JPH05199349A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain repetitively required communication management information at any time without wasting paper by providing a specific storage means, a display means, an operation means and a control means to the facsimile equipment. CONSTITUTION:A coding/decoding modulation section 13, a picture signal input output processing section 14, a communication management information storage section 15, an operation section 16 and a display device 17 are connected to a micro processing unit(MPU) 11 being a control center section through an MPU bus 12. A MODEM section 13 implements coding, decoding, modulation, demodulation of data and a signal between a line 18 and the picture signal input output processing section 14. When the facsimile communication is finished, the communication state is sequentially stored in the storage section 15 as communication management information. When the operator desires required communication management information, the operator depresses the operation button of the operation section 16, then the communication management information is displayed on the display device 17 sequentially back to the preceding communication management information and the state restores the standby state after a prescribed time.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus having a communication management information display function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an apparatus of this type stores communication management information such as date, time, time, number of sheets, charges, etc. in order of communication or for each user, and outputs them as a hard copy if necessary. Was there. As the output form of the hard copy, there are a case where a predetermined number of communications are collected and output as a list, and a case where each communication is output.

Further, as a method of confirming the communication result other than such a hard copy, the communication result is displayed on the display for each communication, or an end stamp or the like is displayed for each page of an appropriately communicated document. There is a method of imprinting a confirmation mark.

[0004]

However, the method of outputting the communication result in hard copy is inefficient because it contains a lot of unnecessary information when it is output as a list, and it is inefficient. It is a waste of money. Further, in the case of outputting for each communication, the recording of only a few lines is performed on one sheet of paper, which is a waste of paper.
Further, in the method of displaying on the display unit for each communication, since the display is only at that time, the previous communication result cannot be confirmed. In addition, the method of imprinting the completed stamp on each communication manuscript requires a special mechanism for imprinting, which causes a problem that the manuscript is contaminated by the imprinting.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an improved facsimile apparatus capable of repeatedly obtaining necessary communication management information without wasting paper. To do.

[0006]

A facsimile apparatus according to the present invention has a means for sequentially storing communication status of each communication as communication management information in a storage unit, and communication management information on a display by an operation input from an operation unit. A means for sequentially displaying and deleting the communication management information displayed after a fixed time is provided.

[0007]

When the facsimile communication ends, the communication status is sequentially stored in the storage unit as communication management information. When the operator wants to obtain the necessary communication management information, he / she presses the operation button on the operation section, and the communication management information is displayed on the display unit in order starting from the previous communication management information, and after a certain period of time, it goes into the standby state. Return.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows an example of a storage form of communication management information according to the present invention. The communication management information for one communication is the status of each facsimile communication, start time, communication time, destination, number of calls, number of transmissions or receptions, fee, communication code, total communication time, number of transmissions or receptions. , Total communication charges, etc. are included. These pieces of information are sequentially stored for each communication from the top in the figure, a mark indicating the end of the communication management information is stored after the communication management information of the previous communication, and the communication management information of the current communication is stored in this mark. When stored after, this mark is moved next to this communication management information.

FIG. 2 shows a control block of the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention. The Micro Processing Unit (MPU) 11, which is the control center, has an MPU.
A code decoding / modulation unit 13, an image signal input / output processing unit 14, a communication management information storage unit 15, an operation unit 16, and a display unit 17 are connected via a bus 12. The modulation / demodulation unit 13 includes a line 18 and an image signal input / output unit.
Data and signal coding, decoding, modulation, and demodulation are performed between 14 and. The communication management information storage unit 15 records the communication management information as shown in FIG. 1 for each communication. The operation unit 16 gives an instruction as to whether or not the facsimile communication is to display the communication management information on the display unit 17, and also performs a facsimile operation and an operation of calling the communication management information.

FIG. 3 shows a control flow in this control block. When the power is turned on, the device goes into a standby state (step 21). Next, when the operator performs an input operation through the operation unit 16 (step 22), the operation signal is M
It is input to the MPU 11 through the PU bus 12. MPU11
Is the operation signal an instruction for facsimile communication (step 2
3) Is it an instruction to call the communication management information (step 2)
4), or other operation. In the case of a facsimile communication instruction, facsimile communication is performed through the line 18 by the image signal input / output unit 14 and the modulation / demodulation unit 13 under the control of the MPU 11 (step 30). When the communication is over, the MPU 11 starts communication, communication time, number of communication,
The communication status of the other party is stored in the communication management information storage unit 15 (step 31). As shown in FIG. 1, the registration of the communication management information is performed in the area next to the mark indicating the end of the previous communication management information, and when the registration is completed, the position of the mark is advanced by one. When this process ends, the communication management information registered this time is displayed on the display unit 17 (step 32), the display disappears after a certain period of time, and the state returns to the standby state.

A call instruction is given in the operation unit 16,
When the MPU 11 judges this, the operator subsequently performs a calling operation (step 25). The MPU 11 first determines whether it is a call termination instruction (step 2
6) If yes, return to standby. If it is not a call termination instruction, it is judged whether it is a normal call instruction (step 27). Redo the calling operation.

When the normal calling operation is performed, the communication management information is sequentially called from the recording unit 15. For example, when the call operation button is pressed, first, the communication management information immediately before the mark indicating the end of the communication management information shown in FIG.
Is displayed (step 28) and the position is stored in the pointer. When the operator presses the forward button on the operation unit 16, the MPU 11 advances the pointer by one and displays the immediately preceding communication management information currently displayed on the display unit 17. When the operator presses the backward button, the MPU11
Displays the communication management information, which is currently displayed, on the display unit 17 while retracting the pointer by one. When the pointer exceeds the first communication management information storage area or the last communication management information storage area by repeating such operations, an operation error is displayed on the display unit 17 (step 34 ), The value of the caller is returned to the original value (step 35), and the calling operation is performed again. By repeating such a calling operation, necessary communication management information can be obtained.

FIG. 4 shows a display example of the communication management information in step 28. A indicates that the communication date and time is Friday, May 24, 15:23, the destination telephone number is 4917730, the number of communication is 5, and the communication charge is 80 yen. When the forward button is pressed in the operation unit 16 from this state, the communication management information before one communication is displayed as in B, and when the forward operation is further performed, the communication management information before one communication is displayed as in C. If you move backward in this state, B like D
The same communication management information as is displayed.

In the above embodiment, the call result of the communication management information is simply displayed on the display, but the call result can be output as a hard copy.

[0015]

As described above, the facsimile apparatus according to the present invention has means for sequentially storing the communication management information for each communication in the storage unit, and the operation input of the communication management information stored in the storage unit from the operation unit. Display sequentially on the display,
Since a means for deleting the communication management information displayed after a certain period of time is provided, the operator can obtain the necessary communication management information while looking at the communication management information on the display, and waste paper. Without it, the necessary communication management information can be repeatedly obtained at any time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a storage form of communication management information for each communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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

FIG. 3 is a control flow chart of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of communication management information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 MPU 12 MPU bus 13 Code decoding modulation / demodulation unit 14 Image signal input / output processing unit 15 Communication management information storage unit 16 Operation unit 17 Display

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takahiro Kikuchi 2-3-8 Shimo-Meguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Matsushita Densen Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Toshio Narushima 2-3-3 Shimo-Meguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo No. 8 Matsushita Transmission Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroaki Nouchi 2-3-8 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo Inside Matsushita Transmission Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for sequentially storing the communication status of each communication as communication management information at the end of facsimile communication, a display unit for displaying the communication management information stored in the storage unit, and the display unit for displaying the communication management information. Operation means for instructing calling of communication management information, and communication management information stored in the storage means is displayed on the display means in response to an operation input from the operation means, and after a certain period of time, the displayed communication management information is displayed. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a control unit that erases information.