JPH066492A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent useless operation and traffic caused by informing it to a designated person at a sender side that the transmission of transmission destination is based on time designation and designating the transmission again. CONSTITUTION:The facsimile equipment is provided with a notice destination registration section 1 storing and registering in advance a telephone number to be received by other equipment, a report storage section 3 storing in advance information of a report used to notice time designation, a report generating section 4 extracting a time designation report from the report storage section 3 when a time designation transmission text takes place, adding prescribed information such as a date and a time, and generating a transmission report, and a transmission section 5 sending the transmission report to a called destination connected by a line interface section 6.

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 relay machine and a facsimile machine having a time designation function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, this type of facsimile apparatus has not been provided with a means for notifying information regarding time-specified transmission when the transmission to a destination is time-specified. Therefore, the person who has designated the transmission of the message cannot confirm the delay in the transmission result determination due to the time designation, and the means for retransmitting the message is dealt with.

[0003]

When the transmission to the transmission destination is designated by the time, the above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus notifies the transmission designated person of the electronic message of the delay in the determination of the transmission result, so that the transmission is designated. However, there is a problem in that the person again designates the transmission of the electronic message, resulting in useless operation and useless traffic.

An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile device which, when the transmission to the transmission destination is designated by time, notifies the device designated by the transmission designated person of the time designation report.

[0005]

A facsimile device of the present invention is a facsimile device having a function of relaying a facsimile signal and a time designation function, and a notification destination registration unit for storing and registering in advance a telephone number to be received by another device. A report holding unit that holds report information for notifying the time designation to the transmission destination in advance, and when the transmission to the predetermined destination is the time designation, the telephone number of the device that has designated the transmission from the notification destination registration unit is taken out and connected According to the procedure, the time designation report is taken out from the report holding unit, predetermined information such as date and time is added to complete the time designation report, and the report information is transmitted to the destination connected by the connection procedure. .

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

The notification destination registration unit 1 stores and registers in advance the telephone numbers of other devices that notify the time designation report. When the automatic dial transmission unit 2 receives from the control unit 8 the information in the time designation message registration to the transmission destination, it takes out the telephone number of the notification destination registration unit 1 and dials the retrieved telephone number. In addition, a plurality of telephone numbers are registered in the notification destination registration unit 1, and under the control of the time designation registration unit 7, the registered telephone number of the transmission destination of the time designation report is searched for and dial transmission is executed. The report holding unit 3 has a time designation report 31, which may be document paper or image signal information.

Under the control of the time designation registration unit 7, the report creating unit 4 takes out the report 31 from the report holding unit 3 and creates report information to which additional information such as date and time is added. When the report 31 is a document sheet, the report creating unit 4 takes out and reads the target document sheet, converts the additional information into information on the screen, and creates the composite image information. If the report 31 is text information, the report creation unit 4
Is converted into an image signal as screen information obtained by adding additional information to the extracted character information, and is inserted as it is in a predetermined position of a non-standard functional frame of a CCITT standard signal, for example, and both image and character report information is displayed. To create. The transmission section 5 of the facsimile receives the control of the control section 8, requests the report creation section 4 to complete the report of the time designation report 31, connects to another device by dialing, and then is instructed to transmit the report information.

The line interface unit 6 connects the automatic dial issuing unit 2 and the transmitting unit 5 to the communication line under the control of the control unit 8 and controls the communication line. Time designation registration section 7
Is the notification destination registration unit 1 when the time to send to the destination is designated
Is notified of the information of the destination of the time-specified report, the report creation unit is notified of the information such as date and time, and the control unit 8 is instructed to transmit the transmission report. According to the instruction from the time designation registration unit 7, the control unit 8 instructs the transmission unit 5 to transmit the transmission report, the line interface unit 6 to connect the line, and the automatic dial unit 2 to make a dial call.

[0010]

As described above, in the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, the registration of the time designation report is set in advance when the transmission of the transmission destination is the time designation, and the registered report is sent to the apparatus which has designated the registered transmission. By sending
The designating person on the transmitting side can know that the transmission of the transmission destination is designated by time, and it is possible to prevent the wasteful operation and the wasteful traffic caused by the designation of the transmission again.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Notification destination registration unit 2 Automatic dial transmission unit 3 Report holding unit 4 Report creation unit 5 Transmission unit 6 Line interface unit 7 Time designation registration unit 8 Control unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile device having a function of relaying a facsimile signal and a time designation function, which comprises a notification destination registration unit for preliminarily storing and registering a telephone number to be received by another device, and report information for notifying time designation to a transmission destination. A report holding unit which is held in advance, and when the transmission to a predetermined destination is designated by time, the telephone number of the device for which transmission is designated from the notification destination registering unit is taken out and a connection procedure is carried out, and the report designated by the report holding unit A facsimile apparatus, which takes out the information, adds predetermined information such as date and time, completes a time designation report, and transmits the report information to a destination connected by the connection procedure. 2. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the time designation report is transmitted by facsimile using image information, and is transmitted by using character information by using a non-standard function frame of a signal.