JPH0548780A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To secure the excellent state of a original at a receiving station by repeated broadcasting while maintaining the advantages of the addition of sender information by adding no sender information when repeated broadcating transmission is performed. CONSTITUTION:When normal reception is performed, an image received from a communication device 3 is sent to a recording device 4. When repeating is indicated, the received image is stored in an image memory 7. A subsequent transmission attribute setting a repeating address is set in the storage image file and a return to a stand by state is made. At the time of transmission, a sent file is retrieved in the stand-by state and the transmission attribute is checked. A TTI mode is set to OFF when the transmission attribute indicates the repeated broadcasting or to ON in other cases. Then calling to the address set in the file is performed; when the TTI mode is ON, the sender information is added and when OFF, the file is sent without adding the sender information. Consequently, an increase in the length of the received image can be evaded.

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 function of performing relay broadcast.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a facsimile apparatus having an image memory has been known which has a relay broadcast function of receiving an image sent from another station in an image memory and transmitting the image to a plurality of stations. There is.

In addition, when transmitting an image, it is also known to add sender information such as the name and telephone number of the sender to the tip of the image for transmission.

[0004]

By the way, since the addition of the sender information is effective for knowing the name and telephone number of the sender, recently, most facsimile machines have been used. If this is done at the time of relay broadcasting, there is a drawback that the source information of the relay station is added to the source information added by the original transmitting station, and the image of the first page becomes long.

Therefore, for example, when the receiving apparatus uses cut sheets as recording sheets, the image for one page is originally divided into two, or in the worst case, the trailing edge of the image is missing. There is a risk of doing it.

Further, even when the receiving device uses roll paper, a long received image has a disadvantage that it is inconvenient in filing and handling.

Particularly, as shown in FIG. 4, the relay has two stages and three.
The larger the number, the larger it becomes, which promotes the above-mentioned problems.

On the other hand, in the repeater, in order to avoid the above problems, the addition of the sender information is stopped at all, which causes another problem that the receiver does not know the sender during normal transmission. ..

It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus which can maintain a good original state at a receiving station by relay broadcasting while maintaining the advantage of adding sender information. ..

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a facsimile apparatus having a function of performing relay broadcast and a function of adding sender information to the tip of a transmission image and transmitting the same, as a relay station. When performing the above, the source information is not added, and in other transmissions, the source information is added. So in normal transmission,
Source information can be obtained on the receiving side, and also in relay broadcast transmission, the source information of the first transmitting station can be obtained on the receiving side, and the received image can be obtained by a plurality of source information. You can avoid getting longer.

[0011]

1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

This facsimile apparatus includes a CPU 1 for controlling the entire apparatus, a reading apparatus 2 for reading an original and converting it into an electric signal, a modulation / demodulation circuit and a network control circuit for exchanging transmission / reception data with a partner apparatus via a line. A communication device 3 including a recording device 4 for outputting an image on a recording paper,
A font generator 5 that stores font data for expanding source information into an image, an image memory 7 that stores image data, a RAM 8 used as a work area of the CPU 1, and a ROM 9 that stores a control program for the CPU 1. , CPU 1 and a CPU bus 6 connecting each unit.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation at the time of reception in this facsimile apparatus.

First, at the time of reception, it is determined whether the reception mode is the relay instruction or the normal reception (S1).
Then, in the case of normal reception, the process proceeds to S3, and recording paper reception for transferring and recording the received image received from the communication device 3 to the recording device 4 is performed.

In the case of a relay instruction, the process proceeds to S2,
Memory reception for accumulating the received image in the image memory 7 is performed.
Then, when the memory reception is completed, a relay destination is set in the accumulated image file (S4), a transmission attribute is further set as a relay broadcast file (S5), and the process returns to the standby state.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the operation at the time of transmission in this facsimile apparatus.

First, the transmission file is searched in the standby state (S6), and when the file to be transmitted is found, the transmission attribute is checked (S7). Here, if the transmission attribute is relay broadcast, the TTI mode is set to OFF in S9, and in other cases, the TTI mode is set to ON in S8. The TTI mode is a mode in which sender information is added for transmission.

When the TTI mode is set,
Call the destination set in the file (S1
0), check the above-mentioned TTI mode (S11),
When the TTI mode is ON, sender information such as the sender's telephone number and name is added to the tip of the transmitted image (S12), and the image of the first page is transmitted (S13). If the TTI mode is OFF, the image of the first page is transmitted without adding the sender information (S13).

Then, when the transmission of the first page is completed, it is judged whether or not there is a next page (S14).
The process returns to S13 to continue the transmission. If there is no next page, the transmission is ended and the process returns to the standby state. In this way, all transmission files are transmitted.

According to the above procedure, it is possible to add the sender information only during normal transmission without adding the sender information during the relay broadcast.

In the above embodiment, the sender information is always added in addition to the relay broadcast, but this allows the TTI mode to be turned on or off according to the user's instruction. May be.

Further, at the time of the above-mentioned relay broadcast, the information of the relay station does not remain at all in the image received by the receiving station. Therefore, in order to clarify the route and time when the relay broadcast is performed, the original image is not displayed. Separately, create one independent page with a relay,
It is also possible to provide a function of writing information of the repeater on the page and adding the information before or after the transmission image to transmit.

[0023]

According to the present invention, since the transmission is performed without adding the transmission source information at the time of relay broadcasting, the transmission of the transmission source information at the tip of the image is not overlapped at the receiving end and the received image is displayed. It has the effect of avoiding the lengthening.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a receiving operation of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a transmission operation of the above embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a received image to which a plurality of source information is added by a conventional relay broadcast.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... CPU, 2 ... reading device, 3 ... communication device, 4 ... recording device, 5 ... font generator, 6 ... CPU bus, 7 ... image memory, 8 ... RAM, 9 ... ROM.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a facsimile apparatus having a function of performing relay broadcast and a function of adding sender information to the front end of a transmission image and transmitting the same, in the case of performing relay broadcast transmission as a relay station, the sender Facsimile machine characterized by not adding information.