JPS62157471A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform a communication which respects, to a certain extent, the privacy of each receiver by outputting only its address and file number on recording paper when receiving a picture information and outputting only received picture information of a designated file number when taking out received picture information. CONSTITUTION:A facsimile equipment, when it is set in a confidential receiving mode by the operation button in an operation display part 3, performs the following receiving operations; namely, when a transmitting original is set in the facsimile equipment of the opposite side (called the 'opposite station') and a transmission starts, a network control unit 8 detects a calling signal and switches from a telephone set to the device proper side. A system controlling part 1, while storing its file number in a picture memory 2, stores sequentially received picture information in a memory area corresponding to the file number. In a plotter 5, is outputted a recorded paper of D width in which only an address written at the transmitting side and file No. Fno recorded by the facsimile equipment are shown.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine with a confidential function.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, facsimile machines have been put into practical use that have a confidential reception function that allows image information received by the facsimile machine to be output only to a specific person. this is,
Image information received by a facsimile device is temporarily stored in an image memory, and the stored image information is not output unless a password preset in the facsimile device is input.

However, with the conventional confidential reception function, when several pieces of image information with different recipients are received and stored in memory, if one recipient enters a password, the confidential image information of all recipients will be sent. is output, which is inconvenient for recipients because they are bothered by receiving unnecessary information about others, and it is not possible to communicate with each recipient in a way that maintains a degree of confidentiality.

[Objective] It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile device that eliminates the above-mentioned inconvenience and allows confidential image information to be obtained for each recipient.

[Configuration] For this purpose, the present invention assigns a randomly generated file number to each piece of image information received and stores it in the image memory, and when a preset password and the above file number are input, the above It is designed to output image information.

The present invention will be explained in detail below.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, system control unit 1
is composed of a microcomputer system, which manages and controls the entire facsimile machine.1 Image memory 2 is a large capacity memory that temporarily stores image information during image information storage and transmission or in confidential reception mode.

The operation display section 3 includes various operation buttons, a numeric keypad, a display, etc., and is used by the operator to arbitrarily operate the facsimile machine and to display messages sent from the facsimile machine to the operator.

The scanner 4 scans the transmitted original at a predetermined resolution (for example.

The image is divided into pixels at a rate of 8 dots/meter in the main scanning direction and 7.7 lines/m in the sub-scanning direction, and each pixel is converted into a pixel signal, and the plotter 5 outputs the image at the same resolution as the scanner 4. It is recorded on recording paper and output.

The communication control section 6 executes facsimile transmission according to a predetermined transmission control procedure, and includes a modem 7 and a network control device 8 that modulate the transmitted signal and demodulate the received signal.
via a transmission line m (e.g.

connected to the public telephone network). Further, the encoding/decoding section 9 encodes the image information to be transmitted using a predetermined method to compress the amount of information, and also restores the encoded received image information to the original image information.

The file number generation unit 10 transfers the received image information to the image memory 2.
When storing the received image information, a random number generation circuit is used to generate random number information in order to assign a file number to each piece of received image information.

The facsimile machine of this embodiment is configured as described above,
First, a password is set. This password is! This is the number required when outputting the image information received in I-exhibition reception mode, and is done by setting the password registration mode by pressing the button on the operation display section 3 and inputting any 4-digit number from the numeric keypad. ,
This input password is captured and stored in the internal nonvolatile memory of the system control unit 1.

By the way, on the sending side that sends the original to the facsimile machine of this embodiment, as shown in FIG. , only the destination is entered, and communication information such as 1 message, 2 drawings, etc. is entered after the above-mentioned certain width.

Now, when the facsimile apparatus of this embodiment is set to the confidential reception mode using the operation button of the operation display section 3, the reception operation is performed as follows. That is, the other party's facsimile machine t! (hereinafter referred to as the other station), the original to be transmitted as described above is placed and transmission begins.

On the receiving side, the network control device 8 detects the calling signal and switches from the telephone to the machine main body side.

The communication control unit 6 executes a predetermined transmission procedure with the partner station in response to a control signal sent from the partner station via the modem 7, and then sequentially receives the transmitted image signals. Here, the system control unit 1 reads one of the four-digit numbers from the file number generation circuit 10.

This four-digit number becomes a file number when storing the received image information in the image memory 2. Also, this is the second
Since the number has the meaning of a password, when a plurality of pieces of random image information are stored in the memory, the numbers are set so as not to overlap.

The system control unit 1 stores the file number in the image memory 2, and sequentially stores the received image information in the memory area corresponding to the file number.6The system control unit 1 also decodes the received image information by the encoding/decoding unit 9. , the received image information is transferred to the plotter 5 and output of the received image information onto recording paper is started. At this time,
The system control unit 1 converts the file number into an image signal, replaces a part of the received image signal with the image signal of the file number, and outputs it to the plotter 5. Then, when a certain amount of received images, that is, the above-mentioned certain width is output, the plotter 5
Stop output control to.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 2(a), the plotter 5 outputs a sheet of recording paper wide enough to show only the addressee written by the sender and the file number Fno recorded by the facsimile machine.

The output recording paper is delivered to the recipient specified in the address by the operator handling the facsimile machine.

Also, when the facsimile device receives new image information next time, it will store it in the image memory with a different file number in the same way as above.
At the same time, the received image information is recorded.

A recording sheet on which only the addressee and file number Fno are visible is output and delivered to the recipient by the operator.

Now, the recipient who has been notified of the reception of the image information operates the numeric keypad on the operation unit 3 and inputs the password Pw registered in advance and the password Pw shown in FIG. 2(a), as shown in FIG. 2(b). Enter the indicated file number Fno and press the print start button.

As a result, the system control unit 1 checks the password registered in advance and the input password Pw, reads out the image information indicated by the input file number Fno from the image memory 2, and encodes and decodes the image information. conversion department 9
The images are sequentially decoded and transferred to the plotter 5, as shown in FIG.
) Output all pages of received image information shown in ) onto recording paper.

In this way, the facsimile machine of this embodiment.

If you set the confidential reception mode, only the addressee and file number will be printed on the recording paper when image information is received.

In addition, a password is required to retrieve the received image information, and only the received image information of the specified file number is output.

Therefore, at the same time, the inconvenience of extracting other people's confidential information as before is eliminated.

Since each recipient other than the operator does not know the file numbers of others, communication can be conducted with each recipient maintaining a certain level of secrecy.

Note that in the above embodiment, multiple people use the same password Pw.
We have shown an example using this, but the ID code for each individual is registered in this facsimile device in advance, and when the received image information is output, it remembers what ID guard number the person retrieved what file number, and later If it is possible to output them all at once, the confidential image information can be managed even better. In addition, a fixed width of recording paper is output at the same time as image information is received, but if this can also be retrieved by entering a password, the management of confidential image information will be further improved. .

[Effects] As described above, according to the present invention, when receiving one-stroke information in confidential reception mode, only the addressee and file number are output on the recording paper, and when retrieving received image information, the received image of the specified file number is output. Since only information is output, there is no need to take out unnecessary confidential image information of other people as in the past, and communication can be conducted while respecting the privacy of each recipient.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of recorded information outputted by the facsimile apparatus and input operations. 1... System control unit, 2... Image memory. 3... Operation display unit, 4... Scanner, 5... Plotter, 6... Communication control unit, 7... Modem, 8...
Network control device, 9... encoding/decoding section, 10... file number generation section. Agent Patent Attorney Crest 1) Makoto '・-no Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a facsimile machine that stores received image information in an image memory and retrieves the image information from a recording section by inputting a password registered in advance, a file number generation means for generating a random file number, and a file number generation means for generating a random file number; storage means for adding information to the received image information and storing it in the image memory; reception control means for converting the file number into image information and recording and outputting it on recording paper together with destination information of the received image information; A facsimile apparatus comprising: recording control means for extracting only the corresponding received image information from the accumulated received image information by key-inputting the file number, recording it on recording paper, and outputting it.