JPH0556197A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make a routine sentence transmitting function more available by inputting a necessary item to a routine sentence previously stored in a routine sentence storage means at the respective times of transmission from an outside input means in accordance with necessity. CONSTITUTION:This equipment consists of CPU 3 controlling data handled at the time of controlling the whole facsimile equipment and a facsimile communication, a main memory 4 storing an instruction, etc., necessary for the operation of CPU 3, etc., a routine sentence storage memory 5 storing routine sentence data, a key input part 39, a display part 10, a tablet 11 used as a hand- written character input part and a character recognizing part 12, etc., recognizing a hand-written character inputted from the tablet 11. Then, the missing part of the routine sentence read out from the routine sentence storage memory 5 is compensated by a data input means inputting from the outside of the tablet 11, etc. Inputted data is built in the routine sentence read out from the routine sentence storage memory 5 with the action of CPU 3, synthesized and displayed on the display part 10 as the routine sentence for transmission.

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 having a function of transmitting pre-stored fixed phrases.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to improve the work efficiency of telecommunications office, a fixed sentence transmission function that can be registered in advance in a device for a fixed sentence out of the sentences necessary for communication and called and transmitted by a simple operation. Facsimile machines with are in practical use.

As a facsimile device of this type, there is a conventional one as shown in FIG. This facsimile machine includes a modem 32 that forms an interface with a telephone line 31, and a CP that controls the entire facsimile machine.
U33, a main memory 34 that is connected to the CPU 33 and stores various commands, a fixed sentence storage memory 35 that stores fixed sentence data, a document reading unit 37 that reads image data from a document, and a document reading unit. A recording unit 38 for holding the data of 37, an image memory 36 for storing the data read by the document reading unit 37 and the data to be recorded by the recording unit 38 in the form of image data,
The key input section 39 is used.

The standard text stored in the standard text storage memory 34 provided in the facsimile apparatus having the above configuration is read from the key input section 39 according to a predetermined procedure, and is independently used by the communication partner. Alternatively, it is added to the text read by the document reading unit 37 and transmitted to the communication partner.

[0005]

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional facsimile machine, several kinds of fixed phrases which are considered to be frequently used are stored in advance. However, these contents are fixed, and the contents of the other party are not fixed. Since the contents cannot be changed according to the situation, there was a problem that there were few opportunities to use it.

[0006] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile having a fixed text transmission function, which provides a user with convenience by inputting a part of a fixed text by handwriting or the like from a character input section according to a communication partner. To do.

[0007]

To achieve the above object, according to the present invention, in a facsimile apparatus, a storage unit for storing a fixed phrase lacking a part of information and an item designated by the stored fixed phrase are provided. , External input means for inputting,
And a control means for incorporating the input information into a position designated by a stored fixed phrase. Further, the external input means is a handwritten character input means, is provided with a character recognition means for recognizing the input character, and is provided with a control means for incorporating the recognized character information into a designated position of the fixed phrase. It

[0008]

In the above structure, when the use of the fixed phrase is requested according to a predetermined procedure from the key input unit, the control unit inputs the fixed phrase by the operator based on the information regarding the fixed phrase which is previously recorded in the fixed phrase storage unit. Displayable items on the display means. The operator inputs the information corresponding to the requested item by the character input means or the like according to the instruction displayed on the display means. In the case of a handwritten character, the character input through the recognition means is recognized. When the operator inputs all the input items required to complete the specified fixed phrase, the control unit creates image data of the document to be transmitted from the information input from the fixed form document and the information input from the character input unit. The operator can improve the use efficiency of the fixed phrase transmission function by inputting the minimum necessary items with the character input means for each transmission.

[0009]

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of an embodiment of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention. This facsimile apparatus includes a modem 2 (modulator / demodulator) that forms an interface with a telephone line 1, a CPU 3 that controls the entire facsimile apparatus and data handled in facsimile communication, and instructions necessary for the operation of the CPU 3 and the like. Is stored in the main memory 4, a fixed-form sentence storage memory 5 in which fixed-form sentence data is stored, an image memory 36 in which image data is stored, a document reading unit 37 that reads image data from a document, and the read image data. A recording unit 38 for recording, a key input unit 39, a display unit 10,
A tablet 11 used as a handwritten character input unit, a character recognition unit 12 that recognizes handwritten characters input from the tablet 11, a Kanji ROM 13 that stores image information of characters for character recognition, and an operator with respect to fixed phrases The user registration memory 14 stores the information registered by the user. Of these main constituent parts, those parts which are the same as those of the conventional example are designated by the same reference numerals, and a description thereof will be omitted. The operation of the facsimile apparatus configured as described above will be described based on the flowchart of the data input procedure of FIG. 2 using the fixed phrase example of FIG. 3 and the display unit display example of FIG. In this embodiment, the fixed phrase is composed of a fixed information part whose data content is predetermined and a user information part in which the operator can input data. The fixed information part is character code data and the user information part is an item. As the data indicating the name and the position to be inserted in the fixed phrase,
It is stored in the fixed phrase storage memory 5. When it is necessary to send a fixed phrase, the operator inputs a fixed phrase number from the key input unit 39 as shown in the flowchart of FIG.
The fixed phrase corresponding to the number input according to a predetermined procedure by the action of U3 or the like is read out on the display screen as shown in FIG. The CPU 3 reads the fixed phrase and
Items requiring input by the operator (in the example of the display screen of FIG. 3, items such as destination, date and time, sender, sender, etc.) are read from the user information portion of the fixed phrase memory 5. In order to supplement the necessary data of the read fixed phrase, as shown in FIG. 4, item names and operation contents are sequentially displayed. Following the operation of displaying this item name, the user registration memory 1
The data corresponding to the displayed item is searched from the pre-registered data of No. 4. By the search operation, the data registered in advance in the corresponding item is sequentially read out on the display screen, and if desired data can be retrieved, it is input as the data of the corresponding item on the display screen. If the required data is not registered in the user registration memory 14,
Items that can be input are displayed on the display screen 10, and the contents that prompt the input operation are displayed. The item data is input by handwriting character by character from the tablet 11.
When the handwritten character is input to the tablet 11, the handwritten character recognition unit 12 converts the input graphic information into the Chinese character R.
The data is recognized while being compared with the data of the OM 13 or the like, the recognized word is displayed on the display unit 10, and the input of the next word is prompted. When the input of the information on the item is completed, the CPU 3 displays on the display unit 10 whether or not to register the data, and asks the operator. When registering, by giving a registration command from the key input section 39, the data displayed on the display section 10 is registered in a predetermined place in the user registration memory 14 in association with the item name. On the other hand, when the previously registered item data exists in the user registration memory 14, the item data registered together with the item name is also displayed. When changing the displayed contents, data is input from the tablet as in the case of newly registering. Next, the CPU 3 searches for whether or not there are more items to be input. If there are remaining input items, the item data input means is repeated as described above. Regarding the fixed phrases with insufficient data read on the display unit 10 at the start,
When the data input of the necessary items is completed by the above operation,
The CPU 3 completes a sentence to be transmitted by inserting the data of the above-mentioned input items into the fixed sentence read from the fixed information portion of the fixed sentence storage memory 5 at a predetermined position. The synthesized text is expanded into image data and the image memory 3
Store in 6. When a facsimile transmission request is input from the key input unit 39, the combined fixed-form image data stored in the image memory 36 is converted into a data format defined by the facsimile communication standard, and then the modem 32 is used. Through the telephone line 31. In this way, by inputting the minimum required items from the character input means for each transmission, the use efficiency of the fixed text transmission function is improved. In the above embodiment, the handwriting input by the tablet is adopted as the input means for newly replenishing and registering the data from the outside, but by providing the alphabet key as the input section, the code input signal from the alphabet key is used as the data. With such a configuration, the load of character recognition can be reduced.

[0010]

As described above, in this facsimile apparatus, the necessary items for each transmission can be input from the external input means to the fixed text stored in the fixed text storage means in advance, as required. The fixed phrase transmission function can be made more highly utilized. Further, since it is possible to input from the handwritten character input means provided with the handwritten character recognition means as the external input means, it is possible to provide the fixed-form sentence transmitting function operator with high use efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a data input procedure of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a document example of a fixed phrase for explaining the above-described embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a display example of a display unit when the fixed phrase of FIG. 3 is used as an example.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of a conventional device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 CPU 4 Main memory 5 Fixed sentence storage memory 10 Display unit 11 Tablet 12 Handwritten character recognition unit 14 User registration memory 39 Key input unit

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In a facsimile apparatus having a function of transmitting a fixed text registered in advance in the apparatus, a storage unit for storing and holding a fixed text lacking a part of information, and a fixed portion read from the storage unit. The data input means for externally inputting the missing data, the display means for displaying the input data, and the control means for incorporating the input data into the standard sentence read from the storage means and synthesizing the data. A facsimile machine characterized by the following. 2. In a facsimile device having a function of transmitting a fixed phrase registered in advance in the device, a first storage means for storing and holding a fixed phrase lacking a part of information, and data for supplementing the fixed phrase in advance is held. Second storage means, and the first
Data input means for externally inputting data of the lacking portion of the fixed phrase read out from the storage means, display means for displaying contents of the second storage means or input data, and read out from the first storage means A facsimile apparatus, comprising: a control unit that incorporates the data read from the second storage unit or the data input from the outside into the fixed text that has been generated and synthesizes the data. 3. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the data input means is a handwritten character input means including a character recognition means.