JPH0583506A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare facsimile coded data by developing images while matching to the specification of a FAX at the other party by storing the equipment information of the FAX at the party. CONSTITUTION:This facsimile equipment is provided with an equipment information recorder 108 to store the facsimile equipment information such as the facsimile number or recording width of the FAX at the destination to transmit data, and a FAX/editor 107 is provided to receive the facsimile equipment information of the other party, to store this equipment information in the equipment information storage device 108 in the case of transmitting sentences to the facsimile equipment of the communicating party when the facsimile equipment information of the other party is not stored in the equipment information storage device 108 or when the equipment information is different, and to change image data corresponding to the specification of the facsimile equipment at the communicating party based on the equipment information stored in the equipment information storage device 108.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a text editing function and a facsimile function.
Abbreviated. In more detail, when a sentence created by editing a sentence is transmitted to the partner FAX by using the FAX function, by storing the device information of the partner FAX, The present invention relates to a facsimile device that develops a sentence into image data so as to meet specifications and transmits the image data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art If a fax is transmitted while a text is expanded into image data and the image data is encoded into facsimile encoded data, the timing of the fax transmission cannot be met in time. Therefore, conventionally, in a facsimile apparatus having a text editing function and a FAX function, when a text is transmitted to a partner FAX, the text is previously developed into image data and encoded into facsimile encoded data before the FAX line is connected. Remember, then F
Means are provided for connecting the AX line and transmitting the facsimile encoded data.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, since the device information of the partner FAX is sent from the partner FAX after connecting the FAX line, the facsimile encoding which is created and stored in advance is stored. Data is FA
There is a case where the specifications of X do not meet (for example, the facsimile encoded data is B4 size and the specifications of the partner FAX indicate A4 size). In that case, either give up the transmission, or create the facsimile encoded data that has been created in advance according to various FAX specifications as much as possible, and send it from the other party when the FAX line is connected. The facsimile coded data suitable for the incoming device information is selected and transmitted to the partner FAX. However, in the former case, transmission cannot be performed, and in the latter case, facsimile coded data conforming to various specifications is created, so that a large capacity facsimile coded data storage device is required.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and stores device information of a partner FAX in advance, develops a text image based on the device information, and transmits the image. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus having a function of transmitting a text to a partner FAX without having a storage device having a capacity.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems by reading a document into image data and reading the image data into facsimile coded data. Or
Encoding means for encoding the facsimile encoded data into the original image data, communication means for transmitting the facsimile encoded data to the other facsimile, and receiving the facsimile encoded data from the other facsimile, and key-in characters or commands Key input means, a key code conversion means for converting the input key data into a character code or a command code, and a facsimile control for controlling the transmission / reception of the facsimile by the command code or editing the text by the character code or the command code. An editing means, a display means for displaying the editing result of the character code and the like, and a text storing means for storing the editing result of the character code together with the format information,
The character code stored in the text storage means is expanded by the facsimile control / editing means based on the format information, and the image data storage means for storing the expanded image data, the facsimile number of the destination to be transmitted, the recording width,
A device information recording unit for storing facsimile device information such as recording length and minimum scanning line time is provided, and the facsimile control / editing unit does not store the device information of the partner facsimile in the device information storage unit, or When the sentences are transmitted to the other facsimile when the device information is different, the device information of the other facsimile is received, the device information is stored in the device information storage means, and the device information stored in the device information storage means is received. It is configured to change the image data so as to meet the specifications of the facsimile of the other party.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the device information recording means stores the facsimile number of the other party to be transmitted, the facsimile device information such as the recording width, the recording length, and the minimum scanning line time.

Further, when the facsimile control / editing means does not store the device information of the partner facsimile in the device information storage means or the device information is different, when transmitting a sentence to the partner facsimile, the device of the partner facsimile The information is received and the device information is stored in the device information storage means.

Further, the facsimile control / editing means is
The image data is changed based on the device information stored in the device information storage unit so as to meet the specifications of the facsimile of the other party.

[0009]

EXAMPLE An example of the present invention will be described below.
FIG. 1 shows a typical block diagram of a facsimile apparatus having an editing function and a FAX function. The configuration of the present embodiment is a reading device for reading a document as image data.
101, an encoding unit 102 for encoding the read image data into facsimile encoded data, encoding the encoded image data into original image data, and transmitting the encoded facsimile data to a destination facsimile, or a destination facsimile. A communication device 103 for receiving facsimile encoded data, a printing device 104 for printing image data, a key input device 105 for keying in characters or commands, and converting the input key data into character codes or command codes. A key code conversion means 106, a facsimile control / editing means (hereinafter, abbreviated as FAX / editing device 107) for controlling transmission / reception of a facsimile by a command code, and editing a text by a character code or a command code, and a partner for transmission. Previous fax number, recording width, recording length, minimum scan line time A device information storage device 108 for storing facsimile device information such as a display device, a display device 109 for displaying a character code edit result, and a text storage device 110 for storing the character code edit result together with format information.
And an image data storage device for expanding the character code stored in the text storage means by the FAX / editing device 107 based on the format information and storing the expanded image data.
It consists of 111.

The operation of the facsimile apparatus having the above construction will be described below. The image data read from the reading device 101 is encoded into facsimile encoded data by the facsimile encoding means 102 via the FAX / editing device 107 and transmitted to the partner FAX via the communication device 103.
This operation is the same as that of a conventional facsimile machine.

Further, the key data input from the key input device 105 is converted into a character code by the key code conversion means 106 and passed to the FAX / editing device 107. FAX
/ Editing device 107 edits the text and stores the result in text storage device 110. Further, format information is also input from the key input device 105, and F information is input via the key code conversion means 106.
It is passed to the AX / editing device 107 and stored in the sentence storage device 110 together with the sentence (the situation is shown in FIG. 2). next,
When the key data for performing the FAX transmission of the text is input from the key input device 105, the key code conversion means 106 converts it into a FAX transmission instruction and sends it to the FAX / editing device 107.
Upon receiving the FAX transmission instruction, the FAX / editing device 107 reads out a character code from the text storage device 110 and develops it into image data according to the format information stored together with the character code in the text storage device 110, and the image data storage device.
It is stored in 111 (the state is shown in FIG. 3). When developing the image data, the FAX / editing device 107 compares the FAX number of the partner with the partner FAX number stored in the device information storage device 108, and if there is no corresponding FAX number,
Alternatively, when the corresponding FAX number exists but the device information is not stored, the image data is expanded according to the format information as it is. Furthermore, the corresponding FAX
If there is no number, F will be displayed in the empty area of the device information storage device 108.
Register the AX number and clear the device information of the FAX number.

Next, the FAX / editing device 107 is a communication device.
103 automatically calls the other party's facsimile machine and connects the line to the other party. And FAX / editing device
107 receives the device information from the partner FAX, and stores the received device information in the device information storage device 108 at the device information portion of the corresponding FAX number (the state is shown in FIGS. 5A to 5C). .. In that case, if the format information does not fit in the received device information, disconnect the line once connected, or
With the line connected, change the image data so that it is within the range of the device information of the other party. Image storage 11
If the image data stored in 1 corresponds to the device information of the other party, the image data is directly encoded into the facsimile encoded data by the facsimile encoding means 102, and the other party FAX is transmitted through the communication device 103. Send to.

On the other hand, the FAX number is the device information storage device 108.
And the device information is stored when the line with the other FAX was connected before, the FAX / editing device
107 compares the device information with the format information, and determines whether the format information is within the recording paper width size of the device information of the other party. Here, if the image data is stored within the width of the recording paper of the other party, the image data of the image storage device 111 is left as it is. If the format information does not fit within the recording paper width size of the device information, the image data is changed so as to fit within the device information of the other party. For example, if the text of the text format information is B4 size and the recording paper width size of the other party's device information is A4 size, the image data is set so that the image expansion of the text fits within the recording paper width size of the device information. change. After that, the FAX / editing device 107 encodes the image data into the facsimile encoded data through the facsimile encoding means and stores it in the image data storage device 111. This is shown in FIG. And F
The AX / editing device 107 automatically calls the partner facsimile device by the communication device 103 or manually calls the partner facsimile device to connect the line to the partner.

The FAX number is the device information storage device 108.
Even if it exists in the
The received device information is compared with the device information already stored in the device information storage device 108. If the device information does not match, it means that there is the corresponding FAX number but the device information is not stored. Perform similar processing.

In the above embodiment, the fax / editing device 107
Develops the character code into image data based on the format information, stores it in the image data storage device 111 once, and stores the image data stored in the image data storage device 111 within the range of the device information of the partner facsimile machine. Had been changed to. However, the present invention
The invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and when the character code is expanded into image data based on the format information, the image data may be changed so as to be included in the device information of the partner facsimile machine.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the facsimile control / editing means transmits the text to the facsimile of the other party when the device information of the other facsimile is not stored in the device information storing means, By receiving the device information of the facsimile and storing the device information in the device information storage means, it is possible to eliminate communication failure due to a difference in the device information of the partner FAX when transmitting to the partner FAX from the next time.

Further, by storing the device information of the partner FAX, when the sentence created by text editing is FAX-transmitted to the partner FAX, the sentence is changed into image data in advance in accordance with the device information of the partner FAX. This eliminates the need for a large-capacity image data storage device due to a communication failure due to a difference in device information of the other FAX when transmitting to the other FAX or an image expansion according to the device information of various specifications.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a reference diagram showing the contents of text data stored in a document storage device.

FIG. 3 is a reference diagram showing contents of image data stored in an image data storage device.

FIG. 4 is a reference diagram showing contents of image data and facsimile encoded data stored in an image data storage device.

FIG. 5 is a reference diagram showing how a FAX number and device information stored in a device information storage device are added and changed.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 reading device 102 encoding device 103 communication device 104 printing device 105 key input device 106 key code conversion device 107 FAX / editing device (facsimile control / editing device) 108 device information recording device 109 display device 110 text storage device 111 image data storage apparatus

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A reading unit for reading an original as image data, and an encoding unit for encoding the read image data into facsimile encoded data or encoding the facsimile encoded data into original image data.
Communication means for transmitting the facsimile coded data to the other party's facsimile and receiving the facsimile coded data from the other party's facsimile, key input means for inputting characters or commands by key, and inputting the key data as character code or command code Key code converting means for converting, facsimile transmission / reception by command code to control transmission / reception of facsimile, and text control or editing means for editing text by command code, display means for displaying the result of character code editing, etc. A text storage means for storing the edited result of the code together with the format information, and an image data storage for expanding the character code stored in the text storage means by the facsimile control / editing means based on the format information and storing the expanded image data. Means and printing hand to print the image data In a facsimile apparatus having, a facsimile number of a destination of transmission, a device information recording unit for storing facsimile device information such as recording width, recording length, minimum scanning line time, and the like, wherein the facsimile control / editing unit, When the device information of the partner facsimile is not stored in the device information storage means or the device information is different, when sending a sentence to the partner facsimile, the device information of the partner facsimile is received and the device information is stored in the device information storage device. A facsimile machine, characterized in that the facsimile machine is configured to store the image data in the information storage means and to change the image data so as to meet the specifications of the partner facsimile machine based on the device information stored in the device information storage means.