JPH07143319A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To transmit data on plural items stored in a post by the communication of one time by providing an area for the post to register the communication numbers for each transmitting destination and also to store the transmitting data on several items. CONSTITUTION:A RAM7 includes the post areas corresponding to the post keys respectively. Each post includes a post memory area to store the transmitting data and a post register area to control the post memory. Each post memory can successively store the transmitting data on several items. Then a start address is written in the post memory when the storage is started for the data on the first item, and an end address is written in the post memory when the storage is finished for the data on the final item respectively. The telephone number of the transmitting destination, the timer transmitting time, the ID number and the transmitting destination name are registered in the post register of each post by the setting operations of a user. Then the transmitting data stored in the post memory are transmitted in a one time communication mode at the timer transmitting time.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine having a memory transmission function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a facsimile apparatus having a memory transmission function, a transmission original is read by a scanner, the read transmission data is stored in a memory, and the transmission data is stored in the memory after a communication line with a transmission destination is connected. It is read out and transmitted.

By using the memory in this way, timer transmission is possible. In this timer transmission, transmission data is accumulated in the memory and a transmission time is set, and when the transmission time is reached, dialing is automatically performed. Automatically transmit the transmission data in the memory. Therefore, for example, the transmission data can be accumulated in the memory during the daytime, and the transmission data in the memory can be timer-transmitted during the time when the communication charge is low such as at night.

In this timer transmission, a plurality of pieces of transmission data are accumulated and a plurality of transmission reservations are accepted within the range of the storage capacity of the memory, and the transmission data is input every time the transmission time is reached. Separately, timer transmission is automatically performed one by one.

[0005]

In the above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus, since the transmission data stored in the memory is transmitted one by one for each input, the timer transmission function is used to transmit data to the same destination at the same time zone. When multiple items are sent, the pre-processing and post-processing of facsimile communication are performed before and after the transmission of transmission data at each transmission time. However, the advantage of using a time zone with low communication charges cannot be obtained.

Further, even if the timer transmission function is used to transmit to the same destination at the same time zone, the transmission time must be set for each input of the transmission data, and the operation is complicated.

Further, for example, when performing facsimile communication between different countries, due to the difference in the communication charge systems of the countries, the communication charges may differ depending on which country the call originates. is there. In such a case, it is possible to transmit from the side with a lower communication charge and receive the transmission data by the polling function, but if there is no transmission data, the communication becomes useless. Therefore, from the side of low communication charges, only the transmission can effectively use the difference in communication charges.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances. A first object of the present invention is to make it possible to store a plurality of pieces of transmission data to be transmitted to the same destination, and to transmit the data in a single communication. If the stored transmission data to be sent to the same destination is automatically transmitted at the transmission time, and the third purpose is to store the transmission data to the other party, which is the transmission side at the time of reception, the transmission data will be received with one communication. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile device that transmits a message.

[0009]

The invention according to claim 1 is
In a facsimile device having a memory transmission function, a memory having a post area for registering a communication number for each destination and accumulating a plurality of pieces of transmission data, and instructing the posts of the memory to store transmission data It is provided with a post instructing means and a transmitting means for dialing and transmitting the transmission data accumulated in the post of the memory to the communication number registered in the post.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the memory registers the transmission time in the post, and the transmission data stored in the post which has reached the transmission time is transmitted by the transmission means. It is provided with a control means.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the memory registers an ID in the post, and at the time of reception, the ID received from the other party and the I registered in the post.
In addition to providing ID confirmation means for confirming a match with D,
When the ID confirmation means confirms that the IDs match, if the transmission data is stored in the post, the transmission means transmits the transmission data by the transmission means.

[0012]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a plurality of transmission data items to be transmitted to the same destination are stored in the registered memory destination post, and at the time of transmission, the data is stored in the memory post. The registered communication number is dialed, and even if multiple transmission data items stored in the post are stored, they will be transmitted in one communication.

According to the invention of claim 2, in addition to the operation of the invention of claim 1, once the transmission time is registered in the post of the memory, every transmission data accumulated in the post reaches the transmission time. Automatically send to.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the operation of the first aspect of the invention, the ID received from the other party and the ID registered in the memory post match when receiving with the other party as the sender. At the same time, when the transmission data to the other party is accumulated in the post, the data is received from the other party and the transmission data accumulated in the post is transmitted to the other party during this one communication.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The configuration of an embodiment of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, a hook relay switch 2 which is turned on / off under the control of the CPU 1 is connected to the communication line, and a modem 4 is connected to the hook relay switch 2 via a transformer 3 or the like. Further, the telephone line detects the ring signal at the time of incoming call and sends the detected signal to the CPU 1
Is connected to the ring detection circuit 5.

The CPU 1 controls the entire facsimile apparatus. The bus line of the CPU 1 is a ROM 6 in which a control program and the like are stored, various data can be written and read, and a memory for storing transmission data and reception data is provided. RAM 7 is connected.

The bus line of the CPU 1 is connected to an operation panel 8, a clock 9, a printer 10 for printing out print data such as received data, and a scanner 11 for reading transmitted originals.

As shown in FIG. 2, the operation panel 8 includes a dial key 21, a start key 22, a stop key 23, a liquid crystal display 24, a plurality of post keys 25 as post instructing means for instructing posts which will be described later, registration. A key 26 is provided.

The RAM 7 shows a memory area in FIG. 3 (a), and has a post area set corresponding to each of the post keys 25. Each post has a post area for storing transmission data. There is an area of memory and an area of post register that manages the post memory.

A plurality of pieces of transmission data can be sequentially accumulated in the post memory of each post, and a start address is written at the time when the accumulation of the first transmission data is started and at the end of the accumulation of the transmission data of the last case. The ending address is written. The post register for each post is shown in Figure 3.
As shown in (b) (post register (1) is shown in the figure), the destination telephone number, timer transmission time, ID number,
The destination name is registered by the user's setting operation, and the start address and end address are written under the control of the CPU 1.

In FIG. 1, the CPU 1 functions as a function related to the post function, that is, a function of a transmission means for automatically transmitting the transmission data accumulated in the post of the RAM 7 by dialing a telephone number registered in the post, and reception. Sometimes the function of the ID confirmation means to confirm the match between the ID received from the other party and the ID registered in the post, the transmission data stored in the post memory of the post when the transmission time has come In addition to sending it, ID confirmation means ID
If the transmission data is stored in the post when the coincidence is confirmed, it has the function of the transmission control means for transmitting the transmission data by the transmission means.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.

First, the setting of the post will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

The registration key 26 of the operation panel 8 is pressed to enter the post registration mode (step 1 (hereinafter, step numbers are abbreviated as circled numbers in the drawing)), and any post key 25 to be set is pressed. (Step 2).

The telephone number of the transmission destination is input with the dial keys 21 (step 3), and the start key 22 is pressed (step 4). Enter the timer transmission time with dial key 21 (step 5), taking into account the business hours of the recipient, the time difference and time zone with your country in the case of a foreign country, communication charges, etc., and press start key 22 (step 6). . I for identifying the other party
Enter the D number with the dial keys 21 (step 7) and press the start key 22 (step 8). Enter the destination name in the alphabet corresponding to the dial keys 21 (step 9) and press the start key 22 (step 10). By such a registration operation, the post corresponding to one post key 25 is registered, and the post corresponding to another post key 25 is also registered by the similar registration operation.

Next, the transmission operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

The original to be transmitted by the post function is set in the original tray of the facsimile (step
11) When the post key 25 corresponding to the destination is pressed (step 12), the reading / storing operation by the post function is started.
Further, when a document to be transmitted or a document to be copied without using the post function is set in the document tray, the operation associated with the transmission or the copy is continuously performed.

When the post key 25 is pressed to start the reading and storing operation, the destination name registered in the post register of the designated post in the RAM 7 is displayed on the liquid crystal display 24 (step 13), The reading of the document by the scanner 11 is started (step 14).

At the same time, the end address written in the post register of the designated post in the RAM 7 is read, and the transmission data read by the scanner 11 is stored from the position where the end address of the post memory is written (step 15). ). At this time, if no transmission data is stored in the post memory, the start address and the end address have the same value.

When the transmission data of all the originals have been stored, the end address of the transmission data stored in the post memory is newly written in the post register (step 16).

Furthermore, when another original is set on the original tray and the same post key 25 is pressed, the area of the transmission data already stored in the post memory is continued,
The transmission data of this time is accumulated. In this way, a plurality of pieces of transmission data are accumulated in correspondence with posts.

After the transmission data is stored, the RAM 7
Judge the memory capacity of the post memory of (step 17),
When the memory capacity becomes 10% or less, the process proceeds to step 21 which will be described later to perform a transmission process to recover the memory capacity.

Then, the facsimile apparatus reads the time from the clock 9 when in the standby state (step 18),
The current time is compared with the timer transmission time registered in the post register of each post in the RAM 7 (step 1
9).

When the timer transmission time of one post having the current time is reached, the start address and end address of the post register are compared with each other to check whether or not there is transmission data in the post memory (step 20). If there is no transmission data, it returns to the standby state.

If there is transmission data, the telephone number registered in the post register is read and dialed (step 21). When the communication line is connected and the facsimile of the other party responds, it is stored in the post memory. The transmission data stored is read and transmitted during one communication (step 22).

When the transmission of the transmission data is completed, the end address and the start address of the post register are rewritten to the same value (step 23).

By providing the post function in this way, the complexity of setting the transmission time each time the transmission data is input can be eliminated, and even if there are a plurality of transmission data, all of them can be transmitted during one communication. Since the pre-processing and the post-processing of the facsimile communication are performed only once, the communication time can be shortened and the call charge can be reduced as compared with the case of separately transmitting the data one by one.

Next, the receiving operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

In the standby state, the facsimile apparatus monitors the ring signal received from the other side by the ring detection circuit 5 (step 31), and when it detects the ring signal, connects the line (step 32) and responds. A signal is output to perform preprocessing for facsimile communication (step 33). At the time of this preprocessing, the ID is transmitted from the facsimile of the other party.

Then, the image data transmitted from the facsimile of the other party is received, and the received data is stored in the RAM 7 or is printed out by the printer 10 (step 34).

When the transmission of the image data from the other party is completed, the ID received from the other party and the RAM 7
It is compared whether or not the IDs registered in the post registers of the respective posts are the same (step 35).

If the IDs match, it is judged whether or not the transmission data to be transmitted is accumulated in the post memory of the corresponding post (step 36). If there is the transmission data, the line is not disconnected as it is, Subsequent to reception, the transmission data stored in the post memory is read and transmitted to the other party as the transmission side (step 37). When the transmission of the transmission data is completed, the end address and start address of the post register are the same. The value is rewritten (step 38), the line is disconnected and the communication is terminated (step 39).

If the IDs do not match or there is no transmission data in the post, the line is disconnected and the communication ends when reception is privately owned.

As described above, by providing the post function, when the transmission data of the ID registered in the post is received from the transmission destination, when the transmission data to the transmission destination is accumulated,
Transmission data can be transmitted during one communication following reception. Therefore, for example, when performing facsimile communication between different countries, if there is a call for transmission from the side with the lower communication charge, the line from the side with the lower communication charge is used to send from the receiver to the sender. It is possible to effectively use the difference in call charges.

The transmission of the transmission data accumulated in the post is performed not only when the timer is transmitted, when the memory capacity is reduced, when the IDs are received, or when the transmission is suddenly required. It may be possible to arbitrarily send from the post.

[0047]

According to the invention described in claim 1, in the case where the memory is provided with a post capable of accumulating a plurality of transmission data for each destination, and a plurality of transmission data accumulated in this post is accumulated. However, since the pre-processing and post-processing of the facsimile communication are performed only once because the transmission is performed by one-time communication, the communication time can be shortened and the call charge can be reduced as compared with the case of separately transmitting the data one by one.

According to the invention described in claim 2, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, once the transmission time is registered in the post of the memory, all the transmission data accumulated in the post is set as the transmission time. Since the data is automatically transmitted every time it reaches, the complexity of setting the transmission time each time the transmission data is input can be eliminated.

According to the invention of claim 3, in addition to the effect of the invention of claim 1, the ID received from the partner and the ID registered in the post of the memory at the time of reception with the partner as the sender. If they match and the transmission data to the other party is accumulated in the post, the data can be received from the other party and the transmission data accumulated in the post can be transmitted to the other party during this one communication.

[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 front view of an operation panel of the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a memory map diagram of a RAM according to the embodiment.
(a) is a memory map diagram of the post, and (b) is a memory map diagram of the post register of the post.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of post registration according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart at the time of transmission in the above embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart at the time of reception in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 CPU as transmission means, transmission control means and ID confirmation means 7 RAM as memory 25 Post key as post instruction means

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus having a memory transmission function, wherein a memory having a post area for registering a communication number for each destination and accumulating a plurality of pieces of transmission data, and transmission data for the posts of the memory. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a post instructing unit for instructing the storage of the post, and a transmitting unit for dialing and transmitting the transmission data stored in the post of the memory to a communication number registered in the post. 2. The memory comprises a transmission control means for registering a transmission time in a post and causing the transmission means to transmit the transmission data accumulated in the post which has reached the transmission time. Fax machine. 3. The memory is provided with an ID confirmation means for registering an ID in a post, and upon reception, confirms a match between the ID received from the other party and the ID registered in the post. 2. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a transmission control unit that causes the transmission unit to transmit the transmission data if the transmission data is stored in the post when the coincidence is confirmed.