JPH05276284A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To add a preliminarily registered message to picture information according to a transmission date, and transmit it, at the time of adding the message to a transmission original at a transmission side. CONSTITUTION:An addition designated date 3 and message information 4 to be added are registered in a message storage part 2 by making them correspond to each other by a message registering part 3. A date managing part 5 manages a present date 6. When the addition designated date 3 is matched with the present date 6 at the time of transmitting an original, a date comparing part 7 communicates the result to a message retrieving part 8. The message retrieving part 8 selects the corresponding message information 4 from the message storage part 2, and transfers it to an encoding part 9. The encoding part 9 encodes the message information 4 from the message retrieving part 8, outputs it, encodes the picture information read from a transmission original 10 by a picture reading part 11, and outputs it. A communication control part 12 transmits the information outputted from the encoding part 9 to a reception side device 13 after setting a line with the reception side device.

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 message information to a transmission original and transmits it.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional facsimile apparatus, when a manuscript to which message information is added is transmitted, an operator makes a setting for adding message information each time it is transmitted.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus, when a message is added to the transmission original, the work of adding the message must be performed at the time of transmitting the message. Moreover, since the contents of the message were limited to fixed and very general items, it was not possible to add a message including a greeting of the season.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In a facsimile apparatus of the present invention, a message registered in advance is added to an original and transmitted, and a date management unit for managing the current date and an addition designation to be added to the message. It has a message storage unit that stores the date as the message information, a date comparison unit that compares the current date with the additional designation date, and a message search unit that retrieves the corresponding message when the dates match.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

An addition designation date 3 to be added to the message in the message storage unit 2 by the operation designation of the message registration unit 1
And the message information 4 to be added are registered in association with each other. The date management unit 5 manages and outputs the current date 6. The date comparison unit 7 notifies the message search unit 8 if the addition designated date 3 and the current date 6 match at the time of transmission. The message search unit 8 selects the message information 4 corresponding to the addition designated date from the message storage unit 2 and passes it to the encoding unit 9.

The encoding unit 9 encodes and outputs the message information 4 from the message retrieval unit 8 and then encodes the image information from the document reading unit 11 read from the transmission document 10 to the communication control unit 12. Output. Communication control unit 12
After setting the line with the receiving side device 13, the encoding unit 9
The output information is transmitted to the receiving side device 13.

[0008]

As described above, according to the present invention, the date management section for managing the current date, the message storage section for storing the message information corresponding to the designated date to which the message is added, the current date and the additional designation. By having a date comparison unit that compares the date and a message search unit that retrieves the corresponding message when the dates match, the message is automatically added to all the originals to be sent on the registered date and sent. As a result, a greeting text according to the event or anniversary can be automatically added as a message to the transmitted document to be sent at the event or various anniversaries, and the effect of preventing forgetting to add the message is obtained. Moreover, since the addition can be automatically performed, there is an effect that the transmission operation can be saved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Message Registration Section 2 Message Storage Section 3 Additional Designated Date 4 Message Information 5 Date Management Section 6 Current Date 7 Date Comparison Section 8 Message Search Section 9 Encoding Section 10 Transmission Manuscript 11 Original Reading Section 12 Communication Control Section 13 Receiver Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a facsimile apparatus for adding a pre-registered message to an original and transmitting the original, a message management unit for managing the current date and a specified date added to the message are stored as message information in association with each other. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a unit, a date comparison unit that compares the present date and the additional designated date, and a message search unit that retrieves a corresponding message when the dates match.