JPH0520032Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (Field of industrial application) This invention relates to a facsimile device, and in particular, it is designed to allow information such as the telephone number of the calling party to be written in barcodes on the recording paper of the receiving party. The present invention relates to a facsimile device.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, when sending a document using a facsimile device, by registering the own station in the facsimile device, the sending date, time, and sender are written on the top of the receiver's recording paper. , phone number, page number, etc.

According to this conventional device, since the above-mentioned items are recorded and remain on the recording paper of the receiving side, the recipient does not have to write the above-mentioned items on the recording paper himself, which is very convenient. In particular, in the case of automatic reception, the sent manuscript information is automatically received, so if the above information is not automatically recorded, it will be necessary to know who the sender is, what day and what time the message was received. There may be cases where the above information is not known, so it is essential to have a function to automatically record the above information on the receiver's recording paper.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) The above-mentioned conventional technology had the following problems.

However, when the receiving side sends the received information back to the sender, it is necessary to dial the telephone number recorded on the receiving recording paper, which is a time-consuming problem.

For example, when correcting correspondence between a home and a cram school using facsimile, the cram school corrects the answer sheets sent from each home and then dials each home to check the corrected answers. There were problems in that answer sheets had to be sent by facsimile, which required more manpower, and if the dialing was incorrect, it could not reach the recipient correctly.

Therefore, the present inventor devised a facsimile device that allows information such as the sender's telephone number to be recorded in the margin of the receiver's recording paper using a bar code. To record a barcode on recording paper on the receiving side, attach a sticker with a barcode printed on it to the document paper on the sending side and send it by facsimile.
Possible methods include writing a barcode by hand on the manuscript in advance, or creating a manuscript format with the barcode printed on it, but all of these methods are time-consuming and expensive. There was a problem.

The purpose of this invention is to eliminate the problems of the prior art described above, and to enable dialing information such as the sender's telephone number to be written in barcodes on the receiving side's recording paper without placing any burden on the sending side. To provide facsimile equipment.

(Means and operations for solving the problems) FIG. 1 shows a functional block diagram of the present invention. In the figure a, 31 is a barcode addition instruction means;
Reference numeral 32 indicates bar code conversion means, and reference numeral 33 indicates telephone number holding means for the own station. Barcode addition instruction means 3
1, when an instruction to add a barcode is issued, the telephone number of the own office is read out from the telephone number holding means 33 of the own office, converted into barcode information by the barcode conversion means 32, and transmitted. It can be done.

Figure b shows another functional block diagram of the present invention.
Reference numeral 34 indicates a sender's telephone number receiving means, and other symbols are the same as or equivalent to those in FIG. When the barcode addition instruction means 31 issues an instruction to add a barcode, the sender's telephone number sent from the sender in the TSI code is input to the barcode conversion means 32, and the barcode information is is converted to After that, it is sent to the printer section and copied.

(Example) The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, 1 is a document presence/absence detector, 2 is a start key, 3 is a barcode addition request key, 4 is a microcomputer (MPU), 5 is a barcode converter, 6 is a ROM, 7 is a RAM, and 8 is a a modem (modem); and 9 a communication circuit network (NCU).
Here, the barcode converter 5 has a function of converting information such as a telephone number into barcode information.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows a flowchart showing the operation of the MPU 4.

First, the MPU4 places a document on the document table,
It is determined whether a request for transmission has been made (step S1). Next, barcode addition request key 3
A judgment is made as to whether or not it has been turned on (step S2). When there is a request to add a barcode, the process advances to step S3, and when there is no request for addition, the process advances to step S4.

In step S3, information such as the telephone number of the own station is converted into barcode information, and the barcode information is further converted into image information and transmitted. Specifically, information such as the telephone number of the own station is registered in advance in RAM 7, and a table for converting information such as the telephone number into barcode information is stored in ROM 6. Information such as the telephone number of the station is read out, the table in the ROM 6 is referred to, and the information is converted into barcode information. The converted barcode information is converted to image information, and once
After being stored in a buffer such as RAM 7, it is transmitted before the document information described below. In step S4, the document information is transmitted to the partner station.

Figure 4 shows an example of the received recording paper, with 10
10a is a recording paper, 10a is a barcode, and 10b is original information. According to this embodiment, a bar code representing the sender's telephone number is recorded on the leading edge of the recording paper, so when the receiver sends the recording paper back to the sender, the recording paper is placed on the document table of the facsimile machine. If the recipient's phone number is automatically dialed using the barcode, the recipient's phone number is automatically sent without the operator having to dial the number.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

This embodiment is realized by performing an operation for adding a barcode from a panel when the receiving side wants to add a barcode indicating information such as a sender's telephone number to received information.

In the facsimile device shown in FIG.
A reception request is sent to the MPU 23 via the communication network 21.
Once entered, the MPU 23 determines whether or not an operation to add a barcode has been performed from the panel. When it is determined that a barcode should be added, the sender's information code data (for example, the sender's telephone number) included in the protocol code TSI is referred to the barcode table registered in the ROM 24, and the barcode is added. Convert to code. That is, since the code TSI includes information such as the sender's telephone number, a table for converting information such as the telephone number into barcode information is stored.
By accessing the ROM, information such as a telephone number contained in the code TSI is converted into barcode image information.

Next, the image information of the barcode and the image information of the document are sent to the printing section 27, and a print as shown in FIG. 4 is output.

For users of the present invention, for example, when correcting correspondence between a cram school and home using facsimile, if the facsimile phone number of each home is written on the answer sheet for correspondence correction, then The cram school is very convenient because after correction, it can be sent to each family's facsimile phone number without having to dial it.

(Effect of the invention) Dial information such as the sender's telephone number is recorded in barcodes on the received recording paper, so
When the received information is sent back to the sender, there is no need to dial the telephone number of the other party, which is convenient.

Another advantage is that even if the barcode recorded on the recording paper is cut out and pasted onto another document, it can be automatically sent to the other party in the same way as described above.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention, Figure 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 3 is the same as that of Figure 2.
A flowchart to explain the operation of the MPU,
FIG. 4 shows an example of printed information, and FIG. 5 shows a configuration diagram of another embodiment of the present invention. 31... Instructing means for adding a barcode, 32...
Barcode conversion means.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claim for Utility Model Registration] (1) A facsimile device having both transmitting and receiving functions, which is equipped with means for instructing the addition of a barcode and means for converting dialing information such as a telephone number of the sending facsimile device into a barcode. A facsimile device characterized in that a printout with a barcode written thereon is outputted on the receiving side, and a call can be made using the barcode. (2) The facsimile device according to claim 1 of the above-mentioned utility model registration claim, wherein dial information such as a telephone number of the sender facsimile device is converted into a bar code and outputted at the time of transmission. (3) The facsimile device according to claim 1, wherein dial information such as a telephone number of the sender facsimile device is converted into a bar code when receiving the facsimile device.