JPH05167744A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To add a time to be added to a transmission picture while converting the time into a time for a reception side. CONSTITUTION:The facsimile equipment is provided with a time conversion section 2 having a clock 10 and converting a current time into a time of a destination, a read section 1 converting a transmission original into binarized data in the unit of lines, a sender side synthesis section 3 synthesizing picture data from the read section 1 and time data from the time conversion section 2, a coder 4 coding and compressing the synthesized data and a transmission section 5 sending the coded data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a facsimile machine which adds a time of a sender to a transmission image for transmission.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of facsimile apparatus, the time of the transmission source is added to the time of addition to the transmission image.

[0003]

In this conventional facsimile apparatus, since the sender's time is added to the sender's time to be added to the transmitted image, when the original is sent from Japan to the overseas side, Since the time added to the recorded image received in is Japan time, not the current time of the receiving side, it is necessary to calculate considering the time difference from Japan in order to know when it was sent There was a problem called.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned inconvenience inherent in the prior art. Therefore, the object of the present invention is to convert the time of the sender added to the transmitted image into the time of the receiver. Another object is to provide a new facsimile apparatus that can be added by adding.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention includes a time conversion unit having a clock for converting the current time into the time of a transmission destination, and a transmission manuscript in line units. An image memory capable of accumulating a reading unit or image data as binary data, a transmission source synthesizing unit for synthesizing the image data from the reading unit or the image memory and the time data of the transmission source from the time converting unit, and An encoder that encodes and compresses the encoded data and a transmission unit that transmits the encoded data are configured.

[0006]

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 a first embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the reading unit 1 scans a transmission document line by line and sets the scanned image as binarized data. The time conversion unit 2 has a clock 10 and the clock 10
The information from is converted into the time of the destination by the destination. The sender synthesizing unit 3 synthesizes the image data from the reading unit 1 and the time data from the time converting unit 2 in synchronization with each other. Encoder 4
Compresses the data synthesized by the source synthesis unit 3 by encoding. The transmission unit 5 transmits / receives a communication control signal, and transmits the code data of the encoder 4 to the partner facsimile machine.

A method of adding the time of the transmission destination to the transmission image with the above configuration will be described.

FIG. 3 is a time conversion data table of the facsimile machine according to the first and second embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, this time conversion data table has, as data, a time difference from Japan corresponding to a country code and a region code. If the time conversion unit 2 shown in FIG. 1 determines that it is an international communication based on the telephone number of the calling destination, the time conversion unit 2 determines data based on the country code and region code from the time conversion data table of FIG. Is obtained, added to the clock information from the clock 10, and passed to the origination synthesizing unit 3 as time data. The sender synthesizing unit 3 synchronizes the image data from the reading unit 1 with the time data from the time converting unit 2, and adds the image data from the transmitting unit 1 before the image data or replaces the image data with the image data or the image data. The image data and the time data are combined by performing the logical OR (OR) with or the exclusive OR (Exclusive-OR) with the image data. The combined data is encoded by the encoder 4, and the transmitter 5
Is transmitted to the facsimile machine of the other party and recorded as a received image.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the time conversion unit 2 and the clock 1
0, the source synthesizing unit 3, the encoder 4, and the transmitting unit 5 are the same as those in the first embodiment according to the present invention, but the image memory 6 is replaced in place of the reading unit 1. The image memory 6 is
Originals to be transmitted are accumulated as image data. The image memory 6 passes the image data to the transmission source synthesizing unit 3 instead of the reading unit 1 of the first embodiment. The transmission source synthesizing unit 3 receives the image data from the image memory 6 and the time data from the time conversion unit 2. Synchronize with and synthesize.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By setting the sender's time added to the transmitted image to the destination's current time, the receiver clearly knows when it was sent when communicating with a region with a time difference, and calculates by calculating the time difference from the sender The effect of not having to do is obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a time conversion data table of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention.

[Description of Codes] 1 ... reading unit 2 ... time conversion unit 3 ... source synthesizing unit 4 ... encoder 5 ... transmission unit 6 ... image memory 10 ... clock

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus for transmitting a transmission image with the time of the transmission source added, and a time conversion unit having a clock for converting the current time to the time of the transmission destination; And a transmission source synthesizing unit for synthesizing the image data binarized by the reading unit and the time data of the transmission source from the time conversion unit. Facsimile machine characterized by adding a. 2. An image memory storing image data to be transmitted is arranged instead of the reading unit, and the transmission source synthesizing unit transmits the image data from the image memory and the transmission output from the time conversion unit. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising synthesizing original time data.