JPH07184016A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the equipment which designates discrimination numbers of facsimile equipments of the other parties, which transmit information, to classify and output these information by discrimination numbers of designated equipments of the other parties by managing received image information by equipment discrimination number information of the other parties to store them in a memory. CONSTITUTION:When compressed and encoded image information is received, other-party discrimination number information received as a non-standard function setting signal of the protocol or other-party discrimination number information included in control data of the D channel in ISDN is inputted to a main control part 10 and is discriminated. Discriminated other-party discrimination number information is registered in a transmission/reception picture management part 15 together with the storage start address and the end address as storage area information of an image memory 16 where image information to be next received should be stored. When reception image information required by an operator is outputted, a list of received and stored equipment discrimination numbers of the other parties is displayed on a display part 14, and an equipment discrimination number is specified and inputted from the displayed list.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention stores image information received by facsimile sequentially in a memory, and designates a destination requiring output printing among the received image information.
The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus that sorts and outputs image information received for each designated destination and prints it.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a facsimile apparatus that stores received image information in a memory, it is general that the received image information is sequentially stored in the memory and then output printing is performed in the order of reception. Since no management is performed regarding information, when the image information required by the recipient is retrieved from the received image information and output, the communication record such as the memory reception management report is output and the required received image information is specified. And then had to output it. In addition, as a facsimile device that sorts received recipients, a facsimile device identification number of a specific destination is registered in advance, and when a facsimile is received, it is determined whether the transmission destination is the registered specific destination. However, the received image information is sorted and output on a plurality of paper discharge trays based on the determination result.

[0003]

However, in these conventional facsimile machines, especially in the facsimile machines having no sorting output function, the received image information is not managed at all. It required a troublesome operation to retrieve the received image. Further, in a facsimile apparatus which designates a specific destination in advance and sorts and outputs the images to a plurality of discharge trays when an image is received from the specific destination, not only the operation of previously determining and registering the specific destination is required. , Only the image information received from a specific destination can be sorted and output. Furthermore, unless the recording paper of the sorted received image information is taken out, it remains on the paper discharge tray forever and there is a problem that the paper discharge tray that can be used is limited.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and in a facsimile apparatus for sequentially storing and storing received image information, identification of a facsimile apparatus as a transmission destination which needs to be output from the stored image information. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile device that can sort and output by specifying the identification number of the designated partner device by specifying the number.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a facsimile apparatus according to claim 1 is an apparatus for sequentially storing received image information in a memory, and an apparatus of a transmission partner from a received signal. A means for discriminating the identification number; a means for detecting a storage position where the received image information is stored in a memory; a means for managing the storage location information detected by the detection means and the device identification number information output from the discrimination means. A means for instructing output of accumulated image information, a means for searching the managing means by a device identification number instructed to output, and image information accumulated in a memory based on storage position information of image information output from the retrieval means And means for reading and recording.

A facsimile machine according to a second aspect of the present invention comprises means for sorting and outputting the recording paper recorded by the recording means, and when there are a plurality of device identification number information for which output is instructed, sorting is performed for each device identification number information. It is characterized by outputting.

Further, the facsimile machine according to a third aspect of the invention is characterized in that it comprises means for displaying a list of information stored in the management means based on an instruction from the output instruction means.

Further, in the facsimile apparatus according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the sorting output means is composed of a plurality of paper discharge trays, and is divided into a plurality of times when an output instruction of a device identification number equal to or larger than the number of paper discharge trays is issued. The feature is that they are sorted and output.

[0009]

In the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, the device identification number of the transmission partner is determined from the received signal, and the storage position where the received image information is stored in the memory is detected.
The detected storage position information and the determined device identification number information are stored in association with each other, and when the output of the accumulated image information is instructed, the stored information is searched by the device identification number instructed to be output, and a search means. The image information accumulated in the memory is read out and recorded based on the storage position information of the image information output from.

Further, the facsimile apparatus of the present invention has means for sorting and outputting the recording sheets recorded by the recording means, and when there is a plurality of device identification number information for which output is instructed, sorting is performed for each device identification number information. Output.

Further, in the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, a list of information stored in the management means is displayed based on the instruction from the output instruction means.

Furthermore, the sorting output means is composed of a plurality of paper discharge trays, and when an apparatus identification number equal to or larger than the number of paper discharge trays is instructed to output, it is divided into a plurality of times for sorting output.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration for explaining the operation of the present invention. The main control unit 10 is
ROM including CPU 30, ROM 31 and RAM 32
It controls the entire facsimile apparatus according to the program stored in. The RAM 32 stores the identification number information of the transmission partner device and the attribute information such as the communication mode, and the memory area 33 that stores the identification number information of the transmission partner and the reception source terminal device, and image information when transmitting and receiving. Has a buffer memory area, a work area area, and the like.

The document set in the reading section 11 has the communication mode input from the operation section 13, the device identification number of the transmission partner, and the device identification number of the transmission partner as the main depending on the transmission start instruction. It is input to the control unit 10.

It is determined whether the input device identification number of the transmission partner matches the device identification number of the transmission partner stored and stored in the memory area 33, and the transmission destination device is called according to the input communication mode. The protocol communication is performed with the partner device, and the transmission of the document image information is started.

The image information of the transmission document output from the reading unit 11 is compression-encoded by the encoder 12. The transmission attribute input from the operation unit 13 is stored in the RAM 32 of the main control unit 10.
The image information compressed and encoded by the encoder 12 is stored in the image memory 16 under the file management of the transmission / reception image management unit 15. The decoder 17 converts the compression-coded image information into the original image information. The image information that has been subjected to the scaling processing by the scaling processing unit 18 that performs the scaling processing of the document size according to the attributes of the communication partner device is compressed and encoded by the encoder 19.

The compressed and encoded image information is sent to the communication control unit 2
0, the modem 21, and the network control unit 22 to transmit to the transmission / reception line. The operation unit 13 includes a mode setting key (not shown) such as conditions for transmission, a ten-key for inputting a telephone number or the like as transmission partner identification information, a transmission start key, and the like. The telephone number of is displayed on the display unit 14.

On the other hand, when received via the network control unit 22, the modem 21, and the communication control unit 20, the other party identification number information received as a non-standard function setting (NSS) signal of the protocol, or for D channel control in ISDN. The partner identification number information included in the data is input to the main control unit 10 and is determined. The determined other party identification number information is registered in the transmission / reception image management unit 15 together with the storage start address and the end address which are the storage area information of the image memory 16 in which the image information that is continuously received is accumulated and stored.

The image information accumulated and stored in the image memory 16 is held in the state where the received image information is accumulated and stored in the image memory 16 when the memory receiving mode is set by the mode setting means 23. When the memory reception mode is not set, the received image information is output to the recording unit 24,
Output printing is done.

From the image information received, accumulated and stored,
When the received image information required by the operator is output, the output mode of the accumulated image information is selected from the operation unit 13, and the display unit 14 displays a list of the device identification numbers of the receiving and accumulating destinations. Enter the device identification number from the displayed information. The device identification number of the output target that is specifically input is input to the main control unit 10, and the transmission / reception image management unit 15 uses this device identification number as a search key item.
The partner identification number information stored in is searched.

The storage area information of the image memory 16 stored corresponding to the retrieved partner identification number information is read out,
Storage area information corresponding to the number of received documents retrieved corresponding to the partner identification number information input to the RAM 32 of the main control unit 10 is stored. Based on the storage area information stored in the RAM 32, the image information read from the image memory 16 is decoded by the decoder 17, expanded as a bit image through the scaling processing unit 18, and output to the recording unit 24. Printing is done.

The printed recording paper is output to the discharge tray of the sorting unit 25. If there is a plurality of partner identification number information input for the output request, the sorting is performed for each partner identification number information. Sorting is performed on each discharge tray of the unit 25. If the other party's identification number information for which an output request is made is input in excess of the number of the output trays of the sorting unit 25, after the image information of the number corresponding to the number of the output trays of the sorting unit 25 is printed and output, Guidance indicating that the output image information exists is displayed on the display unit 14. When the print output is continued, the operation unit 13 gives an instruction for continuous output, and the output is sorted to each discharge tray of the sorting unit 25.

FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of how the transmission / reception image management unit 15 holds management data.
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic representation of how to store and store image information in the image memory 16.

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart regarding the operation of the present invention. It is determined whether or not the facsimile machine is in the receiving state (# 40). If it is in the receiving state, the facsimile number of the other party as the apparatus identification number of the other party is determined from the control data of the D channel in the protocol or ISDN (# 41). The storage start address on the image memory 16 that stores and stores the received image information is detected, and the image information is stored (# 42, # 43). While sequentially accumulating and storing, the number of received pages is also detected, and it is judged whether the reception is completed (# 44, # 45). If reception is not completed, step # 4 of accumulating and storing received image information
The process proceeds to 3 and the image information accumulation is continued.

At step # 45, when the reception is completed, the final address of the image memory 16 in which the image information is stored is detected (# 46), and the facsimile number of the other party which has been discriminated and the detected storage start address and the final address are detected. The storage address and the number of received pages are stored in the transmission / reception image management unit 15 (# 47). When the facsimile apparatus is set to the memory reception mode, the received image information is stored in the image memory 1
When the memory reception mode is not set, the image information stored in the image memory 16 is output to the recording unit 24, printing is performed on the recording paper, and the processing is terminated (# 48, # 49).

When the facsimile device is not in the receiving state,
It is judged whether or not an output request of the image information being received in the memory is made (# 50), and when it is detected that the output request is made, the display unit 14 displays a list of the facsimile numbers of the other party stored in the transmission / reception image management unit 15. Displayed in (#
51). The destination facsimile number to be output is specified from the displayed list, and the data stored in the transmission / reception image management unit 15 is searched using the input facsimile number as a search key item (# 52, # 5).
3). The retrieved data and the specially input destination facsimile number are stored in the RAM 22, and it is determined whether the number m of the input destination facsimile numbers is greater than the number n of sorting functions of the sorting unit 25 (# 54, # 55). . When the number m of the partner facsimile numbers that have been specifically input is smaller than the number n of the discharge trays, which is the sorting function of the sorting unit 25, the image information is read from the image memory 16 based on the search data (# 5
6), the printout is sent to the recording unit 24 for print recording, and the printed recording paper is sorted and output (# 57, # 5).
8).

In step # 55, when the number m of the partner facsimile numbers is larger than the number n of the discharge trays, the number of the partner facsimile numbers corresponding to the number n of the discharge trays is selected, and the selected partner facsimile number is selected. Based on this, the image information is read out from the image memory 16 (# 59, # 6).
0). The read image information is output to the recording unit 24, printed and recorded, and sorted by the sorting unit 25 (# 6).
1, # 62). It is judged whether the printout is completed (#
63) When the output is completed, it is checked whether or not the unoutputted image information exists (# 64), and if it exists, the guidance indicating that the output image information exists is displayed on the display unit 14 (# 65). ). It is checked whether or not an instruction to continuously output the image information that has not been output is given (# 66). When the output instruction is given, the destination facsimile number n to be output is subtracted from the specifically input destination facsimile number m. Select a number of other facsimile numbers (# 66),
Go to step # 60.

When the print output is not completed in step # 63, the process proceeds to step # 60, and the reading of the image information and the print recording are continued. In step # 64, the process ends when there is no image information that has not been output.

[0029]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The received image information is managed by the device identification number information of the other party, and is stored and stored in the memory. Since only the received image information is sorted by the device identification number information and printed out, the received image information can be arbitrarily selected and output and can be effectively used without restraining the paper discharge tray. .

[0030]

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram related to a method of holding management data of a transmission / reception image management unit in the facsimile apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram relating to a method of accumulating and storing image information in an image memory in the facsimile apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a functional operation in the present invention.

[0031]

[Explanation of symbols]

10 main control unit 11 reading unit 13 operation unit 14 display unit 15 transmission / reception image management unit 16 image memory
17 Decoder 18 Magnification Processor 19 Encoder 24
Recording section 25 Sorting section

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus for sequentially accumulating received image information in a memory, means for determining a device identification number of a transmission partner from a received signal, and means for detecting a storage position for storing the received image information in the memory. Means for managing the storage position information detected by the detecting means and device identification number information output from the discriminating means, means for instructing the output of accumulated image information, and the management with the device identification number instructed to output A facsimile apparatus comprising: a means for searching the means; and means for reading and recording the image information stored in the memory based on the storage position information of the image information output from the searching means. 2. A means for sorting and outputting the recording paper recorded by said recording means, and when there are a plurality of device identification number information for which output is instructed, it is sorted and output for each device identification number information. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, 3. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for displaying a list of information stored in said management means based on an instruction from said output instruction means. 4. The sorting output means is composed of a plurality of paper discharge trays, and when an output instruction of an apparatus identification number equal to or larger than the number of paper discharge trays is issued, the sorting output means is divided into a plurality of times for sorting output. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 2, wherein