JPH05160986A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To transfer only document information which is received from a specific transmission source. CONSTITUTION:The identification symbol, e.g. telephone number of a transmission source A is included in a TSI signal (transmitting station identification signal) and received by a receiving means 1. This telephone number is decided by an identification symbol decision means 2, whose decision result is supplied to a comparing means 4. This comparing means 4 is supplied with a telephone number registered in an identification symbol decision means, also. Then the telephone number decided by the identification symbol decision means 2 is compared with the telephone number registered in the identification symbol registering means 3. When the telephone number of the transmission source A is registered, the document information received by the receiving means 1 is sent to a transfer destination B by a transmitting means 6. The telephone number of this transfer destination B is registered in a transfer destination telephone number registering means 5. When the telephone number of the transmission source A is not registered, the received document information is printed out.

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 transfer function.

[0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION There are facsimile machines that have a transfer function. As is well known, this transfer function does not print out the document information received from, for example, the company A, but automatically sends it to, for example, the company B in which a telephone number is registered in advance.

This transfer function is convenient because it is possible to obtain the manuscript information at a destination that the sender of the manuscript information does not know, for example.

[0004]

However, in the transfer function of the conventional facsimile apparatus, since all the received document information is transferred without selecting the transmission source, for example, even unnecessary document information is transferred at the destination. It may take extra time to sort them out.

Further, for example, when a plurality of people are using the facsimile apparatus, if a person sets a transfer function to obtain information at a place where he / she is out, the manuscript information sent to other people is also transferred. There is a problem such as being lost.

Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned problems and proposes a facsimile apparatus capable of transferring only document information sent from a specific transmission source.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, in a facsimile apparatus having a transfer function capable of transmitting received document information to a preset transfer destination, the document information is transmitted. The identification symbol registration means for registering the transmitted identification symbol of the transmission source, the identification symbol determination means for analyzing the received control signal to determine the identification symbol of the transmission source, and the identification symbol determined by the identification symbol determination means are identified. It is characterized in that it has a comparing means for judging whether or not it has been registered in the symbol registration means, and that only the manuscript information received from the transmission source of the identification symbol registered in the identification symbol registration means is transmitted to the transfer destination. It is what

[0008]

In FIG. 1, the identification code of the transmission source A, such as a telephone number, is included in the TSI signal (transmission station identification signal).
This is received by the receiving means 1. This telephone number is discriminated by the discrimination symbol discriminating means 2 and the discrimination result is supplied to the comparing means 4.

The comparison unit 4 is also supplied with the telephone number registered in the identification symbol registration unit 3. Then, the telephone number discriminated by the discrimination symbol discriminating means 2 and the telephone number registered in the discrimination symbol registering means 3 are compared here.

When the telephone number of the transmission source A is registered, the document information received by the reception means 1 is transferred to the transfer destination telephone number registration means 5 by the transmission means 6 and the transfer destination B is registered. Sent to.

When the telephone number of the sender A is not registered, the received document information is printed out by the recording means 7.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows functional blocks of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a receiving means,
The control signal and the manuscript information transmitted from the transmission source A are received.

Reference numeral 2 is an identification code discriminating means, which analyzes the received control signal and identifies the transmission source identification code (I) included therein.
D symbol) is determined. A telephone number is generally used as this identification symbol, but any symbol other than this can be used.

Reference numeral 3 is a transmission source identification symbol registration means for registering the identification symbol of the transmission source. The identification symbol of the transmission source that transmits the document information to be transferred is registered here. Reference numeral 4 is a comparison means, which compares the identification symbol determined by the identification symbol determination means 2 with the identification symbol registered in the transmission source identification symbol registration means 3.

If the identification symbol discriminated by the discriminating means 2 is registered, a coincidence signal is transmitted, and otherwise a non-coincidence signal is transmitted.

Reference numeral 5 is a transfer destination telephone number registration means for registering the transfer destination B telephone number. Reference numeral 6 denotes a transmission means for transmitting the document information received by the reception means 1 to the transfer destination B when receiving the coincidence signal.

Reference numeral 7 is a recording means, which prints out the document information received by the receiving means 1 when receiving the non-coincidence signal from the comparing means 4.

The above-mentioned plurality of means constitute a part of the transmission / reception control means 10 shown in FIG. In the figure, 11 is a CPU that manages transmission / reception control, 12 is a ROM that stores various control programs such as transmission / reception functions and transfer functions, 13
Is a RAM that stores image information to be transmitted.

The image information read by the image reading unit 14 is stored in the RAM 13 via the interface 15 or is directly supplied to the modem and the network control circuit (NCU) 16 functioning as a transmitting / receiving means. In addition, the image information input from the communication line is
The data is stored in the RAM 13 via 16 or is directly supplied to the recording unit 18 functioning as a printer via the interface 17 to record its contents.

The telephone number or the like of the transmission destination is displayed by being supplied to the display unit 20 via the interface 19. The operation unit 21 is provided with a plurality of keys (not shown), and when these keys are operated, the contents thereof are taken into the CPU 11 via the interface 22.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the procedure of the transfer process 30 in this facsimile apparatus. In the transfer process 30, when a control signal is first received from the transmission source (step 31), it is then determined whether or not the transfer mode is set (step 32).

In the transfer mode, the identification code of the transmission source included in the TSI signal, for example, the telephone number is determined (step 33), and subsequently it is determined whether or not this telephone number is registered (step 34). ).

When the telephone number of the transmission source is registered, the manuscript information is subsequently received (step 35) and is transmitted to the transfer destination (step 36). This ends the transfer process 30.

If it is determined in step 32 that the transmission mode is not set, and if it is determined in step 34 that the transmission source telephone number is not registered, the received document information is not transferred and is printed out. (Steps 37, 3
8) The transfer process 30 ends.

The identification code of the transmission source and the telephone number of the transfer destination can be registered in combination as shown in FIG. This makes it possible to transfer information received from a plurality of transmission sources to one transfer destination. Further, there can be a plurality of transfer destinations.

If the source field is left blank, all the received document information can be transferred.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, in a facsimile apparatus having a transfer function, only original information sent from a specific sender can be transferred.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to obtain only necessary information on the go.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a procedure of transfer processing.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of registration of a transmission source identification symbol.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Receiving means 2 Identification symbol determining means 3 Source identification symbol registering means 4 Comparing means 5 Transfer destination telephone number registering means 6 Sending means 7 Recording means 11 CPU 12 ROM 13 RAM 14 Image reading section 18 Recording section 20 Display section 21 Operation section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus having a transfer function capable of transmitting the received document information to a preset transfer destination, and an identification symbol registration means for registering an identification symbol of the transmission source of the document information. Comparison for determining whether or not the identification symbol discriminated by the identification symbol discriminating means is registered in the identification symbol discriminating means by comparing the received control signal with the discrimination symbol of the transmission source. A facsimile apparatus comprising means for transmitting only the document information received from the transmission source of the identification symbol registered in the identification symbol registration means to the transfer destination.