JPH09261430A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inform a caller of rejection and prevent the generation of a call tariff and to store the telephone number of the rejected caller by processing a call on a transmission side sent from a telephone line without off hook. SOLUTION: At the time of receiving the detection of an incoming call, a caller's telephone number detecting circuit 12 detects the caller's telephone number to temporarily store in a register within a control circuit 1. Then the number is compared with a registered telephone number 8 stored in RAM 5 to check the presence/absence of a coincident number. A telephone number for receiving the receiving the reception of image data is registered in the registered telephone number 8. At the time of absence, the telephone number of the caller is printed to a recording paper or stored in the caller's telephone number area 9 of RAM 5. As these are operated without off hook, the caller knows that image information is not transmitted by the fact that the line is not off-hooked when reception is rejected and in addition, a call tariff is not necessitated at this 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 capable of detecting a telephone number of a sender.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a problem with facsimile machines in that images such as advertisements are unconditionally received and recording paper is wasted. As a method of solving this, it has been considered to reject the facsimile reception from the sender (caller) not registered in the telephone number registration means. As examples of this disclosure, there are JP-A-62-72271 and JP-A-64-74868.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned solution, it is not possible for the calling party to know whether or not the facsimile reception is rejected. If you refuse to receive a fax, you will be charged for communication. The called party (reception side) does not know the telephone number of the calling party who rejected the facsimile reception, which causes a problem when the rejected image data is necessary. It was requested to solve these three problems.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and a first feature thereof is first storage means for storing received image information and a registered telephone number. Second storage means, a calling party telephone number detection circuit for detecting the telephone number of the sender sent from the telephone line without off-hook, and a telephone number detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit. Is off-hook, the received image data is stored in the first storage means, and if not, it is detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit. That is, a control circuit for recording the telephone number on the recording paper is provided.

The second feature is that the first storage means for storing the received image information, the second storage means for storing the registered telephone number, and the telephone number of the transmitting side sent from the telephone line. A calling party telephone number detection circuit that detects the telephone number without off-hook, a third storage unit that stores the telephone number of the transmitting side, and a telephone number detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit. When the telephone number stored in the storage means matches, the received image data is stored in the first storage means, and when the telephone number stored in the storage means does not match, the telephone number detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit is stored in the first storage means. 3 is provided with a control circuit for storing in the storage means.

A third feature is that when the telephone number detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit matches the telephone number stored in the second storage means, the received image data is stored in the first storage. The control means stores the image data in the recording medium and records the received image data on the recording paper when they do not match.

A fourth characteristic is that when the telephone number detected by the caller telephone number detection circuit matches the telephone number stored in the second storage means, the received image data is recorded on the recording paper. If there is no match, a control circuit for storing the received image data in the first storage means is provided.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main part of the first embodiment of the present invention.

A control circuit (1) is composed of a microprocessor and controls the entire facsimile apparatus according to a program stored in the ROM (2). The control circuit (1) also performs signal processing of the read transmission original data and processing of the received signal. A reading unit (3) optically reads a transmission document, converts the read data into an electric signal, and supplies the electric signal to the control circuit (1). A recording unit (4) is composed of a recording head such as a thermal head, a recording sheet and a recording sheet transfer mechanism, and drives the recording head under the control of the control circuit (1) to perform printing.

Reference numeral (5) is a RAM, which is data necessary for the operation of the control circuit (1), specifically, the received image data (6) and a telephone number (registered by the operation of the input unit (7). 8) and the data such as the telephone number (9) of the calling party detected from the telephone line are stored. Reference numeral (10) is a display unit composed of a liquid crystal display or the like, and displays data input by the input unit (7), data processed by the control circuit (1), and the like.

Reference numeral (11) is an incoming call detection circuit, which detects an incoming call from a telephone line. (12) is a calling party telephone number detection circuit, which detects the telephone number of the calling party (calling side) sent from the telephone station. The system that detects the telephone number of the calling party by the signal from this central office is CALL in the United States.
Called ERS, it has been put to practical use and can detect a telephone number without going off-hook. Reference numeral (13) is a line connection circuit, which has at least a change-over switch (16) for switching the connection with the telephone line to the modem circuit (14) or the telephone set (15), and a hook switch (17). The modem circuit (14) modulates the signal from the control circuit (1) and sends it to the telephone line, and also modulates the signal from the telephone line and outputs it to the control circuit (1). Reference numeral (18) is a dial transmission circuit, which transmits the dial designated by the control circuit (1) to the telephone line through the line connection circuit (13).

The main operation of the first embodiment having the above structure will be described. FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the control circuit (1) in the first embodiment. When the power is turned on, the control circuit (1) determines whether there is an incoming call (S
1), a standby state for checking whether there is a request for recording (printing) on the recording paper (S2) and whether there is a transmission request (S3) is entered. If there is a request for recording on the recording paper, recording processing is performed (S4), and if there is a transmission request, transmission processing is performed (S5) and the process returns to step S1.

When the incoming call detection is received in step S1, the calling party telephone number detection circuit (12) detects the calling party telephone number and temporarily stores it in a register (not shown) in the control circuit (1). (S6). Then, it is compared with the registered telephone number (8) stored in the RAM (5) to check if there is any match (S7). In this case, a telephone number for receiving the image data is registered in advance in the registered telephone number (8).

If there is a match in step S7, it goes off-hook (S8) to receive the image data from the telephone line and stores it in the image data area (6) of the RAM (5) (S9). After that, the process returns to step S1. However, if the storage capacity of the image data area (6) of the RAM (5) is exceeded, the received image data is printed on the recording paper (S10, S11). The stored image data is
If necessary, printing can be performed in steps S2 and S4. As described above, according to the present invention, since only the telephone number selected by the user from the telephone numbers corresponding to the registered telephone number can be printed, comparison with Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 62-72271 which prints all the matching telephone numbers As a result, the amount of recording paper consumed can be further reduced.

If there is no match in step S7, the telephone number of the calling party is printed on the recording paper in the RAM (5) or stored in the calling party telephone number area (9) of the RAM (5) (S12). . After that, the process returns to step S1. The stored telephone number can be confirmed by a method such as printing it on a recording sheet in steps S2 and S4 or displaying it on the display unit (10) in a procedure not shown. Then, if necessary, the caller who rejected the reception can be requested to make a call again. In addition, steps S1, 2, 3, 6, 7,
Since 12 operates without off-hook, the caller can know that the image information could not be transmitted because the line is not off-hook if the reception is rejected. Does not need

Next, a second embodiment will be described. The configuration of the second embodiment is the same as that of the first embodiment shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the operation of the control circuit (1) in the second embodiment. The flow chart of the first embodiment (FIG. 2) is different from step S8 onward, and only this difference will be described.

If the telephone number of the caller does not match the registered telephone number in step S7 of FIG. 3 (N in S7), the telephone is off-hook (S13) as in steps S8 to S11 of FIG. Receives image data from the telephone line,
This is stored in the image data area (6) of the RAM (5) (S14). After that, the process returns to step S1. However, R
If the storage capacity of the image data area (6) of AM (5) is exceeded, the received image data is printed on the recording paper (S
15, S16).

If there is no match in step S7, the image is taken off hook (S17), the image data from the telephone line is received, and the image data is printed on the recording paper (S18). After that, the process returns to step S1.

With this configuration, it is possible to prevent the waste of the recording paper due to the advertisement or the like without rejecting the reception of the image data. If some image data that was not printed on the recording paper needed to be printed, RAM
From (5), image data can be called and printed.

Next, a third embodiment will be described. The third embodiment is the same as the flowchart (FIG. 3) of the second embodiment.
The operation after N and the operation after Y in step S7 are replaced (see FIG. 4). That is, if the telephone number of the caller matches the registered telephone number, the image data is stored, and if the telephone number does not match, the image data is printed on the recording paper.

As in the second embodiment, the function of storing the received image data in the RAM (8) once and printing only the necessary one is convenient, but since the image data amount is large, Most image data cannot be stored in RAM. Therefore, by registering the telephone number of the sender who is not necessarily printed, the limited storage capacity of the RAM (8) is not used by an unexpected advertisement or the like.

Further, in general, there are more telephone numbers of image data to be printed immediately upon reception than telephone numbers of image data for selecting whether or not to print. Therefore, in terms of the labor of registering the telephone number and the storage capacity of the telephone number, it is advantageous to register the telephone number of the caller who is not necessarily printed as in the third embodiment.

Further, when the stored image data is used for a purpose other than printing (for example, transfer to a personal computer or word processor to edit characters or images), undesired data is mixed in the RAM (8). Can be prevented.

In the above-mentioned example, the storage means for storing the image data is the RAM, but the storage means is not limited to this, and the FDD, HD
The recording medium may be a D, a phase change type optical disc, or the like.

[0025]

In order to solve the problem that image data such as advertisements are unconditionally received and the recording paper is wastefully consumed, when a caller who does not match the registered telephone number refuses to receive the call, It is possible to notify the caller of the refusal, to prevent the generation of call charges, and to store the telephone number of the caller who refused.

Even if the reception of the image data is not rejected, by storing the image data, it is possible to prevent the recording paper from being wasted due to the image data which is not necessarily printed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a main part of a configuration according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control circuit of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control circuit of the second embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the control circuit of the third embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Control Circuit 4 Recording Section 5 RAM 6 Image Data (RAM Data Area) 7 Registered Telephone Number (RAM Data Area) 8 Caller Telephone Number (RAM Data Area) 10 Display 12 Caller Telephone Number Detection Circuit 17 hook switch

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus comprising a hook switch and a recording section for recording image data received after an off-hook of the switch on a recording sheet, and first storage means for storing the received image information, Second storage means for storing the registered telephone number, a calling party telephone number detecting circuit for detecting the telephone number of the transmitting side sent from the telephone line without off-hook, and the calling party telephone number detection If the telephone number detected by the circuit matches the telephone number stored in the second storage means, the image data received is stored in the first storage means, and the received image data is stored in the first storage means. A facsimile apparatus comprising a control circuit for recording a telephone number detected by a telephone number detection circuit on the recording paper. 2. A facsimile apparatus comprising a hook switch and a recording section for recording image data received after off-hook of the switch on a recording sheet, and first storage means for storing the received image information, Second storage means for storing the registered telephone number, a calling party telephone number detection circuit for detecting the telephone number of the transmitting side sent from the telephone line without off-hook, and storing the telephone number of the transmitting side. And a third storage means for storing the image data received by the caller telephone number detection circuit when the telephone number detected by the caller telephone number detection circuit matches the telephone number stored in the second storage means. Stored in the storage means of
A facsimile apparatus comprising a control circuit for storing the telephone number detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit in the third storage means when the numbers do not match. 3. A facsimile apparatus comprising a recording unit for recording received image data on a recording sheet, wherein a first storage means for storing the received image information and a registered telephone number are stored. 2 storage means, a calling party telephone number detection circuit for detecting the telephone number of the transmitting side sent from the telephone line, and the telephone number detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit is the second storage. When the telephone number stored in the means matches, the received image data is stored in the first storage means, and when the telephone number does not match, the received image data is recorded on the recording paper. And a facsimile machine. 4. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a recording unit for recording received image data on a recording sheet; first facsimile means for storing received image information; and first memory means for storing a registered telephone number. 2 storage means, a calling party telephone number detection circuit for detecting the telephone number of the transmitting side sent from the telephone line, and the telephone number detected by the calling party telephone number detection circuit is the second storage. When the telephone number stored in the means matches, the received image data is recorded on the recording paper, and when the telephone number does not match, the received image data is stored in the first storage means. And a facsimile machine.