JPH05130355A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically resend a document, which can not be sent from a transmitter side owing to a failure in image information reception on a receiv er side due to a recording paper jam, etc., from the transmitter side at proper time intervals according to the abnormal state of the receiver side. CONSTITUTION:When the document is sent from the transmitter side 1 to the receiver side 2, the receiver side 2 ends a communication after informing the transmitter side 1 of a code indicating the contents of abnormality which disables the receiver side 2 to receive the image information is generated. On the transmitter side 1, the receiver abnormality code and communication end time are stored in a destination information storage part 18. The main control part 14 of the transmitter side 1 retrieves the address information storage part 18 periodically, and a time interval corresponding to the abnormality code is read out of a device constant storage part 16 as to the destination having the receiver abnormality code and checked by a timer device 11 and a time comparing circuit 12. When the transmission interval is arrived the image information on the corresponding document is read out of the image information storage memory 19 and resent.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine having a storage function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of facsimile apparatus,
If the device on the receiver side is unable to receive due to an error such as no recording paper or a recording paper jam, the receiver side will forcibly interrupt the incoming call and a communication error will occur. If the transmitter has a recall function, the call is re-executed at regular intervals for a fixed number of times or for a fixed period of time. Become.

Incidentally, it is not possible to specifically know the abnormal state on the receiver side only by the communication abnormal code.

[0004]

However, abnormalities that require manual release such as recording paper jams,
Some documents, such as the full storage memory, are printed or sent to free up space and spontaneously recover, and the time required for recovery varies. Once a non-delivery document is reached, this document cannot be sent unless the operator on the sending side performs a re-transmission operation. In addition, depending on the device, the stored document may be erased when it cannot be sent, and in this case, it is necessary to start reading the document again.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems inherent in the prior art. Therefore, the object of the present invention is to allow the transmitting side to notify a code indicating an abnormal content from the receiving side. It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel facsimile apparatus capable of automatically retransmitting at an appropriate time interval according to an abnormality on the receiver side.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention has a means for accumulating image information, a means for storing a destination and attribute information of the destination, and a means for transmitting the image information. A means for receiving a notice of the image information unreceivable state of the receiver side, an abnormal code of the unreceivable state, etc., and the destination again with a time interval preset for each abnormal code on the transmitting side according to the abnormal code Means for transmitting image information to the transmitter, means for detecting that the device is in an unreceivable state of image information at the time of reception, and means for transmitting the notification of the unreceivable state and the abnormal code of the unreceivable state to the transmitter side. And is configured.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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

In FIG. 1, a document is transmitted from the transmission side device 1 on the left side of the one surrounded by a broken line to the reception side device 2 on the right side. The device of this embodiment includes clock devices 11 and 21 capable of reading out the current time, time comparison circuits 12 and 22 for comparing the current time with a designated time and outputting the result, operation of the device, and the like. The operation units 13 and 23 that can input various parameters, the main control units 14 and 24 that control the operation of the entire apparatus, and the main control units 14 and 24 that detect a device abnormality such as no recording paper or recording paper jam. Device abnormality detection units 15 and 25 for notification, device constant storage units 16 and 26 for storing various constants input from the respective operation units 13 and 23, and a communication control unit for transmitting and receiving image information and attribute information 17 and 27
And destination information storage units 18 and 28 that store destination information including attribute information of the transmitted document, and image information storage memories 19 and 29 that store the transmitted or received document.

The transmitted document is composed of image information and destination information, the image information is stored in the image information storage memory 19, and the destination information is stored in the destination information storage section 18. The destination information includes the telephone number of the destination, the number indicating the image information to be transmitted, the communication time and the communication result. The main control unit 14 reads out this telephone number and notifies the communication control unit 17 to execute a calling operation, and connects the transmitter side 1 and the receiver side 2 through a line.

After the connection, the main control unit 24 on the receiver side 2 checks the signal from the device abnormality detection unit 25, and if normal, sends a signal of a normal reception procedure from the communication control unit 27, and the transmitter side When the communication control unit 17 receives this normal signal,
The main control unit 14 transfers the image information from the image information storage memory 19 to the communication control unit 17 and transmits it to the receiver side 2.

However, after the connection, the main control section 24 of the receiver side 2 responds when the signal of the apparatus abnormality detection section 25 confirms an abnormality that the image information cannot be received (for example, when the memory is full). Communication control unit 2 with receiver error code
Notify 7. The communication control unit 27 sends an error status indicating that the image information cannot be received due to the occurrence of an error to the transmitter side 1
And then the receiver error code.

On the other hand, when the communication control unit 17 on the transmitter side 1 receives the abnormal status that the image information cannot be received, it waits for the data of the receiver abnormal code to be sent next and waits for the receiver abnormal code. When the data is received, it is passed to the main control unit 14 and the communication is ended. The main control unit 14 stores the receiver abnormality code and the communication end time in the destination information storage unit 18 as a part of the destination information of the document to be transmitted.

After that, the main control unit 14 searches the destination information storage unit 18 at regular time intervals to detect the destination for which the receiver abnormality code is set, and reads this receiver abnormality code and communication end time. Further, the retransmission interval of the corresponding abnormal code is read from the device constant storage unit 16. Main controller 14
Calculates the time obtained by adding the retransmission interval to the communication end time, and compares the time read from the clock device 11 with the time comparison unit 12.

When the main control unit 14 knows that the scheduled time for canceling the abnormality has passed, the main control unit 14 reads out the telephone number from the destination information of the relevant document, notifies the communication control unit 17, and then connects to the receiver side 2 again. Then, it is confirmed that the image information is normal, the image information of the relevant document is read from the image information storage memory 19 and transferred to the communication control unit 17, and the communication control unit 17 transmits this image information to the receiver side 2.

The transmission interval corresponding to the above-mentioned receiver abnormality code is preset by the operator from the operation unit 23, and the main control unit 24 stores the time in the device constant storage unit 26.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention,
If you set the retransmission interval time corresponding to the receiver error code in advance on the transmitter side, if the receiver side cannot receive image information due to memory full or recording paper jam, etc. When the receiver sends a corresponding error code to the transmitter, the transmitter automatically retransmits at a time interval according to the details of the error, The effect that the certainty is further improved can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Transmission side device 2 ... Reception side device 11, 21 ... Clock device 12, 22 ... Time comparison circuit 13, 23 ... Operation part 14, 24 ... Main control part 15, 25 ... Device abnormality detection part 16, 26 ... Device constant Storage unit 17, 27 ... Communication control unit 18, 28 ... Destination information storage unit 19, 29 ... Image information storage memory

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A means for accumulating image information, a means for storing the destination and attribute information of the destination, a notice of the image information unreceivable state and an abnormal code of the unreceivable state on the receiver side when transmitting the image information. A means for receiving, a means for transmitting the image information to the destination again at a time interval previously set for each abnormality code on the transmission side according to the abnormality code, and a device when the image information cannot be received at the time of reception. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a means for detecting that there is a notification; and a means for transmitting to the transmitter side the notification of the unreceivable state and the abnormal code of the unreceivable state.