JPS61203753A - Communication terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To process efficiently copy and communication jobs by recording reception data after copying is finished if the reception data comes during the copying and restarting the copying after the recording of reception data is finished. CONSTITUTION:Data received by a communication control section 2 is stored in a memory 3A in a control section 3 via a line 1 at the reception of normal communication. When one page's content of the reception data is inputted, the stored data is outputted from the memory 3A to a printer 4 possible for high-speed print to attain recording in response to the output. When an incoming is given during the copying, the copying is continued while the reception data is being given into the memory 3A and this operation keeps up until it is discriminated that the copying for one page's content is finished. When the copying for one page's content is finished, after the reception data is stored in the memory 3A for one page's content and printed out by a printer 4.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a communication terminal device such as a facsimile machine or a teletex machine having a printer capable of high-speed printing.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, a printer of a communication terminal device such as a facsimile machine or a teletex machine has been used in combination as a local copying function. However, because these conventional printers have slow printing speeds, they cannot print received data while copying, so they either refuse to receive data until copying is complete, or they store received data in memory until copying is complete. I was doing it. As a result, it is necessary to have a large capacity memory for storing received data, which may be a factor in increasing the product cost.

〔the purpose〕

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above-mentioned points, an object of the present invention is to provide a communication terminal device that can perform both copying work such as facsimile work and communication work at any time.

〔Example〕

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to one drawing.

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the invention.

In this embodiment, during reception during normal communication, data received by the communication control unit 2 via the line 1 is stored in the memory 3A in the control unit 3. After inputting one page of the received data, it is output from the memory 3A to the printer 4, which is a recording means capable of high-speed printing. The printer 4 performs recording on recording paper according to the output.

On the other hand, in transmission, the reader 5 reads the document, and the read contents are stored in the memory 3A of the control section 3. When one page has been read by the reader 5, the read contents are output from the communication control section 2 to the line 1.

Next, in so-called local copying, image data obtained by reading a document with the reader 5 is stored in the memory 3A of the control section 3, and when reading of one page is completed, the image data is output to the printer 4.

Next, reception during copying will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2 and the time chart of FIG. 3. Note that each control shown in FIG. 2 is performed by the control circuit 3, for example.

When an incoming call is received during copying, copying is continued while the received data is stored in the memory 3A of the control unit 3 in step S1 shown in FIG. 2, and this operation is completed in step S2. This will continue until it is determined that (See (A) in Figure 3).

When the copying of one page is completed in step S2, the received data is stored in the memory 3A for one page and then printed by the printer 4 in step S3.

This operation continues until it is determined in step S4 that reception is complete (see (B) and (C) in FIG. 3).

Next, in step S5, it is determined whether or not there is a document being copied, that is, whether copying has been completed. If there is a document, the copying operation is continued, and when copying is completed in step S5, Next step S6
At this point, a message indicating that there is received data is output to, for example, a display means or an audio means (not shown), and the state shifts to an initial state (see (A) in FIG. 3).

Note that even if a document is set on the reader 5 during reception in the flowchart shown in FIG. 2, the same processing as described above is performed.

As described above, according to the embodiment, when using a packet switching network, an INS network, etc. in G4 facsimile, for example,
Since A4 original documents can be sent and received in about a few seconds to a few seconds, even if there is an interruption during copying, the waiting time can be kept to a minimum.

Furthermore, according to this embodiment, a message indicating that external information has been received is output after copying, so even if the operator who is copying leaves the location, the received document cannot be deleted. This can prevent accidental removal.

〔effect〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, when received data arrives during copying, the received data is recorded after the copying operation is completed, and the copying is performed again after the recording of the received data is completed. Since the data is restarted, the receiving operation during copying can be easily performed by taking advantage of the high-speed recording performance of the printer serving as the recording means, and it is also possible to prevent each document from being copied and received data from being mixed together.

Further, reception and copy operations can be performed without a large capacity memory.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a control procedure of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a time chart showing an example of the operation timing of each part of this embodiment. . l...Line, 2...Communication control unit, 3...Control unit, 4...Printer, 5...Reader.

Claims (1)

[Claims] It has a recording means capable of selectively recording received external information and read information, and when the external information is received while the recording means is recording the read information, a predetermined portion of the read information is recorded. The recording operation is continued until the recording is completed, and when the completion of the recording operation is confirmed, the external information received by the recording means is recorded, and when the completion of the recording is confirmed, the A communication terminal device that records the remaining portion of read information.