JPH05122423A - Fax equipment provided with display function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a FAX equipment with display function where the header part of a reception document is confirmed on the picture of a list of reception documents. CONSTITUTION:This equipment is provided with a line control circuit 312 for reception, a storage part 308 for storage of reception documents, a display device 301 for display of reception documents, and a means including a CPU 307 which selects a list of reception documents stored in the storage part 308 on the picture of the display device 301 and displays a part of the selected reception document. Consequently, the transmission source of the reception document is easily and quickly retrieved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a fax machine with a display function capable of displaying a received document on a display device such as a display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 6 shows a basic block diagram of a conventional fax machine having a display function. The FAX device with a display function receives data in the external storage device 104 such as a floppy disk, selects the received document on the received document list screen as shown in FIG. 7 using the input device 101 such as the keyboard, and selects the selected reception. The document is displayed on the display device 100 such as a CRT.

Normally, when writing a received document to a floppy disk, data such as the reception time is written as a file name. Therefore, even if the received document list is displayed on the display device 100, it is possible to see at a glance who the document came from. do not know.
FIG. 7 shows an example of the screen display. In order to confirm the contents of the received document, the document is selected by referring to the received document list screen, the selected document is called from the external storage device 104, and the called data is converted into a form that can be displayed on the display device 100. There is a need. A flowchart of this process is shown in FIG.

[0004]

However, it is difficult to select the desired document only on the received document list screen when the number of received documents is large, and the procedure shown in FIG. 8 must be applied every time. However, it has a problem that it takes a very long time.

The present invention solves such a problem, and an object thereof is to provide a FAX apparatus with a display function for displaying a part of a received document on a received document list screen when selecting the received document. ..

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a line control means for receiving a FAX,
A storage unit for storing the received document, a display unit for displaying the received document, a received document list stored in the storage unit is selected on the screen of the display unit, and a part of the selected received document is displayed on the screen. A means for displaying is provided.

[0007]

According to the present invention, since the document selected from the list of received documents is displayed on the screen of the display means by the above-mentioned structure, it becomes easy to search for the target document.

[0008]

EXAMPLE FIG. 1 shows an example of the present invention. The apparatus is divided into a document processing unit such as a word processor and a FAX unit, and an arbitration circuit is connected to each of them.

The document processing section 1 includes a CPU 307 for controlling the entire document processing, a display device 301, a display control circuit 304,
An input device 302 such as a keyboard, an input control circuit 305,
Floppy drive 303, floppy control circuit 30
6, including a storage unit 308. The FAX unit 2 includes a CPU 311 that controls the entire FAX unit, a line control circuit 312, a print control circuit 313, a printing apparatus 316, and a scanner control circuit 3.
14, a scanner 317, an input control circuit 315, and a control key 318. An arbitration circuit 310 connects these two independent blocks.

When the CPU 311 detects FAX reception,
The received data is transmitted to the document processing unit 1 through the line control circuit 312 and the arbitration circuit 310. The document processing unit 1 is a CP
Under the control of U307, the received data transmitted from the arbitration circuit 310 is written to the floppy drive 303 with a file name added. Thus, the received document is saved on the floppy disk.

When the data is stored in the floppy disk, the compressed data of the ordinary MH system (Modified Huffman system) or the like is stored as it is in consideration of the disk capacity.

Next, a display confirmation example of the received document will be shown. A FAX function selection screen as shown in FIG. 2 is displayed on the display device 301, and the menu "display received document" is selected by the input device 302 such as a keyboard. "Display received document"
When is selected, the received document list screen shown in FIG. 3- (1) is displayed on the display device 301. The process up to this point is the same as the conventional technique, and the display method, display layout, etc. are different.

The feature of the present invention is that when a document to be displayed is selected on the received document list screen as shown in FIG. 3- (2),
First, a part of the document is displayed on the screen as an overlay. Usually, a FAX document often has a header added to the top of the paper, and it is often possible to confirm where it came from and who it came from by looking at this information. FIG. 5 shows an example thereof. By utilizing this, by adding a function of displaying only the uppermost part of the received document on the received document list screen before displaying the entire received document, it becomes possible to search for the target received document in a short time.

An example of this display is shown in FIG. 3- (3). A flow chart of the display operation is shown in FIG. As described above, according to the FAX device with a display function of the embodiment of the present invention, the communication line control circuit, the received document storage unit, the received document display device, and the received document list are selected on the display device screen, and the selected document is selected. Since a means for drawing on the screen is provided, the target document can be searched quickly.

The present invention is not particularly limited to the screen layout, display method, key operation, etc. of the embodiment shown.

[0016]

As apparent from the above embodiments, according to the present invention, the received document stored in the external storage device can be easily
In addition, it is possible to provide a fax machine with a display function that can be searched in a short time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a fax machine with a display function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an example of a function selection screen display in the same device.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a document display example in the same device.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of document display in the same apparatus.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a received document

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional FAX device with a display function.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a conventional received document list example.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the flow of document display in the conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 301 display device 302 keyboard 304 display control circuit 305 input control circuit 307 CPU 308 storage unit 310 arbitration circuit 311 CPU 312 line control circuit

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A communication line control means for enabling FAX reception, a storage means for storing a received document, a display means for displaying the received document, and a received document list stored in the storage means. A fax machine with a display function, comprising means for displaying a part of a received document selected on the screen of a display means on the screen.