JPH0715225Y2 - Fax machine - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of use] The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus having a message source recording function and a receiver recording function (header print).

[Prior Art] Conventionally, in such a device, the information of the message source record prepared on the transmission side, for example, the information such as the name of the transmitting station and the communication time, is part of the image information (generally, It is included in the header) and sent from the transmission side, and is printed as a part (generally the head) of the received copy at the reception side together with the header print information, for example, the information such as the receiving station name.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] However, in the above device, the received copy obtained at the receiving side is
When performing international communication because the time at the sending location is printed, the receiving time cannot be known directly from the received copy due to the time difference between the sending side and the receiving side. Was sometimes mistaken as the reception time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of directly recognizing the reception time on the receiving side from the received copy.

[Means and Actions for Solving Problems] The present invention relates to a time image information generating means for generating time image information corresponding to a reception time in a facsimile device for receiving and recording image information sent from a sender. And a detection means for detecting a time replacement instruction signal transmitted from a transmission source, and when the replacement instruction signal is detected by the detection means, a part of the received image information corresponds to the reception time at the reception source. And a control means for controlling the recording so that the time image information is recorded.

According to the present invention, image information corresponding to the transmission time received by the receiving side facsimile device is imaged based on the time replacement instruction signal included in the non-standard function setting (NSS) signal transmitted from the transmitting side facsimile device. By replacing the image information corresponding to the reception time with the processing unit and recording the image information on the reception document, the reception time on the terminal side can be known from the reception document even in international communication.

Further, when there is no time replacement instruction signal, the replacement time of the reception time information is not recorded, so that the original function of recording the transmission data from the transmission source as it is can be prevented from unnecessarily disturbing.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings of FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention. In the figure, the NSS signal received by the line control unit 11 includes, as instruction information, a time replacement bit for replacing the transmission time of the transmission side and the reception time of the reception side as shown in FIG. The time replacement bit indicates, for example, that the receiving side facsimile machine performs time replacement when the "1" flag is set and that the time replacement is not performed when the "0" flag is set. is there. The main control unit 12 is the line control unit
The image information processing unit 13 is controlled by setting the time replacement function according to the NSS signal received from 11. Image information processing unit 13
Automatically decodes the image information taken in from the line control unit 11, and if there is a replacement instruction from the main control unit 12 at this time, a part of the image information is generated by the header print time itself. The field information is replaced and stored in the buffer memory 14, and then the stored image information is read out to the recording unit 15 and printed. The reading unit 16 is a unit that reads image information from a document or the like during transmission.

Next, the image information processing operation of the facsimile device will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the figure, when the image information is fetched from the line control unit 11, the image information processing unit 13 outputs the image information of the top 32 lines including all the information of the sender record under the control of the main control unit 12. Convert it to printable image data (step 10
1) and stores it in the buffer memory 14 (step 102). Next, set the time replacement bit in the NSS signal received in advance to "1".
It is determined whether or not is standing (step 103). Here, when the time replacement bit is "0", the image data of the top 32 lines, for example, the data of the source record shown in FIG. 4 (a) is printed in the recording unit 15 as it is, and the time replacement is performed. When the bit is set to "1", the reception time data of section B of the header print shown in FIG. 4 (b) is converted into characters by referring to the character generator (step 104), and the time in the buffer memory is changed. The image information at the transmission time is replaced with the image information at the reception time by transferring the data in the corresponding portion of the field (A section shown in FIG. 4A) and overwriting the data in the A section. ). Data of the sender record in which the transmission time is replaced by the reception time (see FIG. 4 (c))
Is read from the buffer memory 14 and printed by the recording unit 15 (step 106), and when the image information processing unit 13 finishes the time replacement process, it processes the data of the next line (first 33 lines) and thereafter (step 106). 107).

Therefore, the reception copy printed in the recording unit is added with the data indicating the reception time as shown in FIG. 4 (c), and in the case of international communication, it is troublesome to convert the reception time from the transmission time. Also, it is possible to prevent the reception time from being erroneously recognized. Further, since such a facsimile device has a font memory, character dots can be read out from the font memory when the characters of the transmitting station name are displayed and can be described in Kanji, so that a more detailed source recording can be performed. Data can be entered.

[Advantage of Device] As described above, according to the present invention, only when the time replacement instruction signal transmitted from the sender is detected, a part of the received image information is received by the receiver at the time corresponding to the reception time. Since it is recorded by replacing it with the image information, the reception time of the terminal itself can be accurately recognized from the received document even when communicating with foreign countries, and if the display of the reception time is unnecessary, the time replacement instruction signal is sent. By not sending it,
It has an excellent advantage that it can easily return to the original function of recording the transmission data from the transmission source as it is.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention,
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the NSS signal according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the operation of the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 shows a sender record, a header print and a time field. It is a format showing each replaced source record. 11 ... Line control unit, 12 ... Main control unit, 13 ... Image information processing unit, 14
... buffer memory, 15 ... recording section, 16 ... reading section.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A facsimile apparatus for receiving and recording image information sent from a sender, time image information generating means for generating time image information corresponding to a reception time, and time replacement instruction sent from the sender. Detecting means for detecting a signal, and when the replacing instruction signal is detected by the detecting means, a part of the received image information is replaced with time image information corresponding to the reception time and recorded. And a control unit for controlling the facsimile apparatus.