JPH1040183A - Communication terminal equipment having electronic mail transmitting function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily identify the division of the page of an original document even at a receiving side by selecting whether or not header information for facsimile communication is added in transmitting it as an electronic mail. SOLUTION: All originals on an original stand are successively read as dot image data one by one, all pages are temporarily encoded by an encoding and decoding part 3, and stored in an image memory 8 as the image data. A CPU 1 reads an other party stored in an RAM 7 preliminarily designated by a user, and reads data related with the other party from an other party table. The CPU 1 operates an option processing for adding header information for facsimile communication for transmitting it as an electronic mail. That is, TIFF(tagged image file format) image data are prepared by adding the header information to the head of the image data, and the header of the electronic mail is added to the TIFF image data converted into text data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication terminal having an e-mail transmission function, for example, a facsimile apparatus capable of transmitting an e-mail by connecting to a computer communication network such as the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are two types of facsimile apparatuses as communication terminal apparatuses, one is a type connected to an analog line and the other is a type connected to a digital line.
The latter are commonly referred to as G4s. However, it is common for G4 machines to also have functions as G3 machines.

In recent years, computer communication networks such as the Internet have become widespread. The reason is that computer networks have excellent error correction capabilities, and users only pay for communication to the nearest contract provider (connection company to the computer network). And the like.

Since the communication procedure of the conventional G3 and G4 facsimile is different from that of the computer communication using the computer communication network as described above, it is usually impossible to directly communicate from the facsimile apparatus to the computer communication network. . However, even for image data normally transmitted and received in facsimile communication, for example, TIFF (Tagge
The data can be transmitted and received by a facsimile apparatus via a computer communication network if the data is converted into e-mail format data such as a d Image File Format file.

[0005]

However, when image data normally transmitted / received by facsimile communication as described above is converted into data in the form of e-mail and then transmitted / received via a computer communication network, it is indispensable for e-mail. Is added as header information.
In the receiving apparatus, the header information is recorded on the first page, and then the original first page is recorded. Therefore, each subsequent page is divided at a position different from the original page, and the original document is separated from the original page. The page break becomes unknown.

In facsimile communication, a TTI (Transmit Terminal Identifier) is transmitted from the transmitting side to the receiving side and added to the upper end of each page. In an electronic mail, the above-described header information is added first. Therefore, in the above-mentioned communication terminal device, some users may find the presence of the TTI bothersome. However, conversely, if there is no header information on each of the second and subsequent pages, it is not clear at a glance what the e-mail is.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and it is possible to select whether or not to add header information for facsimile communication when facsimile image data of a document is encoded and transmitted as electronic mail. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device having an e-mail transmission function that enables the original document to be easily identified even at the receiving side when the addition is selected.

Further, according to the present invention, when the header information for facsimile communication is added and transmitted as described above, the header information for facsimile communication is added to each page of the document to be transmitted, so that the receiving side It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device having an e-mail transmission function in which it is possible to easily determine what kind of e-mail is in each page only.

Further, according to the present invention, in the above case, the first page on which the header information of the e-mail (mail header) is printed does not include the header information for facsimile communication, thereby taking up a useless space. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device having an e-mail transmission function that avoids the above.

[0010]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a communication terminal device having a function of transmitting an e-mail composed of a main body encoding facsimile image data of a document to be transmitted and communication management information. Means for selecting whether or not to add header information for facsimile communication at the time of transmission.

In the communication terminal device according to the present invention, when a header information for facsimile communication is selected, the header information is added to each page of the original document to be transmitted and the electronic mail is transmitted. It is characterized by.

[0012] Further, the communication terminal device according to the present invention, when a selection to add the header information for facsimile communication is made, adds the header information to each of the second and subsequent pages of the original to be transmitted and sends the electronic mail. Is transmitted.

In such a communication terminal apparatus of the present invention, if header information for facsimile communication is added and transmitted,
On the receiving side, header information for facsimile communication is printed on each page of the original document at a break.

Further, it is possible to select not to add the header information for facsimile communication to the first page on which the header information (mail header) for electronic mail is printed.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings showing the embodiments. However, in the embodiment of the present invention described below, the present invention is applied to a communication terminal device configured to transmit image data to be transmitted by facsimile as electronic mail. Use the Internet.

First, the hardware configuration of the communication terminal device T according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. The communication terminal device T of the present invention has a function of communicating (transmitting and receiving) with the Internet in addition to the conventional G3 and G4 facsimile communication functions.

The CPU 1 controls each part of the hardware through a bus 12, and also performs encoding, decoding, and image (TIFF) described later.
Performs software functions such as conversion, binary / text conversion, mail editing, and communication procedures.

The reading section 2 reads an original with a scanner using a CCD or the like, and outputs dot image data converted to binary black and white. The recording unit 3 includes an electrophotographic printer or the like, and reproduces and records, as a hard copy, image data received by facsimile communication from another G3 or G4 facsimile apparatus or image data received from the Internet.

The display unit 4 includes a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a C
A display means such as an RT display is provided to display the operation state of the communication terminal device T of the present invention, to perform an input instruction at the time of operation by a touch panel method, or to transmit image data of a document to be transmitted and received image data. Display.

The operation unit 5 includes character keys, numeric keys (numerical keys), speed dial keys, one-touch dial keys, various function keys, and the like necessary for operating the communication terminal device T of the present invention. Note that the above-described display unit 4
Is a touch panel type, it is also possible to substitute some of the various keys of the operation unit 5.

The ROM 6 stores in advance various software programs necessary for the operation of the communication terminal device T of the present invention. The RAM 7 is composed of an SRAM, a flash memory, or the like, and stores temporary data generated when executing software, and also stores various tables (described later).
In the RAM 7, an A flag 7A described later is assigned to an appropriate address. When a flash memory is used as the RAM 7, the contents of the various tables are not lost even when the power is cut off due to a power failure, movement of the apparatus, or the like. The image memory 8 is composed of a DRAM or the like, and stores image data to be transmitted or received image data.

DSU (Digital Servic)
e Unit) 9 converts transmission / reception data and voltage so that it can be connected to the digital line L1 using the baseband transmission method. In this example, the modem 10 has a data modem function in addition to the conventional fax modem function. NCU (Netw
The ork control unit (11) performs closing and opening operations of the analog line L2.

The communication terminal device T of the present invention has the above-described hardware configuration, and, of course, not only functions as a normal G3 or G4 device, but also mainly converts image data converted into a TIFF file into electronic mail. It is possible to send and receive. However, since the functions for that are stored in the ROM 6 as software programs, these functions will be described below.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing the functional configuration and data flow of the communication terminal device T of the present invention. Note that parts (hardware elements) corresponding to FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals. Therefore, although details will be described later, the encoding / decoding unit 21, the image conversion unit 22, the binary / text conversion unit 23, the mail editing unit 24, and the auto dialer 25 for which reference numerals corresponding to FIG. Are functional blocks processed by the CPU 1 according to a software program stored in the ROM 6 in advance.

The encoding / decoding unit 21 encodes the dot image data read by the reading unit 2 by an encoding method such as MH, MR, MMR or the like defined by the standard of facsimile communication, and conversely, externally. And decodes the coded image data received from the storage unit 3 and outputs it to the recording unit 3 as a hard copy. Hereinafter, the image data encoded by such an encoding method is referred to as “G3 format image data”. The image memory 8 receives and stores the G3 format image data from the encoding / decoding unit 21, and conversely sends the stored G3 format image data to the encoding / decoding unit 21.

The image conversion unit 22 converts G3 format image data into a TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) format which is a general image format used in a computer at the time of transmission, and converts the image data from the TIFF format to the G3 format at the time of reception. To image data. The TIFF specification is Adobe System
Published by s company, Classes corresponding to each type are defined to handle not only black and white binary but also various data such as black and white multi-valued and full color. One of them, CLASS F, defines G3 format image data. Therefore, CL at the beginning of G3 format image data
It is possible to convert to TIFF format by performing relatively easy processing such as adding TIFF header information of ASS F. Hereafter, G3 with TIFF header information of CLASS F added
The format image data is referred to as “TIFF image data”.

The binary / text converter 23 converts the binary data of the TIFF image data obtained by the image converter 22 into text data at the time of transmission, and performs the reverse process, ie, converts the text data into binary data at the time of reception. Convert. This is because computers that cannot handle binary data e-mails are also connected to the Internet. For this reason, in order to ensure that the e-mail reaches the destination, when transmitting binary data such as TIFF image data, it is once converted to text data and then transmitted. Text data handled on the Internet is IETF (Internet Engineering
RFC (Reques
t For Comments) 822 specifies a 7-bit code.

Therefore, as an example, MIME (Multipurpose In
When converting to text data using base64, which is one of the encoding types of Internet Mail Extensions, binary data is converted into 64 types of characters (upper and lower case alphabets, numbers,
By being replaced with one of +, /), it is converted to text data. Note that MIME is described in RFC
For example, besides the above base64, "7bi
Encoding types such as “t”, “8bit”, and “binary” are specified.

The mail editing unit 24 arranges the file to be transmitted in an electronic mail format, and separates the main body and the header information (mail header) from the received electronic mail to TIFF.
Extract only image data. Specifically, at the time of transmission, the mail editing unit 24 converts the TI
Mail header information as communication management information is added to the FF image data and edited into an e-mail format.
Extracts only the TIFF image data converted into text data by separating the mail header information from the e-mail format data. Such operations by the mail editing unit 24 include:
It is indispensable to add predetermined header information to Internet e-mail because it is specified. At the time of transmission, as shown in FIG. 12, "Date:" (the E-mail date and time), "From:"
(Sender of the e-mail), "To:" (destination of the e-mail), "Subject:" (title of the e-mail, but the encoding method in the communication terminal device T of the present invention), "Cc:" (E-mail copy destination) and other header information, and separate the header information upon reception.

At the time of reception, the header information separated by the mail editing unit 24 is printed by the recording unit 3. The procedure will be described later.

The auto dialer 25 is used as hardware
The destination telephone number data is sent to the DSU 9, the modem 10 or the NCU 11 to make a call to the telephone number read from the destination table T1 and the provider table T3 existing in the RAM 7.

Here, each table will be described. In the destination table T1, as shown in FIG. 3, a destination name, an Internet e-mail address, a facsimile number, and a facsimile type (G3 or G4) are registered for each abbreviated number or one-touch dial.

As shown in FIG. 4, the user (sender) table T2 contains a user name, an Internet e-mail address, a provider type, a user ID and a password for logging in to the Internet of the communication terminal device T of the present invention. Is registered. In the case where a plurality of users share one communication terminal device at an office or the like, it is also possible to register each user and select it at the time of transmission.

As shown in FIG. 5, the provider table T3 stores the telephone number of the provider, the line type (analog or digital), the name of the provider, and the provider type used when connecting to the Internet. The provider type corresponds to the provider type in the user table T2, and is for identifying a different login procedure for each provider. When one provider has a plurality of telephone lines, or when a plurality of providers are used, each telephone number can be registered and selected at the time of transmission.

Next, a procedure for transmitting an electronic mail to the Internet will be described. The protocol used in each layer of the OSI reference modem is as shown in Table 1 below.

[0036]

[Table 1]

First, the login procedure will be described. As shown in the time chart of FIG. 6, the communication terminal device T of the present invention, when a line with a computer of a provider (hereinafter referred to as a server S) is set, for example, a PA
According to P (Password Authentication Protocol), the transmission of the user ID and the password is continued until Ack or Nack is received from the server S. When receiving Nack from the server S, the communication terminal device T of the present invention temporarily releases the line and then redials. On the other hand, Ack
Is received, the login to the server S from the communication terminal device T of the present invention is completed.

After the log-in to the server S is completed, as shown in the time chart of FIG. 7, the communication terminal device T of the present invention is a standard protocol for performing e-mail communication on the Internet, for example. SMTP (Simple Mail
Sends e-mail by using Transfer Protocol).

First, the communication terminal device T of the present invention
Make an SMTP connection request to If connection is possible, the server S returns a response code 220 to the communication terminal device T of the present invention. Further, the communication terminal device T of the present invention transmits its own domain name by a “HELO” command. On the other hand, if the server S can recognize the domain name of the communication terminal device T of the present invention, it returns the response code 250 and the domain name of the server S itself. Thereafter, the communication terminal device T of the present invention starts sending an e-mail. When the transmission of the e-mail is completed, the communication terminal device T of the present invention transmits a "QUIT" command. When the server S returns the response code 221 in response, the SMTP ends, and the transmission of the e-mail is completed.

Next, the operation of the communication terminal device T according to the present invention at the time of transmitting an e-mail will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.

First, a document to be transmitted by a user is set on a document table (not shown) of the communication terminal device T of the present invention (step S1), and an instruction is given by operating a key or the like of the operation unit 5. The provider or line to be used is selected from the provider table T3 (step S2). Further, the user himself / herself inputs a passcode for selecting a registered user name and selects it from the user table T2 (step
S3). The reason why the user name is specified by the passcode is to prevent unauthorized use by a third party. This passcode can also be used as a password for connecting to the Internet. Next, the user presses the start key (not shown) following the destination's abbreviated number,
The one-touch key is pressed to select a destination from the destination table T1 (step S4).

As described above, the selected provider or line, the user name, and the destination are temporarily stored in the RAM 7.

The communication terminal device T according to the present invention sequentially reads out all the originals on the original platen one by one as dot image data, and once encodes all the pages by the encoding / decoding unit 3 by the MMR method to G3. The image data is stored in the image memory 8 as image data in a format (step S5). And CPU1
First reads the destination specified by the user with the abbreviated number or one-touch dial and stored in RAM7,
Further, data on the destination is read from the destination table T1.

As a result, if the Internet e-mail address is not registered in the destination table T1 (step S6), the e-mail cannot be transmitted, so that the CPU 1 uses the G3 format stored in the image memory 8. Image data is converted to an analog audio signal and transmitted in G3 format or directly as a digital signal in G4 format.
(Step S7). If an Internet e-mail address is registered, the CPU 1 performs the following processing for transmitting it as an e-mail.

First, header information for facsimile communication,
That is, an optional process of whether or not to add TTI is performed (step S60). Details of the process in step S60
This is shown in the flowchart of FIG. First, a display asking the user whether to add TTI is displayed on the display unit 4 (step S61). If the user wants to add TTI, for example, "Y" of the operation unit 5 is displayed. The "key" is operated (for example, if not desired, the "N" key is operated).

Next, a display asking the user whether or not to add the TTI to all pages is displayed on the display unit 4 (step S62). By operating the "key, A flag 7A is set ("
1 ") (Step S63) (If not desired, for example, by operating the" N "key, the A flag 7A is reset (" 0 ") (Step S64).) The A flag 7A
Are allocated to appropriate addresses in the RAM 7 as described above.

Next, the CPU 1 reads data necessary for TTI from the user table T2 or the like (step S65). Specifically, the user name is read from the user table T2, and data such as the telephone number and date of the transmission source is read from a predetermined area of the RAM 7. Then, the CPU 1 reads the font data corresponding to the read data from the ROM 6 (Step S66). Next, the CPU 1 checks the state of the A flag 7A (step S67), and if set ("1"), sequentially reads all pages of the document to be transmitted stored in the image memory 8 (step S67). S68). If A flag 7A is reset
("0"), the CPU 1 sequentially reads out the second and subsequent pages of the document to be transmitted stored in the image memory 8 (step S69). Then, the CPU 1 combines the font data previously read from the ROM 6 with the upper end portion of the image data of each page read from the image memory 8, and stores it again in the image memory 8 (step S7).
0).

When the processing in step S70 is completed and when the user does not desire to add the TTI in step S61, the processing proceeds to the next step S8, and the actual transmission of the e-mail starts. Is done.

By the way, since the G3 format image data cannot be directly transmitted on the Internet, it is converted into the e-mail format as follows (step S
8). First, the image conversion unit 22 adds TIFF CLASS F header information to the head of G3 format image data to create TIFF image data. Since the TIFF image data is binary data, the binary / text converter 23 converts this into text data (step S9).

Further, the mail editing unit 24 adds an e-mail header to the TIFF image data converted to the text data (step S10). As shown in FIG. 12, this header includes at least items of “From:”, “To:”, and “Subject:”. "From:" indicates the Internet of the user selected from the user table T2 in step S3.
If the e-mail address is "To:", the Internet of the destination selected from the destination table T1 in step S4
The e-mail address is "Subject:", "TIFF (G3)" indicating that it is an e-mail containing image data in TIFF format
Are set respectively.

When the data in the electronic mail format is completed in this way, the CPU 1 makes a dial-up connection to the Internet. First, the CPU 1 determines the line type (analog / digital) of the provider selected in step S2 from the provider table T3 (step S11), and if the line is an analog line, sets the modem 10 (step S12). If it is a line, set DSU9 (step S1
3) Call the selected provider's telephone number (step S14) and wait for a response (step S15).

When the telephone line with the provider is set,
CPU1 logs in according to the PAP described above, sends an e-mail by SMTP, and logs out after the transmission is completed.
(Step S16), the telephone line is released (Step S17).

Thereafter, the CPU 1 starts a timer for 10 minutes.
(Step S18), and wait for the progress (Step S19). After a lapse of 10 minutes, CPU 1 reads out the facsimile number and type (G3 / G4) of the destination selected in step S4 from destination table T1 (step S20), and if G3, modem 10 and G4
, Set DSU9 respectively (steps S21, S2
2) Call is made (step S23). After a response from the other party's facsimile machine (step S24), the CPU 1 transmits a transmission certificate as shown in FIG. 13 as an example in the G3 or G4 procedure (step S24).
(S25), the line is released (step S26).

The transmission certificate shown in FIG. 13 will be described. The format of the transmission certificate itself is registered in ROM6 in advance, and the communication time (year, month, day, am / pm,
Hours, minutes), destination, sender, simple text notifying that the e-mail was sent (or done), information about the sent (or done) email, and sent (or done) ) Part of the image data is displayed.

The information on the e-mail includes transmission date and time, destination, source, data type, number of pages,
The amount of data is displayed. The transmission date and time are automatically displayed by a clock built in the communication terminal device T of the present invention. As the destination, the Internet e-mail address of the destination selected from the destination table T1, which is the "To:" part of the header of the e-mail, is displayed. The sender is displayed as the Internet e-mail address of the user selected from the user table T2, which is the "From:" part of the header of the e-mail. The data type is "Sub" in the email header
In addition, "TIFF (G3)", which is a part of "ject:", is displayed, the number of pages is the number of pages of the document, and the data amount is the data amount after conversion to TIFF image data.

In the above-described embodiment, after transmitting image data such as a manuscript as electronic mail to the Internet, notification is made by G3 or G4 facsimile after a predetermined time (10 minutes in this example) has elapsed. Therefore, at the time when the recipient receives the facsimile, some time has elapsed since the sender transmitted the e-mail to the Internet, so that the e-mail can be received immediately after performing a predetermined procedure. Become. This predetermined time may be appropriately set according to the situation of the receiver, the situation of the line, and the like. Also,
Since binary data is converted to text data,
It is possible to send an e-mail reliably.

It should be noted that not only the above-described embodiment but also a configuration in which an e-mail is transmitted to the Internet after facsimile notification of the transmission of the e-mail to the Internet in advance to the destination. Is also good. In this case, even if the recipient tries to receive the e-mail, it may not yet reach the server on the recipient side, but can immediately know that the sender has transmitted the e-mail.

Further, transmission of electronic mail to the Internet and notification by facsimile may be performed in parallel. In this case, since it is necessary to use two lines at the same time, the digital line L1 is used for e-mail transmission, and the analog line L2 is used for facsimile transmission (however, limited to the G3 system). As described above, by performing the transmission of the electronic mail to the Internet and the notification by the facsimile in parallel, the entire processing time can be reduced.

Further, it is of course possible to transmit data other than black and white binary image data, for example, black and white multi-valued, color image data to the Internet as electronic mail. The same applies to data other than image data, such as audio and moving images.

Further, the effects of the present invention can be obtained in a computer communication network other than the Internet, for example, a computer communication network such as a LAN in a business office.

The electronic mail transmitted from the communication terminal device T of the present invention to the Internet as described above can of course be received by a communication terminal device having the same configuration as the communication terminal device T of the present invention. . In other words, the communication terminal device T of the present invention receives an e-mail transmitted by the communication terminal device having the same configuration as the communication terminal device converting the TIFF image data into text data and transmitting the text data.
It is possible to perform inverse conversion to TIFF image data and further return to the original dot image data.

When the electronic mail transmitted as described above is received by the communication terminal device T of the present invention as described above, for example, when TTI is added to all pages, the schematic diagram shown in FIG. The first received as
A mail header MH is printed at the top of the page, followed by TTI 101 of the first page of the document, and the first half OB1 of the first page of the body of the document is printed at the remaining portion.
On the received second page, the remaining portion of the first page of the document body, that is, the latter half portion OB2, is printed from the top, followed by TTI 102 of the second page of the document,
The first half OB3 of the second page of the body of the document is printed on the remaining portion. On the received third page, the remaining part of the second page of the manuscript body, ie, the latter half part OB4, is printed from the top, followed by TTI 103 of the third page of the manuscript, and the remaining part is printed. The first half OB5 of the third page of the text of the manuscript is printed.

When a TTI is added only to the second and subsequent pages and transmitted, the result is as shown in the schematic diagram of FIG. That is, the received first page contains the mail header MH.
Is printed at the top, and the first half OB1 of the first page of the body of the document is printed at the remaining portion. On the received second page, the remaining part of the first page of the document body, that is, the latter half part OB2 is printed from the top, and then the second page of the document is printed.
The TTI 102 of the page is printed, and the first half OB3 of the second page of the body of the document is printed on the remaining portion. On the received third page, the remaining part of the second page of the manuscript body, ie, the latter half part OB4, is printed from the top, followed by TTI 103 of the third page of the manuscript, and the remaining part is printed. The first half OB5 of the third page of the text of the manuscript is printed.

As described above, when the TTI is added to all pages of the original and the electronic mail is transmitted from the communication terminal device T of the present invention, the TTI for facsimile communication is printed at the end of the original original page. Therefore, the original user can understand the original document configuration. When the TTI is added to only the second and subsequent pages of the original and the electronic terminal is transmitted from the communication terminal device T of the present invention, the received first page includes the mail header MH and the original original. Only the first half of the first page is printed, and the TTI is not printed. However, since the mail header MH is printed at the top of the first page on the receiving side, there is no inconvenience even if the TTI is not printed. Therefore, if it is troublesome to print the TTI on the first page of the receiving side, or if it seems that space is wasted, the second
TTI may be added after the page.

In the above embodiment, the G3 and G4 systems are taken as examples of facsimile communication, but the present invention is not limited to these, and it goes without saying that facsimile communication systems of other systems may be used. No.

[0066]

As described in detail above, when an e-mail transmitted from the communication terminal device of the present invention is received by the receiving device, header information for facsimile communication is provided between each page of the original document. (TTI) is inserted, so that the original configuration of the original can be easily understood.

Further, since it is possible to select to transmit an e-mail without inserting the TTI as described above, when it is considered that there is no obvious space for the TTI to be printed on the receiving apparatus. Can be transmitted without adding TTI.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of a communication terminal device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing a functional configuration and a data flow of the communication terminal device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the contents of a destination table.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the contents of a user (sender) table.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of contents of a provider table.

FIG. 6 is a time chart showing a procedure for logging in to a server by the communication terminal device of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a time chart showing a procedure for communicating an electronic mail to the Internet by the communication terminal device of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure when the communication terminal device of the present invention transmits an e-mail.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the communication terminal device of the present invention when transmitting an e-mail.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure of the communication terminal device of the present invention when transmitting an e-mail.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an operation procedure when the communication terminal device of the present invention transmits an e-mail.

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the content of a header of an e-mail transmitted by the communication terminal device of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a transmission certificate transmitted to an electronic mail destination by the communication terminal device of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram showing an example in which an e-mail transmitted by the communication terminal device of the present invention is printed by a receiving device.

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram showing an example in which an e-mail transmitted by the communication terminal device of the present invention is printed by a receiving device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 3 Recorder 7 RAM 21 Encoder / decoder 22 Image converter 23 Binary / text converter 24 Mail editor

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A communication terminal device having a function of transmitting an electronic mail composed of a main body encoding facsimile image data of a document to be transmitted and communication management information,
A communication terminal device having an e-mail transmission function, comprising means for selecting whether or not to add header information for facsimile communication when transmitting an e-mail. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said header information is added to each page of the document to be transmitted when said means selects to add header information for facsimile communication. A communication terminal device according to claim 1. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the header information is added to each of the second and subsequent pages of the original to be transmitted when the means for adding header information for facsimile communication is selected by the means. The communication terminal device according to claim 1, wherein