JPH0556209A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To utilize a sound message as a message of the contents of image data by permitting a operator to listen to a sound signal transmitted in a same call as that for the image data during the recording of the image data. CONSTITUTION:The sound and image of an opponent are received through a sound receiving circuit 3 and a facsimile receiving circuit 5, respectively, via a line 1 and stored in a sound storage circuit 4 and an image storage circuit 6, respectively. A communication management circuit 2 stores the fact that these sound and image are received in the same call. A data reproducing control circuit 8, when it recognizes an image output request from the operator via an operation control circuit 7, asks the communication management circuit 2 for the presence or absence of sound data which are received in the same call as that for the image data of which the output request is made. When the sound data received in the same call are stored, the control circuit 8 controls a sound reproducing circuit 10 to reproduce the sound data and controls an image reproducing circuit 9 to reproduce the image data of which the output request was made.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus which reproduces received voice data and image data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional facsimile apparatus, when receiving voice data and image data from a partner, performs different reproduction operations to reproduce these voice data and image data separately.

[0003]

Since the above-mentioned conventional facsimile machine reproduces the voice data and the image data received from the same sender separately, it is related to the contents of the image data sent by the sender. Even if an attempt is made to notify the receiving side of the message using a voice signal, the receiving side operator has a problem that it is difficult to recognize the image data and the voice data in association with each other.

[0004]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a communication management mechanism for identifying and storing voice data and image data transmitted in the same call, and an image storage mechanism. When reproducing the stored image data, the data reproducing mechanism for reproducing the voice data transmitted by the same call as the image data is provided.

[0005]

When reproducing the received image data, the audio data transmitted in the same call as this image data is reproduced at the same time.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.
In the figure, 1 is a line, 2 is a communication management circuit, 3 is a voice receiving circuit, 4 is a voice storing circuit, 5 is a facsimile receiving circuit, 6 is an image storing circuit, 7 is an operation control circuit, and 8 is a data reproduction control circuit. , 9 is an image reproducing circuit, 10 is an audio reproducing circuit, a is an image signal, and b is an audio signal.

When a call signal arrives at this facsimile apparatus via the line 1, the communication management circuit 2 makes the line 1
The voice receiving circuit 3
To start. The activated voice receiving circuit 3 receives a voice signal transmitted from the other party's telephone or the like via the closed line 1, converts the received voice signal into voice data, and outputs the voice storage circuit 4 Remember.

Then, the communication management circuit 2 activates the facsimile receiving circuit 5. The activated facsimile receiving circuit 5 receives the image data transmitted from the facsimile device of the same destination as the above via the line 1, and stores the received image data in the image storage circuit 6.
Then, when the reception of a series of image data is completed, the facsimile reception circuit 5 notifies the communication management circuit 2 of that fact.

When the communication management circuit 2 recognizes that a series of communication has been completed, the line 1 is opened, and the voice data stored in the voice storage circuit 4 and the image data stored in the image storage circuit 6 are released. Remember that it was received on the same call.

At this time, when the operator operates the operation control circuit 7 in the facsimile apparatus to make an output request for the image data received above, the operation control circuit 7 outputs the image data by the operator. The fact that the request has been made is transmitted to the data reproduction control circuit 8. Then, the communication management circuit 2 is inquired whether or not there is audio data corresponding to the image data for which the image data output request is made.

The communication management circuit 2 searches the audio data corresponding to the image data, and notifies the data reproduction control circuit 8 of the presence or absence of the audio data and the audio data identifier. The data reproduction control circuit 8 requests the image reproduction circuit 9 to reproduce the image data requested to be output, and also requests the audio reproduction circuit 10 to reproduce the audio data corresponding to the image data to be reproduced.

In this way, the image reproduction circuit 9 reads the image data from the image storage circuit 6 and reproduces it, and outputs the reproduced image signal a. At the same time, the audio reproduction circuit 10
Reads audio data from the audio storage circuit 4, reproduces the audio data, and outputs the reproduced audio signal b.

As described above, after receiving the voice data and the image data transmitted in the same call, they are reproduced at the same time, and while the image data is being output to the storage paper, the voice data corresponding to the voice data and the image data are reproduced. Is converted into a voice signal, and the voice signal is made to be heard by the operator, so that the voice data and the image data, which have been difficult to identify in the past, can be easily associated with each other. As a result, a voice message from the telephone or the like can be used as a message regarding the content of the image data.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the received image data is reproduced, the voice data transmitted by the same call as this image data is reproduced at the same time. The person can easily recognize the image data and the audio data in association with each other.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 line 2 communication management circuit 3 voice receiving circuit 4 voice storage circuit 5 facsimile receiving circuit 6 image storage circuit 7 operation control circuit 8 data playback control circuit 9 image playback circuit 10 voice playback circuit a image signal b voice signal

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A voice receiving mechanism for receiving a voice signal transmitted from a telephone or the like and converting it into voice data, a voice storing mechanism for temporarily storing the received voice data, and a voice data stored in the voice storing mechanism. A voice reproducing mechanism for reproducing the image data, a facsimile receiving mechanism for receiving the image data transmitted from the facsimile device, an image storing mechanism for temporarily storing the received image data, and the image data stored in the image storing mechanism. In a facsimile apparatus equipped with an image reproducing mechanism for outputting to a recording sheet, a communication management mechanism for discriminating and storing voice data and image data transmitted by the same call And a data reproducing mechanism for reproducing audio data transmitted by the same call as the image data when reproducing the image data. Akushimiri apparatus.