JPH1117926A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide facsimile equipment in which it is not required to generate a new reply original and not to make the reply original complicated. SOLUTION: The facsimile equipment is provided with a scanner 1 that reads a received original, a line counter 2 that compresses data of the received original read by the scanner 1 in the subscanning direction, a print buffer 5 that stores tentatively compressed data, and a printer 6 that receives data stored in the print buffer 5, adds a header consisting of transmission/reception information and a footer with comments on contents of the received original described thereon to the received original and prints out a reply original.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile apparatus for transmitting image information such as documents and photographs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, the following two methods are used to reply to a document received by facsimile. One is a method of creating a new reply document and transmitting it. Another method is to reply by adding the address and comment of the other party to the margin of the received document.

[0003]

However, according to the former, since a new document must be transcribed, it takes time to reply. Further, according to the latter, the characters of the received document and the characters added for reply are mixed, so that the text is complicated and hard to see.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile apparatus that does not create a new reply document and does not complicate the reply document.

[0005]

In order to solve this problem, a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention has a reading means for reading a received document, and compresses the data of the received document read by the reading means in the sub-scanning direction. Data compression means, data storage means for temporarily storing compressed data, and reception of the data stored in the data storage means, and entry of a header composed of transmission / reception information and comments on the contents of the received document. And a printing unit that prints a reply document by adding at least one of the footers that can be used to the reply document. This eliminates the need to create a new reply document. There is no complication.

[0006] The header of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes:
Source data registered in advance can be printed as transmission information. Thereby, the reply operation can be further shortened.

[0007]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reading means for reading a received document, a data compression means for compressing data of the received document read in the sub-scanning direction by the reading means, At least a data storage means for temporarily storing the compressed data, and a footer capable of receiving the data stored in the data storage means and writing a comment on the header of the transmission / reception information and the content of the received document. A facsimile machine having a printing unit for printing a reply document by adding either one to a received document, and has an effect that it is not necessary to newly create a reply document. In addition, there is an effect that the characters of the received document and the characters added for reply are not separated and the reply document is not complicated.

[0008] The invention described in claim 2 of the present invention provides:
According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a facsimile apparatus in which transmission source data registered in advance is printed in a header as transmission information, and has an effect that a reply operation can be further shortened.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an example of printing by the facsimile apparatus of FIG. is there.

As shown in FIG. 1, a facsimile apparatus according to the present embodiment comprises a scanner (reading means) 1 for reading a received document 10 (FIG. 3A), and a sub-scanning of the received document 10 read by the scanner 1. A line counter (data compression means) 2 for compressing data in a direction, a print buffer (data storage means) 5 for temporarily storing compressed data, and a header 8 to be described later which receives data stored in the print buffer 5.
A printer (printing means) 6 that prints a reply document 11 (FIG. 3B) by adding a reply document 11 and a footer 9. Also,
A memory in which source data such as a user ID, a user's telephone number, or a facsimile number is registered, that is, a source ID for displaying a source at the time of facsimile transmission.
It has a storage unit 4. The operations of the scanner 1, the line counter 2, the print buffer 5, the printer 6, and the sender ID storage unit 4 are controlled by the central processing unit 3.

Further, the facsimile apparatus has the key input unit 7 for executing printing of the reply document 11 in which the header 8 and the footer 9 are added to the received document 10 as described above. In the present embodiment, by operating the key input unit 7, the contents of the transmission source ID storage unit 4 are printed on the header as transmission information. However, the contents of the sender ID storage unit 4 may not be printed.

Here, the line counter 2 is, for example, 4
In one line scanned by one line, the data of the third line is deleted and the data is printed on the first, second and fourth lines.
Therefore, by performing such an operation for each row, a quarter of the data is thinned out, and the received document 10 is compressed to 75% in the sub-scanning direction. The number of lines to be read, the number of lines to be deleted, and the line position can be freely set without being limited to the above description. Instead of deleting the predetermined number of lines, a plurality of lines may be extracted and averaged, and may be compressed by replacing the averaged line with the extracted line. Further, the received document 10 may be reduced using an optical system.

The header 8 is printed at a position in front of the received document 10 compressed as described above, and has a destination (T
O) and a source (FROM). The address,
If necessary, the information includes a company name, a department name, an addressee, and the like. The sender also includes a company name, a department name, a sender name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and the like, as necessary. Accordingly, by providing such a header 8 to the received document 10, the recipient and the sender can be specified at the destination. When the contents of the sender ID storage unit 4 are printed, a part of the contents concerning the sender is printed, but otherwise, all necessary contents are manually input. .

The footer 9 is printed at a position behind the compressed received document 10, and functions as a space for entering a comment on the contents of the received document 10, that is, a comment column. Therefore, by entering and transmitting a predetermined comment in the footer 9 which is a comment section of the received document 10, the recipient can obtain an answer to the inquiry.

The operation of the facsimile apparatus thus constructed will be described with reference to FIGS.

First, the received document 10 is set on the scanner 1 and the key input unit 7 is operated to depress a copy key for printing the reply document 11 with the header 8 and the footer 9 attached to the received document 10 (step). S1). Here, as shown in FIG. 3A, the received document 10 generally has contents of a request or an inquiry. The copy key may be shared with another key.

When the copy key is depressed, the central processing unit 3 sequentially stores the ID and telephone number data stored in the transmission source ID storage unit 4 and other predetermined data in the print buffer 5, and stores these data in the printer. 6 is printed line by line. Thereby, the header 8 shown in FIG.
Is printed (step S2).

Next, the line counter 2 is set to "0", that is, initialized (step S3), and the scanner 1 reads document data one line at a time for a total of four lines (step S4). Then, it is checked whether the line counter 2 has read the third line, that is, whether the line counter 2 has become "3" (step S5). If the line counter 2 is "3", the process returns to step S3 without printing the line, and the line counter 2 is initialized again. On the other hand, if the line counter 2 is not "3" in step S5, the read data is stored in the print buffer 5 (step S6). Then, "1" is added to the line counter 2 (step S7). By repeating such an operation, a quarter of the received document 10 is thinned out.

Then, the end of the reading of the original is checked (step S8). If the reading of the original is completed, the process proceeds to step S9, where the received original 10 stored in the print buffer 5 is read.
Is printed. The received original 10 is 4
Since one part is thinned out, it is compressed and printed to a size of 75% in the sub-scanning direction (see FIG. 3B). If the reading is not completed, the process returns to step S4 to read the received document 10 to the end.

Finally, in step S10, the print image data in the comment column is sequentially stored in the print buffer 5, and the printer 6 prints the footer 9 as shown in FIG.

By such a series of operations, FIG.
As shown in (1), a reply document 11 consisting of a header 8 composed of transmission / reception information, a compressed reception document 10, and a footer 9 for entering a comment is printed out.

Accordingly, if predetermined information is entered in the header 8 and the footer 9 by using such a reply document 11 and then transmitted to the other party, the sender needs to create a new reply document. The reply work can be completed within a short time. Further, since the characters of the received document 10 and the characters added for reply are properly separated, the reply document 11 does not become complicated, and the recipient does not feel the text is complicated and difficult to see.

In this embodiment, the header 8
And the footer 9 are printed, but only one of them may be printed.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, a received original is compressed in the sub-scanning direction, and before and after that, a reply original is printed by adding a header including transmission / reception information and a footer capable of writing a comment. Therefore, it is possible to obtain an effective effect that it is not necessary to newly create a reply document. Thus, an effective effect that the reply operation can be completed in a short time can be obtained.

Further, according to the present invention, a received original is compressed in the sub-scanning direction, and a return original is printed with a header consisting of transmission / reception information and a footer in which a comment can be entered before and after that. Therefore, an effective effect is obtained that the characters of the received document and the characters added for reply are separated, and the reply document is not complicated. And
As a result, an effective effect that the recipient does not feel complicated and difficult to see the text is obtained.

Further, according to the present invention, by printing the transmission source data on the header as transmission information, it is possible to obtain an effective effect that the reply operation can be further shortened.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the facsimile apparatus of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of printing by the facsimile apparatus of FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Scanner (reading means) 2 Line counter (data compression means) 5 Print buffer (data storage means) 6 Printer (printing means) 8 Header 9 Footer 10 Received document 11 Reply document

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. Reading means for reading a received document, data compression means for compressing data of the received document read by the reading means in a sub-scanning direction, and data storage means for temporarily storing the compressed data And adding at least one of a header composed of transmission / reception information and a footer capable of entering a comment on the content of the received document while receiving the data stored in the data storage means. A facsimile apparatus having a printing means for printing a reply document. 2. A facsimile apparatus characterized in that source data registered in advance is printed on said header as transmission information.