JPH1065906A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an eccentric blank from being produced only in a final page in the case that received image information is rotated by 90 deg. and the rotated information is recorded on roll paper depending on a size of received image information and that rotated information is outputted on the roll paper by a plurality of pages. SOLUTION: A control section 1 compares paper width and paper length of received image information with roll paper width. In the case of rotating the received image information by 90 deg. and recording the rotated information, when it is discriminated that the paper length of the received image information is larger than the roll paper width, the received image information is divided equally by number of recording paper pages required for the recording and outputted to respective pages by a plotter 5. Furthermore, in the case of the communication before the transmission of image information with an image transmitter side facsimile equipment, the paper width larger than the paper width of the provided roll paper is informed to the image information transmitter side facsimile equipment.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus capable of recording received image information on roll paper by rotating the received image information by 90 degrees in accordance with the size of the received image information. Facsimile machine that can output evenly on each page, and record the received image information to the right or left of the roll paper, and a line or a line indicating one side of the standard paper on the margin side of the image information The present invention relates to a highly convenient facsimile apparatus having a function of recording an identification image corresponding to a line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been provided a facsimile machine provided with roll paper for recording received image information.
In such a facsimile apparatus, when the paper width of the received image information is wider than the roll paper width, the received image information is rotated by 90 degrees and output on roll paper. Also, in the case of outputting on a cut sheet of a standard size, when the paper width of the received image information is wider than the paper width of the cut sheet, the facsimile apparatus which similarly rotates the received image information by 90 degrees and outputs it on the cut sheet. Is also provided. Further, there has been provided a facsimile apparatus such as the facsimile apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-151368, in which the roll paper width is rotated by 90 degrees because the width of the roll paper is too large relative to the paper width of the received image information. For example, if the roll paper width is A3
In the case of width, when image information of A4 size is received in A4 width, if it is output to roll paper without rotating by 90 degrees, a blank space is generated in the width direction of the roll paper, and the roll paper is wasted correspondingly. Accordingly, in such a facsimile apparatus, in such a case, the A4 size received image information is rotated by 90 degrees and output. Then, the longitudinal direction of the received image information is stored in the roll paper having the width of A3, and no waste occurs in the roll paper. Further, in the image rotation processing apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-251139, when the data amount of the input image information is too large and the rotation processing cannot be performed with a predetermined storage capacity of the image information storage area, the rotation is performed. Processing for reducing input image information to a size that allows processing is performed.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In the related art disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-151368, no special consideration is given to recording over pages, so that received image information rotated by 90 degrees does not have a margin in the roll paper width direction. However, even if the image information of each page of the received image information is advanced to the previous page on the roll paper and output, or output to the next page and output, large margins may occur on the last page. is there. This problem cannot be solved by the reduction processing disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 6-251139. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional technology as described above, and to provide a facsimile apparatus in which when a plurality of pages are rotated and output on roll paper, a margin that is not offset only on the last page is not generated. It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus having a highly functional function.

[0004]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the received image information is rotated by 90 degrees according to the size of the received image information and recorded on roll paper. In a facsimile machine, a size comparison unit that compares the paper width and paper length of the received image information with the roll paper width, and when the received image information is recorded by rotating it by 90 degrees, the paper size of the received image information is When it is determined that the length is larger than the roll paper width, a received image information output means for equally dividing the received image information by the number of recording paper pages required for recording and outputting the information to each page.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the facsimile apparatus according to the first aspect, at the time of communication with the image information transmitting side facsimile apparatus before image information transmission, a paper width larger than the paper width of the provided roll paper is set. The facsimile apparatus on the image information transmitting side is notified. According to a third aspect of the present invention, the facsimile apparatus according to the first aspect further includes a line generating means, which is necessary when the recording area of the received image information to be recorded on the roll paper is recorded so as to fit within the standard paper size. The received image information is equally divided by the number of pages of the recording paper, and the right side or the left side of the roll paper is recorded, and a line indicating one side of the standard paper or an identification image corresponding to the line is recorded by the line generating means. The image information is recorded on the margin side. According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the facsimile apparatus for recording received image information on roll paper, a line generating means is provided, and a recording width for recording received image information on roll paper is a standard paper size smaller than the roll paper width. In this case, the received image information is recorded on the right or left side of the roll paper and recorded, and a line indicating one side of the standard paper or an identification image corresponding to the line is recorded on the margin side of the recorded image information by the line generating means. It was configured.

[0005]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, it is determined that the paper length of the received image information is larger than the roll paper width when recording the received image information by rotating the image by 90 degrees. Then, the received image information is equally divided by the number of recording paper pages required for recording, rotated by 90 degrees, and output to each page. In the invention according to claim 2,
The image information transmitting facsimile apparatus can transmit image information having a paper width larger than the roll paper width provided in the receiving facsimile apparatus. According to the third aspect of the present invention, the received image information spanning a plurality of pages is equally divided into each page of the standard size, and is recorded so as to be rotated 90 degrees and to be shifted to the right or left of the roll paper, and further recorded in a shifted manner. A line indicating one side of the standard paper or an identification image corresponding to the line is recorded on the margin side of the image information in the longitudinal direction of the roll paper. According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the received image information is recorded so as to be shifted to the right or left of the roll paper, and furthermore, a line indicating one side of the standard paper or a line-equivalent identification is provided on the margin side of the image information which has been shifted and recorded. An image is recorded in the longitudinal direction of the roll paper.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to each embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the facsimile apparatus has a control unit 1 for managing and controlling the entire apparatus according to a built-in program, a keyboard for an operator to give instructions to the facsimile apparatus, and a facsimile apparatus for giving a message to the operator. An operation display unit 2 composed of display means, a RAM 3 for temporarily storing image information, a scanner 4 for reading an image on a document, and a received image information decoded by an encoding / decoding unit (DCR) 8 5 via a RAM 3, a network control unit (NCU) 6 for setting up a call with a remote facsimile machine via a public telephone network, G
(3) A communication control unit 7 for performing facsimile transmission / reception in accordance with a transmission control procedure, a modem 9 comprising a low-speed modem and a high-speed modem, an image memory 10 for storing image information, and a control battery for storing control information for power-off. It includes a parameter memory 11 that has been backed up, an image rotation unit 12 that rotates received image information by 90 degrees, and the like. Control unit 1
Has a size comparison means for comparing the paper width and paper length of the received image information with the roll paper width, and a received image information output means for equally dividing the received image information by the number of pages required for recording and outputting the information to each page. The size comparing means and the received image information output means are constituted by a CPU, a ROM having a built-in program, and the like.

Hereinafter, the operation of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, there is an incoming call from the image information transmitting side (S
1). Then, the control unit 1 instructs the communication control unit 7 to notify the image information transmitting side of the recording paper width of the receiving side (S2). However, the width of the recording paper to be notified is wider than the width of the roll paper actually provided in the plotter 5. For example, even if the width of the roll paper is A4 width or B4 width, A
3 Notify that reception is possible. As shown in FIG. 3, the notification of the paper size (paper width) is performed by the NSF signal or the like in the case of the G3 transmission control procedure (FIG. 3A), and the RDCLP signal in the case of the G4 transmission control procedure (FIG. 3B). And so on. Subsequently, image information is received (S3). The received image information is stored in the image memory 10 as encoded data via the communication control unit 7 as shown in FIG. 4, and is decoded by the encoding / decoding unit 8. Are counted. The information obtained at the time of communication prior to image information reception (phase B in the case of the G3 transmission control procedure) and at the time of image information reception is stored in the RAM 3 for the part A in the file configuration as shown in FIG. The unit is stored (stored) in the image memory 10 together with the image information.
In this example, the file of the part A contains the reception time, the telephone number of the transmission side device (transmission station TSI), the number of pages, the page information storage memory address at the time of taking over, and the like. The file of part B contains the total number of lines, next page address, line density, encoding mode, document width, image information, and the like. The total number of lines in the file of the part B is a value counted by the control unit 1 as described above.

When the reception is completed, the size comparing means
The width of the received image information (received document width) stored in M3 is compared with the roll paper width registered in advance in the parameter memory 11 or the like (S4). If they are equal or the received image information width is smaller (No in S4), the size comparison means subtracts the rotation recording margin allowable length WL from the roll paper width of the received image information length (original length). It is determined whether the value is smaller than the value (S5). This determination is made in order to prevent the margin from increasing due to rotation, and the rotation recording margin allowable length WL is registered in advance in the parameter memory 11 or the like. The received image information paper length is obtained from the total number of lines of the received image information (see FIG. 5).

If it is determined in step S5 that the length of the received image information sheet is smaller (Yes in S5).
s) The received image information output means performs the recording on the roll paper as it is without rotating (S6). FIG. 6 shows a data flow when recording on roll paper. As shown in the figure, first, the encoded data stored in the image memory 10 is read out.
From the file showing the configuration. Then, referring to the linear density information and the encoding mode of the image information in the file shown in FIG. 5, the encoding / decoding section 8 decodes the image information (encoded data) based on these. Subsequently, the decoded image information is stored in the RAM 3 and output to the plotter 5 without rotation by the received image information output means. On the other hand, when it is determined in step S4 that the received image information width is larger than the roll paper width (Yes in S4), and in step S5, the received image information paper length is smaller than a value obtained by subtracting WL from the roll paper width. If it is determined that there is no paper information (No in S5), it is determined whether the length of the received image information paper is larger than the roll paper width (S7). If it is not large (No in S7), it is decrypted and R
The received image information stored in the AM 3 is sent to the image rotating unit 12, where the image is rotated by 90 degrees, and an image of one page is output to roll paper (S8) (see FIG. 6). If the received image information paper length is larger than the roll paper width (Yes in S7)
s) The received image information output means calculates the number of pages X required for output by the following equation (1). “Received image information paper length [mm] ÷ roll paper width [mm] = x
+ Y (y is a remainder) If y <a (a value sufficiently smaller than 1), X =
x If y <a, then X = x + 1 "(1) Further, the amount of image information to be equally divided and output to one page is calculated by the following equation (2). The total number of lines of the received image information ÷ X (2) Thus, the received image information output means sends the image information to be output to the first page to the image rotating section 12, where it rotates 90 degrees and outputs it to roll paper. Similarly, two or less pages are output (S9).

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the facsimile apparatus according to the second embodiment, when the control unit 1 includes a line generating unit and outputs B4 width received image information to A4 width roll paper P as shown in FIG. In addition to rotating and recording, the recording width in the roll paper width direction is set to the maximum B5 width, and the recording area is shifted to the right or left (FIG. 7 is an example shifted to the right), and one side of the B5 width standard paper is shown. A line L is generated and output. In FIG. 7, two upper and lower dotted lines are cutting lines that the cutter provided in the facsimile apparatus of this embodiment automatically cuts when outputting an image to roll paper P. As described above, since the upper and lower sides are cut at the width of B4, if the user subsequently cuts manually along the line L, a recording sheet of the same size as the cut sheet of the B5 size can be obtained.

FIG. 8 shows each roll paper width (A4, B
4, A3) for each received image information width (A4,
4 shows a recording state when the image information of B4, A3) is received. "210-182 shown in the portion corresponding to the received image information width B4 in the roll paper width A4 indicates the position where the line L is formed. That is, 28 mm obtained by subtracting the B5 width 182 mm from the A4 width 210 mm (from the left end of the roll paper) Is the position of the line L. In this case, the received image information output means
For each line, first, white data of 28 mm is output, and then black data of a predetermined number of pixels indicating the line is output.
Outputs the image information of the corresponding line in. In FIG. 8, the combination indicated by “0” indicates that the position of the line L is the left end,
That is, this indicates that no line is required. For example,
In the case of the received image information width A3 with respect to the roll paper width A4, 90
If the recording is performed from the left end to the right end after the rotation, the output becomes the same as the output to the cut sheet of A4 size. As described above, according to the second embodiment, even if various kinds of standard size received image information are output to the fixed width roll paper, the standard size recording paper corresponding to the received image information can be easily obtained. Since it is possible, the size of the output recording paper is unified, and the convenience is improved. Although FIG. 7 illustrates the case of right alignment, it may be left alignment. The line L indicating one side of the standard paper may be an identification image corresponding to a line such as a dotted line or a dashed line instead of a straight line. The line L can also be formed in the same manner, for example, when outputting A4 width received image information on B4 width roll paper without rotating.

[0012]

As described above, according to the present invention,
According to the first aspect of the present invention, when it is determined that the paper length of the received image information is larger than the roll paper width when the received image information is to be rotated by 90 degrees and recorded, the received image information is necessary for recording. Is divided equally by the number of recording paper pages and rotated by 90 degrees and output to each page, so that the margins of each page are equal, and this equal amount of margin can be used for binding margin and the like. According to the second aspect of the present invention, the image information transmitting side facsimile apparatus can transmit image information having a paper width larger than the roll paper width. Therefore, the chance of obtaining a clear image on the receiving side increases.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the received image information spanning a plurality of pages is equally divided into each page of a standard size, rotated 90 degrees, and recorded so as to be shifted to the right or left of the roll paper. A line indicating one side of the standard paper or an identification image corresponding to the line is recorded in the longitudinal direction of the roll paper on the margin side of the image information that has been recorded together, so that the standard size is added to the effect of the invention according to claim 1. Output paper can be obtained. Further, in the invention according to claim 4, the received image information is recorded so as to be shifted to the right or left of the roll paper, and a line or a line corresponding to one side of the standard paper is provided on the margin side of the image information which has been shifted and recorded. Is printed in the longitudinal direction of the roll paper, so that the output paper automatically cut off from the roll paper at the standard size is cut along the recorded line, etc. Obtainable.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to each embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIGS. 3A and 3B are transmission control procedure diagrams of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a data flow diagram of a main part of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a file configuration diagram of a main part of the facsimile apparatus showing the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is another data flow diagram of the main part of the facsimile apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a main part of a facsimile apparatus showing a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is another explanatory view of a main part of the facsimile apparatus showing the second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Control part (size comparison means, received image information output means, signature generation means) 3 RAM 5 Plotter 7 Communication control part 8 Encoding / decoding part 10 Image memory 12 Image rotation part

Claims (4)

[Claims] In a facsimile apparatus capable of recording received image information on roll paper by rotating the received image information by 90 degrees according to the size of the received image information, the paper width and paper length of the received image information are compared with the roll paper width. When recording the received image information by rotating the received image information by 90 degrees with the size comparing unit, when the size comparing unit determines that the paper length of the received image information is larger than the roll paper width, the received image information is recorded. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a received image information output unit that divides a required number of recording paper pages into equal parts and outputs the divided pages to respective pages. 2. A facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, at the time of communication with the facsimile apparatus on the image information transmitting side before transmitting the image information, the paper width of the roll paper is larger than the paper width of the roll paper provided. A facsimile apparatus characterized in that a notification is sent to the facsimile apparatus. 3. The facsimile apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a line generating means, wherein the recording paper required when the recording area of the received image information to be recorded on the roll paper is recorded so as to fit within the standard paper size. The received image information is equally divided by the number of pages, and it is recorded on the right or left side of the roll paper, and a line indicating one side of the standard paper or an identification image corresponding to the line is recorded by the line generating means. A facsimile machine characterized in that recording is performed on the side. 4. A facsimile apparatus for recording received image information on roll paper, comprising a line generating means, wherein the recording width for recording the received image information on roll paper is a standard paper size smaller than the roll paper width. Is recorded to the right or left side of the roll paper, and a line indicating one side of the standard paper or an identification image corresponding to the line is recorded on the margin side of the recorded image information by the line generating means. Facsimile machine characterized.