JPH0865479A - Image communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an image communication equipment by which image data are sent while name information in response to a transmission destination is added to the image data. CONSTITUTION: A key board 7b has plural known one-touch keys and a telephone number of a desired reception station is registered to each of one touch keys. In the case of registration, a destination company name, character information such as abbreviation, plural receiver names having the possibility of receiving an original in a same destination reception station in addition to a name such as department and individual names of plural senders of a transmission station as a conventional equipment are registered. The registered information is stored in a prescribed area of a RAM 9. When the reception station of the destination of the original is designated by the operation of one-touch keys of the key board 7b, the individual name of plural senders of a transmission station, name such as department or destination company name and character information such as abbreviation and the name of a receiver are added to the received image data and the result is sent to the designated destination.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an image communication device for transmitting input image data to a receiving station.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an apparatus of this type, for example, in a facsimile machine, an abbreviation of a transmitting station, a telephone number, a page number or the like is transmitted by an image such as a dot matrix to record each page of recorded data It has been known. Such sender information is registered in the memory by inputting a desired character string in advance from the keyboard, and is converted into image data using a character generator or the like and transmitted, so that the image is received on the receiving side. It is recorded as information. Usually, this information is recorded at the beginning of each page of the document.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, it was not possible to add the information about the receiving station side to the transmitted document and transmit it. In other words, if a large number of people are using a single facsimile machine, the receiving station cannot easily distribute the received document unless the recipients and the receiving department are indicated. Must write by hand.

However, a manuscript transmitted by a facsimile machine may include an important document, and in many cases, it is the original. Therefore, in order to prevent the original from being altered by writing, the operator writes (1) the original with a pencil and erases it with an eraser or the like when the transmission is completed.
(2) Copy the original document, write it, and use it for transmission. (3) In addition to the original manuscript, a manuscript in which the recipient's name and the like is written is created, and the recipient etc. is transmitted to the receiving station side by a method such as transmitting the manuscript prior to the manuscript.

Therefore, there is a drawback in that the work involved in the transmission of the original document is very troublesome and the time required therefor becomes great.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and to provide an image communication apparatus capable of adding name information according to a destination to which image data is transmitted and transmitting the image data.

[0007]

In order to solve the above problems, in the present invention, a plurality of specifying means for specifying the destination of the receiving station when the image data input by the input means is transmitted by the transmitting means. And storage means for storing name information relating to the destination in association with each of the plurality of designating means, and when the operator selects one of the plurality of designating means during image transmission. The name information about the destination corresponding to the selected designating means is read from the storage means, added to the image data input by the input means, and transmitted to the designated destination by the transmitting means.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus to which the present invention is applied, and the apparatus has substantially the same structure as a conventional one. That is, the original is read by CCD
The image data received by the reading unit 6 using a line sensor or the like is received by the recording unit 5 using a thermal printer or the like.
Recorded in. The redundancy suppression processing of the image data and the operation of the entire apparatus are controlled by the control unit 10 including a microcomputer.

Transmission and reception of image information or procedure signals are performed via the modem 1, and operations such as modulation and demodulation of the modem 1 are performed by the control unit 10 via the modem control unit 3. The modem 1 exchanges a transmission / reception signal with a telephone line through an NCU 2 that maintains a connection loop with the line or performs a switching operation with a telephone.

The control program of the control unit 10, control parameters, and the like are stored in the ROM 8, and the image information transmitted / received is stored in the RAM 9.

Further, the device comprises a display 7a and a keyboard 7
The control section 10 controls transmission and reception in accordance with an operation input from the operation section 7.

The keyboard 7b has a plurality of known one-touch keys, and the telephone number of a desired receiving station can be registered for each one-touch key. The telephone number registered through a predetermined operation is stored in a predetermined area of the ROM 8.

At the time of this registration, at the same time, character information such as the company name and abbreviation of the destination is registered in a predetermined area of the ROM 8 by a predetermined operation of the keyboard 7b of the operation unit 7.

In the present embodiment, personal names, department names, etc. of a plurality of callers of a caller station in which the apparatus is installed can be entered from the keyboard 7b, and the entered caller names are also input. It is stored in a predetermined area of the ROM 8.

Further, the names of a plurality of recipients who may receive the originals within the same destination receiving station may be input from the keyboard 7b. In this case, the input names of the plurality of recipients are also stored in the ROM 8. Is stored in a predetermined area of.

For the character selection in the above registration, a well-known character input method using a numeric keypad or a character key can be used, and a desired character type such as alphabet, kanji or kana may be used.

A part of the ROM 8 is composed of an EEPROM or the like, and stores the above information by an electrical writing process. The stored information is retained even after the main power supply is cut off.

In order to select a plurality of caller names registered in the ROM 8, various caller selection keys are provided in addition to various known operation keys and the above one-touch key.
The selection control will be described later in detail.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 4 indicates a sensor portion, and the sensor portion 4 is composed of publicly known sensors for detecting the presence or absence of a document, recording paper, or the like. These sensors are used for controlling transmission / reception or document copy operation as in the conventional case. Further, a conversion circuit such as a character generator (not shown) is provided in order to transmit information such as the above-mentioned transmitting station, receiving station, sender and receiver as image information.

The timer 1 connected to the control unit 10
1 is used to control selection of the name of the sender, as will be described later.

The destination of the original document is designated by operating the one-touch key of the keyboard 7b as in the conventional case.
At this time, one of the names of a plurality of callers registered in the ROM area is selected by using the caller selection key, and is similarly transmitted to the receiving side as image information.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing an example of a method of selecting a sender name at the time of transmitting an original with a one-touch key.

Here, a plurality of callers are registered in advance in the ROM 8 with a certain order such as a first caller, a second caller, etc., and their selection is also performed based on this priority order.

In the operation of FIG. 2, the names of a plurality of callers (in this case, individual names) are selected in accordance with the pressing time of the caller selection key during the transmission operation.
When the caller selection key is pressed with, the name of the calling station called "XX company Tokyo" is displayed on the display 7a as indicated by reference numeral 71, and the first caller called "Takahashi" is further displayed below it. The name A is displayed.

If the caller selection key is kept depressed, the caller's name is designated by the symbol B at the timings T1, T2 and T3.
As shown by ~ D, it changes to "Watanabe", "Sakamoto", and "Miura". Therefore, when the desired sender name appears, the sender selection key is stopped from being pressed, so that the sender name at that time is selected, added to the original image as image data, and transmitted to the receiving side.

Control unit 1 for performing the above control
The control procedure of 0 is shown in FIG. FIG. 3A shows a routine for selecting a caller, and FIG. 3B shows a counting process of the timer 11 which is performed in parallel while the procedure of FIG. 3A is being performed.

Step S1 of FIG. 3A shows the standby state of the apparatus, and the standby state of step S1 continues unless the caller selection key is pressed in step S2.

When the caller selection key is pressed, the telephone number corresponding to the caller selection key is RO as in the conventional case.
It is read from M8, prepared in a predetermined area of the RAM 9 so that it can be converted into a selection signal such as a dial tone and transmitted. At the same time, the register or memory area N for designating the sender is initialized to 1 in step S3.
When the area N is N = 1, the first sender is designated, when N = 2, the second sender is designated.

Next, in step S4, 1 is transferred to the timer register which is counted up by the timer 11 to initialize it. Then, in step S5, the timer 11
To start counting.

In step S13 of FIG. 3B, the timer 1
1 is started, the timer 11 is started in step S14.
Measures the predetermined time. This time is the time T0 in FIG.
Corresponds to ~ T1.

When the timer 11 finishes measuring the predetermined time, the timer register is incremented by 1 due to overflow in step S15.

On the other hand, in FIG. 3A, after the timer is started, a loop of steps S6 to S9 is entered. Here, first
In step S6, the value of the timer register that is counted up every predetermined time as described above is read,
The data is stored in the area N. Then, in step S7, the N-th sender name is selected, the character code thereof is taken out from the predetermined area of the ROM 8 and transferred to the predetermined area of the RAM 9.

In step S8, the character string of the sender name is sent to and displayed on the display 7a. By monitoring this display, the operator can know whether his / her operation is correct.

In step S9, it is determined whether or not the caller selection key of the operation unit 7 is continuously pressed, and if it is continuously pressed, the process returns to step S6 to repeat the loop.

As described above, in the loop of steps S6 to S9, the sender name to be used is switched at every predetermined time as long as the selection key is pressed, and at the same time, the display is switched. In consideration of the case where the last caller name is displayed even if the last caller name is displayed, a determination routine for resetting N when a predetermined number is reached may be inserted in the loop.

When the desired caller name is displayed in step S9 and the pressing of the caller selection key is stopped, the process proceeds to step S10, the timer count is stopped,
The last caller name is fixed on the RAM 9.

In step S11, this character code is converted into dot matrix image data using a character generator, and this is converted into RA in step S12.
It is added to the beginning of the area for the original image information of M9.

Here, the name of the recipient receiving station, the abbreviation, the number of pages, the communication mode, and the image data such as the sender's name are added to the beginning of the original. Then, the process returns to step S1 and waits for a transmission command to be input.

When the original is set and the transmission operation is started by pressing the one-touch key or the start key or the like, the original data read by the reading unit 6 includes the above-mentioned destination receiving station name, sender name, etc. It is stored in the area after the image information and other information, and then transmitted through the same procedure as before. When storing or transmitting the above-mentioned memory, the image data may be inserted with a redundancy suppressing process for converting the image data into a modified Huffman or modified read code.

As described above, the recording result on the receiving side is as shown in FIG. FIG. 4 shows the recording paper 21 transmitted and recorded to the receiving side through the above procedure. As shown in the figure, the telephone number 22 of the receiving station and the date and time 2 are shown in the first line.
3, communication mode 24, page number 25 are recorded.

Subsequently, the receiving station name 26 is entered in the second line,
In addition, the telephone number 27 of the calling station and the name of the calling station 2 in the third line
8 and the name of the sender (“Miura”) 29 selected as described above are recorded, and the document image after that is actually read. However, it goes without saying that the recording format is not limited to the above.

According to the above configuration, by registering the names of a plurality of callers of the caller station in which the device is installed in advance, the caller can be automatically sent without the need for troublesome handwriting and other work. The name is added to the manuscript.

According to the above configuration, once the registration is correctly performed, the same sender name is used thereafter, and the sender name actually transmitted is displayed, so that incorrect information is transmitted. You can prevent mistakes.

Further, since the structure of this embodiment can be implemented by providing only one selection key in the conventional structure, the mechanism of the device does not become complicated and expensive. Moreover, the operation at the time of selection is very simple.

In the above, an example in which the sender name is selected according to the operation time of the sender selection key is shown. However, in addition to the sender selection key, as many keys as the required number of senders, for example, several keys are selected. It may be provided as. In this case, a method is conceivable in which each selection key is commonly used for all destinations by designating the first sender, the second sender, ....

Further, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5, the sender name may be selected depending on the number of times the selection key is pressed.

Steps S1, S2, S11, S1 of FIG.
2 is the same as the same step in FIG.
Steps S20 and S21 between 2 and S11 are a routine for selecting a sender.

In step S20, the number of times the caller selection key is pressed is set as the content of the register N that specifies the caller name.

That is, here, each time the select key is pressed, the sender name is switched, and the display is switched accordingly.

Then, in step S21, the caller name selected (displayed) at that time by pressing a predetermined key (here, the stop key) is fixed and used for transmission.

The desired sender name can be easily selected and added to the beginning of the original image information by the processing as shown in FIG.

Although it has been described with reference to FIG. 1 that not only the name of the sender but also the names of a plurality of receivers of the receiving station can be registered. It can also be sent as information. One-touch keys can be used for selection. When the one-touch key is used, the procedures of FIGS. 3 and 5 can be used as a recipient selection routine by replacing the “sender selection key” with the “one-touch key”. That is, the receiving station is selected by pressing the one-touch key, and the receiver can be selected by the pressing time or the number of times of pressing. Of course, a method of providing a plurality of selection keys can also be used for recipient selection.

FIG. 6 shows an example in which the names of both the sender and the receiver are recorded on the receiving side. In the manuscript 21 of FIG. 6, the telephone number 22 of the receiving station and the date and time 2 are first in the first line.
3, communication mode 24, page number 25 are recorded.

Subsequently, the receiving station name 26 and the selected recipient's name 29 '("Mr. Yoshida") are entered in the second line, and the calling station telephone number 27 and the calling station name 28 are entered in the third line. , And the name (“Miura”) 29 of the selected caller are recorded, and the actual document image is read after that. With this configuration, the personal names of both the sender and the recipient,
It is not necessary to write a name such as a department name, and the transmission operation is significantly simplified.

[0056]

As is apparent from the above, according to the present invention, a plurality of specifying means for specifying the destination of the receiving station when the image data input by the input means is transmitted by the transmitting means,
A storage unit that stores name information relating to the destination in association with each of the plurality of designation units, and when the operator selects one designation unit from the plurality of designation units during image transmission, The name information relating to the destination corresponding to the selected designating means is read from the storing means, added to the image data input by the inputting means, and transmitted by the transmitting means to the designated destination. Name information regarding the destination is read from the storage unit, added to the image data input by the input unit, and transmitted to the designated destination, so that no troublesome work is required and the name information regarding the destination to be transmitted is received by the receiving station. It is possible to provide an excellent image communication device which can be transmitted to and recorded in the storage device and can achieve simplification of operation and determinism of communication.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an operation example in the apparatus of FIG.

3A and 3B are flowcharts showing a control procedure of a control unit when the transmission operation is performed by the operation of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of recording on the receiving side.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a control procedure different from that in FIG.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of recording on the receiving side according to another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 7 Operation part 7a Display 8 ROM 9 RAM 10 Control part 11 Timer 29 Sender name 29 'Recipient name

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for inputting image data, a transmitting unit for transmitting the image data input by the input unit, and a destination of a receiving station when the image data input by the input unit is transmitted by the transmitting unit. And a storage unit that stores name information relating to the destination in association with each of the plurality of designating units, and when the image is transmitted, the operator selects one of the plurality of designating units. From 1
When one of the designation means is selected, the name information regarding the destination corresponding to the selected designation means is read from the storage means, added to the image data input by the input means, and transmitted to the designated destination by the transmission means. An image communication device characterized by: