JPH0698076A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide facsimile equipment capable of displaying by distinguishing already outputted and confirmed image data from unconfirmed image data not being outputted once when data to specify image data accumulated in image memory is displayed. CONSTITUTION:A control part 10 attaches a confirmed mark on the managing information of the image data in a RAM 11 when reading out the image data designated from the image memory 15 by an operating part 3 and outputting it from a display part 4 or a recording part 2. Therefore, when an image data summary to specify the image data in the image memory 15 is generated and displayed on the display part from managing data in a RAM 9 by an instruction from the operating part 3, the confirmed image data and the unconfirmed image data are displayed by distinguishing the presence/absence of the confirmed mark. An operator can retrieve the image data desired to output by observing only unconfirmed image data summary from such display.

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 memory receiving function, and more particularly to a management system for receiving image data received by a memory.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a facsimile machine generally has a function of sending a received image data to a recording section, printing the same on a recording sheet and outputting the same when an original is received. Confirm the receipt by looking at the received document. However, with the recent widespread use of facsimile machines, the contents of information to be transmitted and received are spread over many fields, and the received information includes even unnecessary information. However, the conventional facsimile apparatus as described above prints out all the received image data, and thus has a drawback in that unnecessary information is printed out and the recording paper is wasted.

Therefore, in order to avoid the above drawbacks, the received image data is temporarily stored in the image memory, and then only the received image data instructed by the operator is read out from the image memory and displayed on the display unit. Alternatively, a facsimile apparatus of a type that prints on a recording paper and outputs the recording paper has come into the market. However, in the facsimile apparatus of such a system, the step of selecting the received image data to be output from the image memory at the operator's discretion is indispensable. However, when displaying the list data for identifying the received image data accumulated in the image memory and selecting the necessary data, the image data previously confirmed by the output from the image memory by another person or another person, and now The image data that has never been output and confirmed has not been displayed separately. For this reason,
When the number of received image data stored in the image memory is large, it takes time for the operator to select desired image data to be output, and the already confirmed data is output again. There is a drawback that there is a high possibility that an erroneous search for will occur.

[0004]

In the facsimile apparatus having the memory receiving function as described above, when the number of image data stored in the image memory is large, the image data already output and confirmed still remains. Since it is not possible to display it with unconfirmed image data that has never been output, it takes time for the operator to search the unconfirmed image data for the image data to be confirmed, and the already confirmed image data However, there is a drawback that an erroneous search such as re-outputting is generated.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and when displaying the data for specifying the image data stored in the image memory, the image data already output and confirmed is output once. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of distinguishing and displaying unconfirmed unconfirmed image data.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a facsimile machine having a memory receiving function, displaying image data stored in the memory, and displaying management data for specifying the image data. When the management data is displayed when the image data accumulated in is displayed, it has a configuration including display means for displaying the management data for specifying the image data and the data indicating confirmation.

[0007]

In the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, when the control means outputs the image data stored in the memory, the control means adds data indicating confirmation to the management data for specifying the image data. When displaying the management data, the display means displays the management data together with other management data if the data indicating the confirmation is added.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention. 1 is a reading unit that reads a document and converts it into image data, 2 is a recording unit that prints and outputs image data on recording paper, 3 is an operation unit that inputs a telephone number and various operation instructions into the apparatus, and 4 is A display unit for displaying various data, 5 is a signal processing unit for performing binarization, encoding, decoding, etc. of the image data, 6 is a modem for modulating / demodulating the image data, 7
Is an NCU that captures and releases the line, 8 is a ROM that stores various programs for operating the control unit 10 and fixed data, and 9 is a working memory of the control unit 10.
AM, 10 is a control unit for performing various controls such as communication control and display control of management data, 11 is a RAM for storing various management data, 12 is a backup power source for backing up the RAM 11 and the image memory 15 in case of power failure, 13 Is a clock unit that supplies date and time information to the control unit 10, and 14 is a subscriber line.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. N
When the CU 7 receives an incoming call through the subscriber line 14 and the line is connected to the transmission source, the control unit 10 executes a predetermined communication procedure and then receives image data through the NCU 7. The image data received by the NCU 7 is demodulated by the modem 6, then decoded by the signal processing unit 5, and then compressed. The control unit 10 stores the received image data thus compressed in the image memory 15. At this time, the control unit 10 writes the management information for specifying the accumulated image data in a predetermined area of the RAM 9. Here, as the management information, the serial number of the image data stored in the image memory 15 or the address information indicating the storage area, the telephone number information of the sender or the facsimile number, and the transmission mode of the received image data (G3, MF ... ) Etc. When the main control unit 10 receives the image data as described above, the main control unit 10 displays a message informing the reception on the display unit 4. As shown in FIG. 2, protocol communication and image data communication are performed between the transmitting side facsimile apparatus and the receiving side facsimile apparatus. However, when the image data indicated by PIX in the drawing is received, The control unit 10 of the facsimile machine creates management information of this image data and initializes (unconfirmed) data indicating confirmation or non-confirmation of the image data.

The operator wants to confirm what the received image data stored in the image memory 15 is by looking at the message indicating that the image data displayed on the display unit 4 has been received. In this case, the operation unit 3 is operated to issue a received image data list display instruction to the control unit 10.
As a result, the control unit 10 moves the RAM 11 to the image memory 1
The reception date and time of the received image data, transmission source information, communication result, number of received sheets, and completed mark (not read if there is no) in 5 are read out and displayed as a received document list as shown in FIG. Here, as shown in (a) of FIG. 3, those already read from the image memory 15 and output from the display unit 4 or the recording unit 2 are marked with a mark. Therefore, the operator can intensively search only unconfirmed received image data that does not have the completed mark. In this way, when the desired image data is found, the operator operates the operation unit 3 to specify the document to be output to the control unit 10. In response to this, the control unit 10 reads the corresponding image data from the image memory 15 and supplies this to the display unit (or the recording unit 2) 4,
Output. At this time, the control unit 10 adds a confirmation mark indicating that the confirmation is completed to the management information of the output image data in the RAM 9. Therefore, before and after the talk, the management information read out from the RAM 11 to be displayed on the display unit 4, that is, the received image data list is marked with a mark as shown in FIG. 3, and the image data in the image memory 15 is once stored. It is displayed by distinguishing between those that have been output and those that have not yet been output.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a relationship between management data of received image data stored in the RAM 9 and image data stored in the image memory 15. Image memory 15
The received image data stored in the memory 9 and the management data in the RAM 9 are stored in the respective memories in a one-to-one relationship. That is, the management information m in the RAM 9 corresponds to the image data m in the image memory 15. However, m is an integer from 1 to n.

According to this embodiment, when searching the received image data stored in the image memory 15, the management information of the image data once output to the display section 4 or the recording section 2 is marked with a mark. Displayed as received image data list 4
In this case, the operator can intensively search only the unconfirmed image data that has not been output even once, and the desired image data can be quickly and surely read from the image memory 15 and output. Therefore,
It is possible to remarkably improve the operability at the time of retrieval output of the image data received by the memory.

Further, in this example, the operation unit 3 to the image memory 15 is used.
When it is desired to retrieve only unconfirmed image data in the inside, when an instruction to that effect is given from the operation unit 3, the control unit 10 causes the RAM 1
In the memory management information shown in FIG. 4B of No. 1, only those in which the bit of the done mark is not set are selected, and this is displayed on the display unit 4 in ascending order of date and time, and the unconfirmed image is displayed to the operator. It is also possible to search only the data. Further, it is possible to display only the received image data that has been output once by the same method on the display unit 4 so that the operator can search.

[0014]

As described above, according to the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, when the data for specifying the image data stored in the image memory is displayed, the image data which has already been output and has been confirmed is not used. The unconfirmed image data that has never been output can be displayed separately.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a communication procedure of a facsimile apparatus in a G3 mode recommended by CCITT.

3 is a diagram showing an example of a received document list displayed on the display unit shown in FIG.

4 is an image data and RA in the image memory shown in FIG.
The figure which showed the correspondence with the management information of the said image data in M.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Reading unit 2 ... Recording unit 3 ... Operating unit 4 ... Display unit 5 ... Signal processing unit 6 ... Modem 7 ... NCU 8 ... ROM 9, 11 ... RAM 10 ... Control unit 12 ... Backup power supply 13 ... Clock unit 14 ... Subscription Customer line 15 ... Image memory

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile device having a memory receiving function, displaying image data stored in the memory, and displaying management data for specifying the image data, wherein the image data stored in the memory When the management data is displayed when is displayed, the facsimile apparatus is provided with a display means for displaying the management data for specifying the image data and the data indicating confirmation.