JPS6024770A - Transmission stack processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To transmit to the desired address efficiently by transmitting to the desired address the mail of the picture signal having the different address stacked by recognizing the address with character recognizing functions. CONSTITUTION:A picture signal 1 is stored through a receiving section 11 to a mail memory section 13. A page end mark counter section 14 detects all page end marks 4 included in the picture signal 1, counts the bit number and it page number from a head 2 to respective page end mark 4 of the picture signal and the table corresponding to every page is stored at the mail memory section 13. A mail start page extraction section 15 extracts the following mail start page 3 by referring to the above-mentioned table based upon the recognition results (Page number) of the mail before an address recognition section 16 in order and transfers the mail start page 3 picture signal to the address recognition section 16. After transfer ends, the address recognition section 16 extracts prescribed character pattern from the picture signal of the transferred said mail start page 3 and recognizes characters, extracts the mail control information such as address, page number, etc., and informs information of page number to the mail start page extraction section 15, and informs the mail control information to mail transmission section 17.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of the Invention) The present invention relates to a stack processing method, in particular, a stack processing method that accumulates image signals, recognizes character patterns included in the image signals, and generates image signals as appropriate based on the results. The present invention relates to a mail input method that allows mails with different contents to be stacked by dividing and transmitting each divided image signal to a desired destination.

(Conventional technology) Image OCR (Optical Character
Reader) In a method that sends mail with both signals input from a device or a fax 7mm transmitter, etc. to a desired destination, the mail contains information such as the destination, page number, etc. 11 □ 11
? A method is known in which a mark sheet containing fll+ information is added and the mail is sent to a desired destination by reading the marks of the mark sort. However, the number of selection items that can be entered is limited by the size of the paper because the number of selection items that can be entered using the mark sheet increases as the number of selection items increases. For this reason, with regard to mail control information that has many selection items, input using a mark sheet has the disadvantage that it is not possible to flexibly deal with the diversity of input information.

Father, conventionally, when the fax line is idle, such as at night, ljl;;I
When sending a large amount of mail to F with different destinations and contents, it is necessary to input the connection and disconnection of the line for each destination, so it is difficult to speed up and save effort in inputting mail.

This stacks emails with different destinations and contents into one
This is because there was a drawback that it was not possible to manually divide and extract mails with different contents from the input image signal and send them to the desired destination using the input image signal.

Also, a similar method is the broadcast 1jfl i@ method, but this method 1.11: Communication for Th (Le ≧ 1) destinations, and is related to the mail output method in which one mail is sent to multiple different destinations. It is. In contrast, the present invention (
It is different from the conventional broadcast communication method because it relates to the input method of stacking and transmitting d1 multiple V-mails.

(Objective of the Invention) The present invention (d) eliminates the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks/(me, character recognition;
111! The feature is that mails with different image signals of stacked destinations can be sent to the desired destination by using destination recognition function. The object of the present invention is to provide a stack transmission based system that can accurately transmit data to a desired destination.

(Structure and operation of the invention) FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of application of the present invention, in which a sheet of mail A and its addressee α and a sheet of mail B and its addressee 2 are placed in a stack section C. When stacked and manually transmitted from the facsimile transmitter FAX, the stack transmission processing device to which the method of the present invention is applied will write destinations a and l+/recognize the characters on this paper and recognize destinations a and b. Based on this, mail A and mail B corresponding to the desired facsimile receiver FAX (Z and FAXb, respectively) are output.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing one of the image signals ψ11 inputted from the facsimile transmitter, where 1 is an image signal containing all the mails input in a stacked manner, and is input to the stack transmission processing device of the present invention. An example of a human-powered image signal is shown. 2 is the beginning of the image signal, 3 is the mail start page on which mail control information such as the handwritten address and page number is written, and the page end code 4 is sandwiched between the two and one page of images. A range 6 of the mail body consisting of a signal 5 and a page end code 4 continues, followed by another mail with a different addressee.

FIG. 3 shows the configuration of an embodiment of a stack transmission processing device to which the method of the present invention is applied, in which 1o is a signal input terminal;
11 is an image signal receiving section, 12 is an I/'i control section, J3 is a mail memory section, 14 is a page end code counting section, 15 is a mail start page extraction section, 16 is a destination recognition section, 17 is a mail transmission section,
18 is an output terminal.

Next, its operation will be explained.

An image signal 1 containing all mail sent from a facsimile transmitter or the like (not shown) is input to a signal input terminal 10. Both signal receiving sections 11 receive the image signal 1 according to a command from the control circuit 120, and store it in the mail memory section 13. After the storage is completed, the page end code i1 number unit 14 detects all the page end code 4 included in the stored image signal (for example, compressed image signal) 1 according to the command from the control unit 2, and
Each page end code 4C at the beginning of both signals (for example, compressed image signal), for example, RTC (Return to Contr.
The number of points (this is referred to as a bit position) up to the ol) code and its negative number (number) are set, and this table is stored in the mail memory section 13 by corresponding to each page.

Next, the mail start page extraction unit 15 controls! i! +1ill
! 12, the next mail start page 3 is extracted by referring to the table based on the recognition result (page number) of the previous mail by the destination recognition unit 16, and the next mail start page 3 is extracted by referring to the table.
The image signal is transferred to the destination recognition unit 1G. “After the transfer is complete,
In response to a command from the control unit 12, the destination recognition unit 16 extracts a predetermined character pattern from the transferred mail start page 30-picture signal, performs character recognition, extracts mail control information where destination/number of pages ≠, and determines the number of pages. The mail start page extraction section 15 is notified of the information, and the mail control information associated with the transmission K13'j, such as the destination, is notified to the mail transmission section 17. These series of operations are repeated until extraction of the mail control information from all the mail starters 3 included in both signals 1 is completed.

In addition, when extracting the most advanced mail starting tool 3, the initial setting value of the number of pages is determined from the destination recognition unit 16 by the mail starting page extraction unit 1.
5 will be notified.

Next, when the extraction of the mail control information is completed for all the mail start tools included in the image signal IK, the mail sending section 17, in accordance with the command from the control section 12, sends the destination recognition section J6
Based on the mail control information notified from the mail memory section 13, each mail stored in the mail memory section 13 is sequentially extracted and sent to a desired destination.

Although the above explanation has been made regarding the case of using a facsimile 7mm transmitter, the present invention is not limited to this, and can also be applied to a transmitter that utilizes an image human-powered device such as an image OCR ( Effects) As explained above, the present invention uses destination recognition with a character recognition function to send mails with stacked image signals of different destinations to a desired destination, so it is possible to write a mail control with many selection items. It has the advantage of being able to respond flexibly, and also allows you to enter a large number of emails with different destinations at once and send them efficiently and accurately to the desired destination.
This has the advantage of saving labor and speeding up email input.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of application of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an image signal input from a transmitter, and Fig. 3 is a stack transmission using the method of the present invention. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a processing device. 1 ・・・・・・Both signals including all mail, 2
......Start of image signal, 3...Mail start tool, 4...Page end code, 5...
・・・－・・・ Both signals for 1 page, 6・・・・・・・・・
Mail body range, 10... Signal input terminal, 11... Image signal receiving section, 12...
...control section, 13...mail memory section, 1
4...Page end code counting section, 15-...
...Mail start page extraction part, 16...
・Destination recognition section, 17...Mail transmission section,
18... Output terminal. Patent Applicant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation Agent Noboru Kojiwa Hoshino J Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a document communication processing system that is equipped with the ability to store images and a character recognition function, and delivers an image signal mail to a desired destination, the image signal is a mail start signal that has mail information such as the addressee and page number. page, followed by a page end code, followed by a mail body range consisting of one page or multiple pages of e-mail consisting of a page's worth of 1iii signals and a page end code, and then the addressee's address in the same way. It has a configuration in which different mail start pages are successive, and this image signal is input, a page end code added to each page is detected, and the bit position and negative number of the page end code from the beginning of the image signal are calculated. δ”, the end-of-page code divider section, the destination recognition section that recognizes the destination and page number of the mail by identifying the characters written on the mail start page, and the next page number based on the recognized page number. It has a mail start page extracting section that extracts the start page of mails with different destinations following , and a mail sending section that sends the mails to the destinations based on the recognized destinations. A stack transmission processing method characterized in that a mailbox is sent to each of its destinations.