JPH10326238A - Communication terminal equipment with electronic mail function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a communication terminal equipment with an electronic mail function in which the inputting operation of a mail address can be easily attained, and the occurrence of input miss can be reduced. SOLUTION: The history of a mail address designated in the past is stored in a RAM 7 for each log-in information corresponding to each user code of plural users having specific log-in information such as a log-in ID and a password. At the time of mail transmission, when a mail address is designated at the time of registration in a one-action key, the mail address stored in the RAM 7 is displayed at a display part 4, and a user is allowed to select it, and a mail is transmitted to the designated mail address as the destination, and software registered in the on-action key is executed by a main control part 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication terminal device having an electronic mail function such as a facsimile device having a function of connecting to an electronic mail.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a computer communication network which connects a local computer communication network with a communication line and distributes e-mail via a networked Internet or the like has become widespread. The computer communication network has an excellent error correction function and can communicate with computers not only in Japan but also abroad simply by paying the communication cost to the nearest provider (a connection company to the computer communication network).

[0003] The communication procedure and communication system of the conventional G3 facsimile apparatus are different from those of the computer communication network.
Cannot directly connect to computer communication network. However, even image data such as a transmission original can be transmitted to a computer communication network by converting the image data into an electronic mail format.

When transmitting image data converted into an electronic mail format to such a computer communication network, the destination of the electronic mail can be specified by, for example, "aaaa@bbbb.c
o.jp ", enter and specify a mail address including a user name (aaaa), a @ mark, and a domain name (bbbb.co.jp) for specifying a network group to which this user belongs.

[0005] The communication terminal device is generally provided with keys called speed dials and one-touch keys.
By registering the facsimile number in advance as a speed dial or a one-touch key so that the other party can be called with a small number of key inputs, it is possible to save the trouble of input and to avoid input errors.

[0006]

As described above, the mail address includes characters, symbols, and numerals and has a large number of digits, so that operations such as registration to the one-touch key and inputting the mail address at the time of transmission are complicated. And an input error is likely to occur.

The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem. For example, the history of a mail address designated in the past is stored, and the history is displayed so that the user can select it. E-mail addresses can be easily specified by editing the displayed e-mail addresses, and by specifying multiple e-mail addresses by, for example, mixing new input and selection from history data in broadcast transmission. It is another object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device with an electronic mail function such as a facsimile device in which the occurrence of input errors is small.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication terminal device having an electronic mail function, wherein a plurality of log-in data to a network for performing an electronic mail communication can be registered. Storage means, a means for displaying the mail address, and a means for judging any of the displayed mail addresses to be designated as the mail address.

In the first invention, for example, a history of previously specified mail addresses is stored for each login data in association with a user code of a user having unique login data such as a login ID and a password.
When specifying an e-mail address when sending an e-mail or registering to a one-touch key, display the stored e-mail address to let the user select it, send the e-mail to the selected e-mail address, and use the one-touch key. Register with. Thereby, the input operation of the mail address is easy and the occurrence of input errors is small.

A communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the first aspect, further comprises means for accepting the editing of the displayed e-mail address, and means for judging the edited result of the e-mail address to designate the e-mail address. It is characterized by having.

In the second invention, an edit such as a change or deletion made by the user to the displayed mail address is accepted, and a mail is transmitted to the edited mail address as a destination,
In addition, register to the one-touch key. As a result, a new mail address can be specified only by editing a part of the similar mail address by changing, deleting, etc., and the input operation of the mail address is easy and the occurrence of input errors is reduced.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the first or second aspect, the communication terminal device with an e-mail function includes a plurality of e-mail addresses in which selection of any of the displayed e-mail addresses and input of a new e-mail address are mixed. It is characterized by comprising means for receiving designation. Thereby, for example, when a plurality of e-mail addresses are designated as in the case of broadcast transmission, the input operation of the e-mail addresses is easy and the occurrence of input errors is reduced.

[0013]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a facsimile apparatus with an e-mail function according to the present invention (hereinafter, referred to as the present invention apparatus). In the embodiment of the present invention, the Internet is used as a computer communication network. Further, the device of the present invention can be used by a plurality of users each having a login ID to a network, a password, etc., and the login ID of each user,
Login data such as a password is managed by a user code of each user.

The main control unit 1 not only controls each unit of the hardware of the facsimile apparatus through the bus, but also controls the ROM.
6, encoding / decoding of the image data of the original by an encoding method such as MH, MR, MMR, etc., image (TIFF) conversion, binary / text conversion, which will be described later. Executing software such as communication procedures including mail editing, modem switching, control of RS232C by AT commands, and the like.

The main control unit 1 stores a mail address specified in the past as history information in a predetermined area of the RAM 7 for each user, and specifies a mail address at the time of sending a mail or registering to a one-touch key. At
For example, when the redial is pressed, the mail address stored in the RAM 7 is sequentially displayed on the display of the display unit 4 to allow the user to select, and the software for accepting the selection from the displayed as the mail address is executed. I do.

The main control unit 1 is stored in the RAM 7 to assist in an input operation for specifying a mail address.
A software that displays a mail address specified in the past on a display and accepts an edit result such as a change or deletion made by the user on the displayed character string as a mail address specification is executed. Further, the main control unit 1 executes software for accepting, for example, in the broadcast transmission, designation of a plurality of e-mail addresses by selection from among the displayed contents as described above and new input using a one-touch key, a numeric keypad, or the like.

In image conversion, at the time of transmission, G3 format image data is converted into TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), which is a general image format used in computers, and at the time of reception, TIFF to G3 format image data is converted. Convert to TIFF is published by Adobe Systems, and defines various Classes that handle not only black and white binary but also black and white multi-valued and full color. One of them, CLASS F, defines G3 format image data, which is image data of a manuscript in which image data of the manuscript is encoded by an encoding method such as MH, MR, or MMR. Therefore,
It can be converted to TIFF by adding TIFF header information of CLASS F to the head of G3 format image data.

In the binary text conversion, binary data is converted into text data at the time of transmission, and text data is converted into binary data at the time of reception. There are computers on the Internet that cannot handle binary data e-mail. When transmitting binary data such as TIFF image data, the data is first converted to text data so that the e-mail reaches the destination. Text data handled on the Internet
It is defined as a 7-bit code in RFC (Request For Comments) 822, a document issued by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).

Therefore, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mai)
l Extensions) is converted using base64 etc. According to this, 6-bit binary data is 64 characters (uppercase, lowercase alphabet, numbers, +, /)
And can be converted to text data. MIME is specified in RFC1521.

In the mail editing, at the time of transmission, mail header information is added to the TIFF image data converted into text data to edit the data into an e-mail format. At the time of reception, the mail header information is removed from the data in the e-mail format, Extracts only TIFF image data converted to data. Since it is specified that predetermined header information is added to e-mail on the Internet as e-mail management information, the "From: (user's Internet e-mail address) ) ”,“ To: (Internet e-mail address of the other party) ”,“ Subject: (title) ”, etc.

The reading section 2 reads a document by a CCD or the like and outputs image data of a black and white binary document. The recording unit 3 includes an electrophotographic printer or the like, and records image data of a document received from another G3 facsimile apparatus or the Internet.

The display unit 4 includes a liquid crystal display and the like.
The operation state of the facsimile apparatus and the image data of the document are displayed. The operation unit 5 includes various function keys, such as a ten key, a one-touch key, a cursor key, a cancel key, a redial key, and a start key, necessary for operating the facsimile machine.

The ROM 6 stores software necessary for the operation of the facsimile machine. The RAM 7 is composed of an SRAM, a flash memory, or the like, and stores temporary data generated when executing software. In a predetermined area of the RAM 7, a mail address designated in the past by direct input using a one-touch key or a numeric keypad, or a mail address designated in the past by selecting and editing history information of the displayed mail address is stored in a user code. A history memory for separate storage is provided.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of the storage state of the history memory. In this embodiment, a history of five previously specified mail addresses is stored in association with the user code. In the present embodiment, the mail addresses are displayed on the display one by one starting from the latest mail address. When the sixth mail address is stored, the oldest mail address is deleted and stored. If the same mail address is already stored when storing the mail address, this mail address is not stored to avoid duplication of the stored data. Note that RAM 7
Is not limited to the history data, but may be registered in advance.

The image memory 8 is composed of a DRAM or the like, and stores image data of a document. The modem 9 is a modem for performing facsimile communication of image data of a document read by the reading unit 2 and has no data communication function. The data modem 10 is, for example, a modem for data communication that communicates image data of a document converted into an electronic mail via the Internet, and includes, for example, an external telephone terminal provided on a chip of the NCU 11 and a telephone. And a serial port of an external I / F 12 for connection to a personal computer or the like, and an RS232C connection. NCU
11 closes and opens the analog line.

Next, the operation of the apparatus of the present invention at the time of transmitting a mail will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The user is requested to input a user code (step S1). When the user code is input, it is checked whether or not the redial key has been pressed (step S2). If the redial key has not been pressed, an address input from the one-touch key is requested (step S3).

When the redial key is pressed, the mail address history memory corresponding to the user code is searched (step S4), and the latest mail address stored in the history memory (in this example, "MN123@XY.JP"). Is displayed on the display (step S5). Check whether the cursor key or cancel key is pressed (step S
6) If one or both keys are pressed, the character at the cursor position is deleted or changed to the character input with the one-touch key and displayed (step S7).

If the cursor key or the cancel key has not been pressed, it is checked whether or not the redial key has been pressed (step S8). If the redial key has been pressed, the mail address history memory corresponding to the user code has been stored. (Step S4), and the next mail address stored in the history memory ("MN345@ABC.JP" in this example)
Is displayed on the display (step S5).

If neither the cursor key, the cancel key, nor the redial key is pressed for the mail address displayed on the display, the start key is pressed, and the mail address displayed on the display or the edited mail address is added. It is checked whether or not the selected e-mail address has been selected (step S9). If the start key has not been pressed, it is checked whether the display of the next mail address has been instructed by the redial key (step S4).

When the start key is pressed and the mail address displayed on the display or the mail address edited there is selected, the mail address designated this time by the selection is stored in the history memory (step S10). ). At this time, if the mail address to be stored is already stored in the history memory, such as a mail address selected but not edited, the duplication of the stored data is avoided without storing the mail address.

When the mail address is specified as described above, the user logs in to the network with the user's login ID, password, and the like (step S11), and sends the mail to the mail address specified by the user (step S12). ).

[0032]

The communication terminal device with the e-mail function of the first invention stores the history of the e-mail address specified in the past, displays the history, and allows the user to select the e-mail address. Therefore, there is an excellent effect that the input operation of the mail address is easy and the occurrence of input errors is small.

The communication terminal device with the e-mail function of the second invention allows the user to specify the mail address by displaying the history of the mail address specified in the past and allowing the user to edit the history. A new mail address can be specified only by editing by partially changing, deleting, etc., and an excellent effect is obtained in that the input operation of the mail address is easy and the occurrence of input errors is small.

The communication terminal device with an e-mail function of the third invention enables a plurality of e-mail addresses to be specified by, for example, coexistence of new input and selection from history data in broadcast transmission. An excellent effect that it is easy and the occurrence of input errors is small is exhibited.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a storage state of a history memory in the device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an operation of the device of the present invention at the time of transmitting a mail.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main control unit 4 Display unit 5 Operation unit 6 ROM 7 RAM 10 Data modem 12 External I / F

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A communication terminal device capable of registering a plurality of pieces of log-in data to a network for performing e-mail communication, a storage means for storing a mail address for each log-in data, a means for displaying the mail address, and the displayed mail. Means for judging one of the addresses to be designated as a mail address. 2. The communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to claim 1, further comprising: means for accepting editing of the displayed e-mail address; and means for judging the edited result of the e-mail address to designate the e-mail address. 3. A means for receiving designation of a plurality of mail addresses in which selection of any of the displayed mail addresses and new input of a mail address are mixed.
The communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to the above.