JPH06189148A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable confidential transmission by preparing a confidential part while making the color different when preparing an original to be transmitted, and writing a recipient name and the existence of the confidential part at a public part. CONSTITUTION:R, G and B signals from a color scanner 1 are fetched into a CPU 2, the colors of images are discriminated and when there is the designated color of the previously set confidential part, data are prepared with public part image data as white picture elements and the confidential part as black picture elements. Next, these data are stored in an image data storage part 4. When the end of original reading is judged, the public part data of public data stored in the storage part 4 are transmitted. When the transmission is finished, communication mode change is declared, confidential reception is instructed to a receiver by using an option function, and the confidential part is transmitted. This is not immediately printed on the reception side but stored in the storage part 4. Then, the recipient inputs a password and prints the confidential part. When a telephone line is opened at the time of transmission end, at the same time, the transmitted image data in the storage part 4 are erased.

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 color original reading function and an image data storing function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in ordinary facsimile communication, all received image data is printed immediately.
Further, a facsimile apparatus having an image data storage unit has a function called confidential communication in which all received documents are once stored in the image data storage unit and are printed only after performing a predetermined operation (password input, etc.). .

[0003]

However, in the conventional facsimile communication of the above-mentioned conventional example, all the received documents are printed immediately, so that the received document can be seen by people other than the sender's request. There was a drawback that it would end up.

Further, in confidential communication for compensating for the above-mentioned drawbacks, when the receiving facsimile is used by a plurality of persons, it is not known to whom the received document stored in the image data storage unit is addressed. However, there is a drawback that the sender needs to inform the receiver by telephone or the like.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of easily performing image communication on the receiving side while recognizing necessary reception of confidentiality.

[0006]

According to the present invention, a portion (hereinafter, referred to as a public portion) that may be viewed by a person other than a sender's request when creating a transmission document and a portion to be confidentially transmitted (hereinafter, a confidential portion). (Referred to as "portion") are created by color-coding with a predetermined color, and automatically detected when reading the transmission original, and the public portion is immediately printed to the receiver, and the confidential portion is stored in the image data storage unit. By instructing to do so, it is possible to inform who the document is to by one manuscript by printing the public part immediately, and the part that you do not want others to see is the confidential part, and the image data storage part Can be stored in.

[0007]

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a first embodiment of the present invention.

The color scanner 1 is an image reading device controlled by the CPU 2 by the control signal line 14a, can read a transmission original in color, and can output R, G, and B color signals to one pixel. 8a, 8b, 8
c is output, and the R, G, and B color signals are taken into the CPU 2.

The CPU 2 is a central processing unit for controlling other parts, arithmetic processing of image data, and the like. The operation panel 3 has operation keys and a display for operating the apparatus, and the control signal line 11 allows the CPU 2 to operate.
Controlled by.

The image data storage unit 4 is a memory for storing image data and the like, and the control signal line 12 controls writing and reading by the CPU 2.

The modem 5 modulates image data and demodulates a received signal. The data signal line 9 transfers data to and from the CPU 2, and the control signal line 14b controls the data.

The NCU 6 is a communication control unit for connecting to a public telephone line network, and the signal line 10 allows the modem 5 to operate.
Connected to the CPU by the control signal line 14c
Controlled by 2.

The printer 7 is for printing the received image, and is controlled by the CPU 2 by the signal line 13.

Next, FIGS. 2 and 3 are flow charts showing the operation in this embodiment. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the setting "images written in red are confidential" is set in advance, and this flowchart will be described.

S1 indicates the state at the start,
The sender sets a manuscript whose confidential portion is written in red on the color scanner 1, inputs the telephone number of the receiver on the operation panel 3, and presses the start button.

Next, in S2, the document is read. This is a control signal from the CPU 2 (signal line 14a)
Thus, the color scanner 1 starts reading the original. The R, G, B signals output from the color scanner 1 are fetched by the CPU 2.

Next, in S3, the color of the pixel is discriminated based on the R, G, and B signals fetched in S2. If the color of the pixel is white, the process proceeds to S4 and preset. If it is the designated color (red in this embodiment) of the confidential portion, the process proceeds to S5, and if it is a color other than the designated color, the process proceeds to S6.

Then, in S4, S5, and S6, the image data is made black and white, and two types of transmission image data, that is, a public portion and a confidential portion, are created. First, in the case of S4, both the image data of the public part and the image data of the confidential part are created as white pixels.

In the case of S5, the public partial image data is created as a white pixel and the confidential partial image data is created as a black pixel. Further, in S6, the public partial image data is created as a black pixel, and the confidential partial image data is created as a white pixel.

Next, two types of image data, the public portion and the confidential portion, created in S4, S5 or S6 are stored in the image data storage unit 4 in S7.

Then, in S8, it is judged whether or not the reading of the document is completed, and if it is not completed, the process returns to S2. If the reading is completed, the process proceeds to S9.

In S9, facsimile transmission is started, and S
The telephone number set in 1 is dialed, and after the receiving side receives the call, the normal pre-facsimile procedure is performed.

Next, in S10, the image data of the public portion of the two types of image data of the public portion and the confidential portion, which are created in S2 to S8 and are stored in the image data storage unit 4, are transmitted. This transmission is a normal facsimile communication and is printed immediately on the receiver side.

After the transmission of the public partial image data is completed in S10, the transmitter side sends a signal indicating the end of the page to the receiver in S11, and
Declare that there is a next page. After that, it declares that the communication mode is changed, and uses the optional function in it to instruct the receiver to perform confidential reception (reception to store the received document in the image storage unit without immediate printing). .

After that, in S12, the image data of the confidential portion stored in the image data storage unit 4 is transmitted. This image is stored in the image data storage unit 4 without immediate printing on the receiver side.

In this way, when the transmission of all the image data is completed, the facsimile communication is ended by the post procedure of the facsimile communication in S13, and the telephone line is opened. Further, in S15, the image data storage unit 4
The transmitted image data stored in is deleted and the process ends.

According to the method described above, the original 15 as shown in FIG. 4A is created and transmitted, so that only the public portion 16 is displayed on the receiver side as shown in FIG. 4B. Immediately printed, the confidential portion is stored in the image storage unit 4.
Then, the recipient performs an operation such as inputting a predetermined password, so that the confidential document 17 as shown in FIG. 4C is printed.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. The configuration of the device in the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment.
It is assumed to be similar to the embodiment (FIG. 1).

In the first embodiment, the confidential portion is created in the designated color (red) to distinguish the public portion and the confidential portion, but in the second embodiment, the designated color is created after the document is created. The area is designated by surrounding the confidential portion with a line marker or the like, and the public portion and the confidential portion are distinguished from each other.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the operation of this embodiment, which will be described below.

S15 shows the state at the start, and S16 shows the reading of the document. These are the same as S1 and S2 of the first embodiment (FIG. 2).

Next, the color image data fetched by the CPU 2 in S16 is stored in the image data storage unit 4 as it is in S17.

In S18, it is judged whether or not the reading is completed. If not completed, the process returns to S16 and the reading is repeated. When the reading is completed, the process proceeds to S19.

In S19, the color image data (hereinafter referred to as basic image data) stored in the image data storage unit 4 is searched for the data of the color designated in advance, and the image data area (hereinafter referred to as the image data area surrounded by the data is searched. , Designated image data area).

Next, in S20, the image data in the designated image data area obtained in S19 is copied as confidential partial image data to the confidential partial storage section newly provided in the image storage section 4. At this time, since the image data is color data, black-and-white conversion is performed here and the confidential partial image data is used.

In S21, all the image data in the designated image data area of the basic image data is converted into white data. After this, the color data is converted into black and white to form public partial image data.

As described above, the public partial image data and the confidential partial image data are created in the image storage section 4 as in the first embodiment. Thereafter, similarly to the first embodiment, the process proceeds to S9 in FIG. 2, the facsimile transmission is performed, and the process ends in S14 in FIG.

[0038]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By creating a confidential part in different colors when creating a transmission manuscript, only a part of one manuscript can be confidentially sent.By writing that the public part has the recipient's name and the confidential part, it is possible to specify who the recipient is. Confidential transmission is possible without notifying again.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

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

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

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a transmission document and a reception image of the above embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Color scanner, 2 ... CPU, 3 ... Operation panel, 4 ... Image data storage unit, 5 ... Modem, 6 ... NCU, 7 ... Printer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile having a color original reading section for identifying an image by identifying at least three colors and an image data storage section for storing image data read by the color original reading section and received image data. When transmitting to a facsimile device having an image data storage unit, the device has a function to specify to the receiver the image data to be immediately printed and the image data to be stored in the image data storage unit without printing. Then, the facsimile apparatus is characterized in that the image data to be immediately printed and the data to be stored in the image data storage unit are automatically designated according to the color difference of the document read by being identified by the color document reading unit.