that is equipped with the function of transmitting various text information to the recipient in addition to the original image, a language determination means for determining the language suitable for the recipient's area indicated by the telephone number from which the call was made; and information transmitting means for transmitting the above-mentioned various character information in a language. (3) In a facsimile machine equipped with a function of transmitting various text information to a recipient in addition to a document image, a storage means for storing in advance the correspondence between each recipient's telephone number and a language suitable for each recipient; A facsimile apparatus comprising: information transmitting means for transmitting the above-mentioned various character information in a corresponding language when a call is made to a stored destination telephone number.