JPH05236181A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To miniaturize the entire equipment without deterioration in the operability and picture recognition performance by employing a liquid crystal projector being a light radiation type image forming display method in place of a display section and a print section. CONSTITUTION:A white and black element is used for a small sized transparent LCD display element 10 and a light source lamp 11 used to allow a light to cast on a rear side of a picture of the LCD display element 10, is provided and a focus of a lens 12 to magnify the projected picture is adjusted manually or automatically with a focus device. Then, data received via a telephone line and a reception section 6 are stored inside a memory 7 and the data are displayed on an LCD display element 10 being a display section as picture data. Moreover, a light is emitted from the rear side of the LCD display element 10 by the light source lamp 11. Thus, the light (picture) passing through the LCD display element 10 is magnified by the lens 12 and the picture data are visually confirmed by projecting the magnified light and matching the focus.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile for transmitting and receiving image data using a telephone line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in facsimiles which transmit and receive image data using a telephone line, a facsimile machine with a display has appeared, which displays a received image on a display unit such as an LCD without printing it on paper for the purpose of saving received paper. I'm doing it. The conventional technique will be described with reference to this facsimile with a display.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a conventional facsimile machine with a display, and FIG. 5 is a perspective view thereof. In FIGS. 4 and 5, 1 is an LCD display unit for displaying an image received by a facsimile, 2 is an operation unit for operating the facsimile apparatus, 3 is a substrate unit on which a control circuit is realized, and 4 is an exterior unit.

The operation of the conventional facsimile machine with a display constructed as above will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG.

In FIG. 6, 5 is a telephone line for transmitting and receiving facsimile data, 6 is a receiving unit for receiving the facsimile data sent from the telephone line 5, 7 is a memory unit for accumulating the received image data, and 8 is a memory. It is a display unit for displaying the image data accumulated in the unit 7, and corresponds to the LCD display unit 1. Reference numeral 9 is a control unit for controlling each of the above blocks.

First, in response to an outgoing call from the transmitting side, the facsimile receiving unit 6 receives the incoming facsimile data after the incoming call, and the received facsimile data is stored in the memory unit 7.
Stored in. After the reception is completed, the contents of the memory unit 7 are displayed on the display unit 8, and the user can check the received data without looking at the display unit 8 without printing it. Illustration and description of a transmission system not directly related to the present invention will be omitted.

[0007]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional configuration, in order to allow the user to confirm the received contents in the received data display unit, the display unit has a size substantially the same as that of the transmission original or a display unit of a small size. Even if is used, it is necessary to confirm the contents of transmission by partially enlarging the display or moving the screen appropriately, which significantly reduces the operability. Due to this, conventionally, an extremely small display unit cannot be used. Therefore, the size of the facsimile machine with display itself is limited by the display unit even if the circuit board is miniaturized by high-density implementation technology such as surface implementation technology. Had a problem that it became difficult.

On the other hand, in a well-known facsimile apparatus which prints on a sheet of paper and outputs it, in order for the user to confirm the received contents, the sheet is made to have substantially the same size as the original to be transmitted, or the sheet is reduced in size and printed. In the former case, there is a problem that the device cannot be made smaller than the paper size, and in the latter case, there is a limit to downsizing the paper in order to recognize the image data, and it is impossible to downsize the device extremely. was there.

[0009]

In order to solve the above problems, a liquid crystal projector which is a light irradiation type image forming display method is used instead of the conventional display section and printing section.

[0010]

With this configuration, the present apparatus can irradiate the image data stored in the memory unit at any time and irradiate it at any place (for example, paper or a wall), so that the size of the display unit or the paper size can be visually confirmed. The facsimile device can be made extremely compact without being restricted by the above, while maintaining good operability and image recognition.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view thereof.

In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, reference numeral 10 denotes a small transmissive LCD display element, and a black and white element is used in this embodiment. Reference numeral 11 is a light source lamp for illuminating the image on the LCD display element 10 from the back side, and 12 is a lens for enlarging the projected image, which is configured to be capable of manual or automatic focus adjustment by a focusing device (not shown). ing. Reference numeral 14 is a circuit board on which a control circuit is embodied, 15 is an exterior portion, and 16 is an operation portion for operating the present apparatus. Reference numeral 17 is a connector for connecting to the telephone line 5.

Next, the operation of the facsimile apparatus configured as described above will be described. The data received via the telephone line 5 and the receiving unit 6 is stored in the memory 7. This data is displayed on the LCD display element 1 which is the display unit 8.
0 is displayed as image data. Light is emitted from the light source lamp 12 from the back surface of the LCD display element 10. L
The light (image) that has passed through the CD display element 10 is magnified by the lens 12, and the magnified light is projected and focused so that image data can be visually recognized.

The usage pattern will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows how the user confirms the received image by the facsimile apparatus of this embodiment. In this way, the user projects the received facsimile image stored in the memory of the facsimile device on a sheet and confirms it. Further, in this embodiment, an ultra-compact L inside the black and white display body is used.
Although an image of a CD display element is used, it is clear that color display can be easily performed.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, the facsimile apparatus which has been conventionally restricted by the size of the display section and the paper can visually check the received data without deteriorating the operability and the image recognizability. Since the entire apparatus can be miniaturized, it is possible to provide an extremely excellent facsimile apparatus that can realize portable products and the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view of a usage pattern of the facsimile apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a conventional facsimile machine with a display.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the facsimile machine with the display.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the facsimile machine with the display.

[Explanation of symbols]

 6 Facsimile Data Receiving Section 7 Memory Section 8 Display Section 9 Control Section 10 LCD Display Element 11 Light Source Lamp 12 Lens 14 Circuit Board 15 Exterior Section 16 Operating Section 17 Connector

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A memory section having a receiving section for receiving facsimile image data using a telephone line, a memory section for storing the received image data, and a control section for controlling a series of operations from reception to display. A facsimile machine comprising a light irradiation type image forming and displaying means as means for visually confirming the image data stored in the facsimile apparatus.