JPH05176093A - Document communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically transmit document data without inputting operation of a telephone number. CONSTITUTION:At the time of transmitting document data, a control part 3 cuts out the necessary documents in page units from among the plural document data by an edition control part 4, and writes the transmission document data in a secondary storage device 12 by controlling a storage device control part 11. At that time, the control part 3 inputs a telephone number from a keyboard 1, and stores it with the transmission document data in the secondary storage device 12. At the time of transmission, the document of the secondary storage device 12 are designated, and then transmitted by automatically calling to the other party with the stored telephone number, so that the operation can be simplified, and the erroneous operation of dialing a wrong number can be prevented.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a document communication device in which a document communication function is added to (hereinafter referred to as FAX).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, even when a document is sent by fax to a predetermined partner, it is necessary to document the document and manually input a telephone number.

Since a communication procedure between sending and receiving a document by FAX is determined, when the sender sends the telephone number of the recipient, the line is connected according to the line control procedure.
Send the document text to the other party.

This will be described in more detail. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a conventional FAX operation. First, a document of a document to be transmitted is created (S21), the documents are arranged in the order of transmission (S22), and the arranged documents are set in the FAX (S2).
3). Next, the destination telephone number is input (S24), it is confirmed whether the correct telephone number has been input (S25), and if the telephone number is incorrect, the process returns to the previous step and the telephone number is re-input (S24). When all preparations have been completed, send an instruction to start transmission (S26),
The transmission document is transmitted (S27), and the document transmission operation ends (S28).

In the FAX reception, when the receiver receives the telephone number from the sender, the line is connected according to the line control procedure, and the document of the other party is automatically received to obtain the document of the document.

[0006]

As described above, when transmitting a document by the conventional FAX, not only the new document is created but also the document stored in the secondary storage device such as a floppy disk is written and the other party is written. Inputting the above telephone number requires manual work, and these operations take time. For this reason, it is easy to make a mistake in dialing a telephone number, and it is necessary to operate the telephone number even with a fixed partner every time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional problems, and provides a document communication apparatus which eliminates the work of writing a document having contents such as floppy and the like and eliminates manual input of a telephone number. With the goal.

[0008]

According to the present invention, there is provided means for creating a manuscript by inputting with a keyboard or cutting out a required page of a document called from a secondary storage device, and continuously with a keyboard if necessary. Means for creating a correction manuscript by inputting a document or calling from a secondary storage device to the manuscript, cutting out necessary pages of the document and adding to the manuscript, and a completed manuscript for correction. Means for writing in the secondary storage device, and inputting the telephone number of the destination to the transmission document with the keyboard,
Alternatively, it is provided with means for calling from the secondary storage device and writing the identification ID in the heading of the transmission document.

[0009]

According to the present invention, when a document is transmitted, it is automatically transmitted only by designating the name of the document to be transmitted, and the input operation of the telephone number of the destination is unnecessary. Further, since a plurality of transmission documents can be managed in document units, not only the work is facilitated, but also the work time is significantly shortened.

[0010]

FIG. 4 shows an example of the structure of a transmission original according to the present invention. In the figure, documents A, B, and C are newly created documents or documents stored in the secondary storage device. The document X is a transmission document edited from the target documents A, B, and C. The first page A1 of document A is the first page X1 of document X, the third page B3 of document B is the second page X2 of document X, and the second page C2 of document C is the third page of document X. It is edited into X3 and becomes a transmission original.

FIG. 5 is a structural example of an information message used in the present invention. The information message is composed of a heading 13 and a text 14, and is a structure when written in a storage device. As shown in the figure, the heading 13 is a destination information message, which is the total number of pages, paper width, encoding method, destination. Abbreviation, identification code such as destination telephone number, segment I
D, etc. are included, and document data is included as the text 14.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the document communication apparatus of the present invention. The document communication apparatus has keys input from function keys such as a character input key, a cursor movement key, and a call / save key. Keyboard 1 to read
And a key input control unit 2 for coding the input key
A control unit 3, an edit control unit 4, a screen display control unit 5 for displaying coded document data on the display 6, a buffer 7, a communication device control unit 8 for controlling the FAX 9, and a code. Primary storage device 10 for temporarily storing the digitized data as document data, and secondary storage device 12
(Floppy disk) and a storage device controller 11 for controlling writing of document data.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the procedure for editing the information message of the transmission document used in the present invention. The control unit 3 determines whether the transmitted document is a newly created document or an existing document in the secondary storage device 12 (S1). If the document is new, the document name and the document are input from the keyboard 1 to create a document (S2). In the case of an existing document, when the document in the secondary storage device 12 is called, the control unit 3 controls the storage device control unit 11 to control the segment ID of the secondary storage device 12.
The menu is displayed on the display 6, and the document name is specified by the coordinates of cursor movement (S3).

The specified text 14 of the document (FIG. 5) is displayed on the display 6, and the page of the required portion of the displayed signal is cut out by the control of the editing control section 4 to create a document (S4). Further, if other document data is required, the process is continued as needed (S5-NO), and the process returns to S4, 2
The next document in the next storage device 12 is designated, the document is added to the original document, and the document is displayed on the display 6. Then, as in the previous time, a necessary portion of the displayed document is cut out, and the original document is added to create a corrected original document. When the corrected manuscript is completed and the designation of the document data is completed (S5), the completed corrected manuscript is written in the secondary storage device 12 as a transmission manuscript.
(S6).

Next, when the destination telephone number is not stored in the secondary storage device 12 (S7-YES), the destination telephone number of the transmission original is input by the keyboard 1 as the destination telephone number. (S8). Alternatively, the telephone number is called from the secondary storage device, and the identification ID is written in the heading 13 of the transmission document, and the information message is completed and the process ends.
9). As described above, the information message of the transmitted document is created as the document with the telephone number.

The transmitted document is managed in document units with the name of the other party. Since the information message of the transmitted document stores the telephone number of the other party in the heading, a third party can easily transmit the document to the other party by the transmitted document name by the segment ID.

Upon receiving the telephone number from the sender, the document is connected to the line according to the line control procedure, and the document of the other party is automatically received. At this time, the received document data is 2
If the destination telephone number is not stored in the secondary storage device 12 while being stored as text in the secondary storage device 12,
As the destination telephone number, the telephone number of the sender of the received document is input by the keyboard 1.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the transmission operation of the document communication apparatus of the present invention. When the instruction of the transmission key is input from the keyboard 1, the menu of the document name stored in the secondary storage device 12 is displayed on the display 6 (S10).

When a document to be transmitted is selected from the document name menu (S11), the control unit 3 causes the secondary storage device 12 to operate.
Heading 13 (Fig. 5) such as telephone number from primary storage device
Read in 10 (S12). The segment ID of the telephone number is read from the information message read in the primary storage device 10, and the communication device control unit 8 is controlled to send the telephone number to the other party to make a call (S13). When the receiver's telephone is connected, the control unit 3 transfers the text 14 (document data) from the secondary storage device 12 via the storage device control unit 11 to the primary storage device 10.
Read in (S14), store in the buffer 7, and control the FAX 9 by the communication device controller 8 to send the text of the document.
(S15).

[0020]

As described above, the document communication device of the present invention selects the required document data from the information messages of the documents stored in the secondary storage device and sets the required document data in page units. You can edit the sent document by cutting with. Further, since the heading such as the telephone number of the destination data is stored in the information message of the document data, the call can be automatically made only by the document name of the document to be transmitted. Further, since the destinations can be managed for a plurality of destinations on a document-by-document basis, not only the work becomes easier, but also a mistake in dialing a telephone number is eliminated, and the work can be greatly shortened.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of an embodiment of a document communication device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a procedure for editing an information message of a transmission document used in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining a transmission operation of the document communication device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a transmission document according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a structural example diagram of an information message used in the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a conventional FAX operation.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Keyboard, 2 ... Key input control part, 3 ... Control part, 4 ... Editing control part, 5 ... Screen display control part,
6 ... Display, 7 ... Buffer, 8 ... Communication device control unit, 9 ... FAX, 10 ... Primary storage device, 11 ... Storage device control unit, 12 ... Secondary storage device (floppy disk), 13 ... Heading, 14 ... text.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A means for creating a manuscript by inputting with a keyboard or cutting out a required page of a document called from a secondary storage device, and if necessary, continuously inputting with a keyboard or a secondary storage Means for adding a document called from the apparatus to the original, cutting out necessary pages of the document and adding to the original to create a corrected original, and means for writing the completed corrected original as a transmission original in a secondary storage device A document communication apparatus, comprising means for inputting a telephone number of a transmission destination to the transmission original with a keyboard or calling from a secondary storage device to write an identification ID in the heading of the transmission original.