JPS62160870A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily distribute reception recording paper by each recipient by designating the storage location of the reception recording paper in response to an opposite destination recipient of the storage location of the reception recording paper. CONSTITUTION:A reception registration code from a demodulator 24 is fed to a control circuit 34 at reception, its registration code is fed to a collation circuit 32 through a signal line 34f and plural recipient registration code data storing a read pulse are fed a storage circuit 30 from the circuit 34 and both the code data are collated. In this case, a compare pulse is fed to the storage circuit 30 from the circuit 34 and the collation mode is executed. As a result, when the content of the received recipient registration code is coincident with the reception registration code stored in advance in the circuit 30, the data representing the coincidence is fed to the circuit 34 and a sorter 26. Thus, number of stages of the storage location corresponding to the collated recipient registration code is designated and the reception recording paper is stored automatically.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine having a sorter function.

[Prior Art] A conventional facsimile machine sequentially discharges the received recording paper into a receiving recording paper storage location such as a tray according to the order in which image information is received.

For this reason, on the receiver side, there is a problem in that it takes time and effort to classify the received recording sheets by recipient or by receiving group (hereinafter simply referred to as "receiver"), which impedes work efficiency.

In particular, many copies of one facsimile machine.

If one person in the department is using it, the number of recipients will be large, and the recipients will be checked and identified each time by looking at the ejected reception record paper, and the reception record will be recorded for each recipient. Since the paper must be sorted, there is a problem in that the journalizing work is complicated.

[Object of the Invention] The present invention has been made in response to the above-mentioned problems of conventional devices, and an object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile device that can easily sort received recording sheets for each recipient. That is.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

The facsimile machine l has a sending system IA, a receiving system 1B,
It is composed of a control circuit 34 that controls these, and an auxiliary circuit system provided in association with the control circuit 34.

An NCU (network control unit) 2 connected to the telephone line 2a controls connections to the telephone exchange network.

Switching to data communication, and even more.

It has a function of replenishing the loop. A telephone 4 and a facsimile machine 1 are connected to the NCU 2 . In addition, NCU2 is.

As will be described later, its operating mode is controlled by control pulses from the control circuit 34.

In this example, when the control pulse is at the rQJ level, the telephone line 2a is connected to the telephone set 4, and when the control pulse is at the "1" level, the facsimile machine l is controlled so that it can transmit and receive.0 Normal use In the state, the control pulse is
0'', and the telephone line is connected to the telephone 4 side.

The transmitting system IA and the receiving system IB are a birefringence circuit 6.
The signal from the transmitting system IA is transmitted to the telephone port &aZ a side via the vibration lift circuit 6, and the received data from the telephone line 2a side is transmitted via the hybrid circuit 6 to the receiving system IB side. It is now sent to .

Next, the transmission system IA will be explained.

The image reading circuit 8 is composed of an image pickup device such as a COD (7mm loading device) and an optical system, and sequentially reads a signal of 1 line/minute in the main scanning direction from the original to be transmitted, and converts it into black and white images. It converts into a value signal sequence (referred to as image data). The converted image data is supplied to the encoding circuit 10 via the signal line 8a. The encoding circuit 10 encodes image data by MH (Modified Huffman) encoding or MR encoding.
This is a (modified read) encoding circuit, and the encoded image data is supplied to the first modulator 12 via the signal line 10a.

The second modulator 10 includes the well-known CCITT recommendation V27t.
Data modulation is performed based on er (differential phase modulation) or V29 (quadrature modulation). The modulated image data (first modulation data) is transmitted via the signal line 12a,
The signal is supplied to an adder circuit 16.

On the other hand, during facsimile transmission, a one-procedure signal is supplied to the second modulator 14 via the signal line 34b derived from the control circuit 34, and data is modulated. The second modulator 14 performs data modulation based on the well-known CITT recommendation V21, and the data-modulated procedure signal (second modulation data) is sent to the adder circuit 16 via the signal line 14a. By being supplied, the signal is added to the first modulation data and then supplied to the hybrid circuit 6 via the signal line 16a.

Next, the reception system IB will be explained.

The received data via the vibration lift circuit is sent to the signal line 6a.
is supplied to the first demodulator 18 via.

The first demodulator 18 is configured according to the known CCITT Recommendation V27te.
r or V29, and the demodulated data is supplied to the decoding circuit 2o via the signal line 18a.

The decoding circuit 20 converts the demodulated data into MH det+ or M
R decoding. The decoded received data is
By being supplied to the recording circuit 22 via the signal line 20a, the black and white binary signals are sequentially recorded line by line on a predetermined recording paper.

In addition, the received data via the hybrid circuit 6 is @
The signal is supplied to the second demodulator 24 via the seed line 6a. The second demodulator 24 is also a demodulator that performs data demodulation based on the well-known CCITT recommendation V21, and the demodulated data is supplied to the control circuit 34 via the signal line 24a.

Note that the procedure signal obtained from the control circuit 34 is mixed with data specifying the storage location of the received recording paper provided in the tray, as will be described later. Similarly, the data demodulated by the second demodulator 24 also includes data corresponding to the receiving recording paper storage location designated by the transmitting side.

Now, the sorter 26 provided in the facsimile machine l is
The received recording sheets are classified according to the recipient specified by the transmitter. For example, when using a sorter with 9 stages of receiving recording paper storage areas, it is possible to classify 8 recipients.

The remaining 1-level reception recording paper storage location is used when the sending side has not specified the reception recording paper storage location, or when the transmitter side has specified the reception recording paper storage location, but the facsimile 'It gll side This is the storage location where all the received records are stored if the recipient code has not been registered.

Now, in relation to the control circuit 34, the key operation section 2
8 is provided. This key operation section 28 is
This is a key station that stores the recipient code or inputs the transmission code when transmitting to the other party's facsimile.

In this example, the key operation section 28 and the control circuit 34
, a plurality of signals 1128a and 28b.

28 cmc is connected, and by keying in the full alphabet from A to Z, the signal data is supplied to the control circuit 34 via the signal line 28a.

Similarly, when a number from 0 to 9 or a predetermined symbol key such as the "book" key is pressed, a signal corresponding to each key is supplied to the control circuit 34 via the signal line 28b, and further starts. - When a key is pressed, a start signal is supplied to the control circuit 34 via the signal line 28c.

Furthermore, the control circuit 34 is provided with a memory circuit 3o,
This memory circuit 34 is a circuit that records the recipient code, and is backed up by a power source such as a battery. The memory circuit 30 has addresses corresponding to the number of storage locations provided in the sorter 26, and in the case of a nine-stage sorter 26, it is a memory having at least nine addresses.

As for the memory content, for example, the registration code is A for the recipient who stores the reception recording paper in the first storage location, B for the recipient who stores it in the second storage location, etc. Selected. Between the control circuit 34 and the memory circuit 3o, in addition to the signal line 30a for exchanging data, there are also signals jig34d and jig34d corresponding to read/write pulses from the control circuit 34 side.
34e is provided.

Further, a verification circuit 32 is provided to verify the recipient code included in the received data and the recipient code pre-stored in the storage circuit 30 of the facsimile machine Ht, and the verification result is transmitted to the signal The data is supplied to the control circuit 34 via the line 32a, and the resulting data is transmitted to the sorter 26 via the signal line 34. As a result, command data representing a storage location corresponding to the data of the verification result is supplied, and the corresponding storage location is automatically selected.

For this reason, the receiver code data included in the received data is transmitted from the control circuit 34 via the signal line 34f.
The signal is supplied to the verification circuit 32, and is also supplied from the storage circuit 30 to the verification circuit 32 via the signal line 30b.
A comparison of both code data is executed. In this case, after the recipient code data is supplied from the control circuit 34 to the verification circuit 32, nine verification pulses are supplied from the control circuit 34 side to the verification circuit 32 through the signal line 34g.

Next, an example of recipient code data will be explained.

First, the key operator is the alphabet - / ) key rFJ
Then, by pressing the "a" key, rFI
The signal J is input, and the recipient registration mode is executed based on this signal. Thereafter, by pressing the number of stages, in this example, the "book" key, the number of stages of the storage location is specified.

Then, enter the data representing the recipient. After typing the code representing the recipient, again press the alphabet key ``
By manually pressing the "F" key, the recipient registration mode is completed.

By inputting these data manually, each data is sent to the signal Wj 30a through the control circuit 34.
This data is supplied to the storage circuit 30.
supplied to Also, by supplying the write pulse from the sub-control circuit 34 to the memory circuit 30a, the memory circuit 30a
The recipient registration code of recipient A is stored at a predetermined address in 0. By sequentially executing such a recipient registration mode for each storage location, in this example, the registration code of the recipient corresponding to each of the eight storage locations is input.

Now, when receiving a facsimile, the receiver registration code is supplied from the second receiver IA 24 to the control circuit 34, and the registration code is supplied to the collation circuit 32 through the signal line 34f, and the registration code is supplied from the control circuit 34. A read pulse is supplied to the storage circuit 30, a plurality of recipient registration code data stored in the storage circuit 30 is supplied to the verification circuit 30,
Both code data are compared.

In this case, the verification mode is executed only after the control circuit 34 supplies the conveyor pulse to the verification circuit 30.

As a result of the verification, the contents of the received recipient registration code,
If the recipient registration code stored in advance in the storage circuit 30 matches, the data indicating the match is sent to the control circuit 34.
The data is supplied to the sorter 26, and the number of stages of the storage location corresponding to the verified recipient registration code is designated. Therefore, the received recording paper is automatically stored only in the designated storage location.

Note that if the transmitter side does not specify a recipient registration code in the facsimile reception ffIr, or if the recipient registration code specified by the transmitter side and the recipient registration code stored in the storage circuit 30 do not match, Unmatched data is sent to control circuit 34, in which case sorter 26
Settings to switch to the 9th stage storage location are automatically performed.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of sorter control performed by the control circuit 34.

First, as an initial state jL in the facsimile machine, a control pulse of signal level "0" is transmitted to N via the signal line 34a.
The telephone line 2a is supplied to the CU2 and is connected to the telephone set 4 side.

Now, the control program starts and checks whether the recipient registration mode has been selected (540). Registration of the recipient code is as described above.

In the facsimile device 1, if the recipient code is not registered, that is, if the recipient registration mode is not selected, the presence or absence of the facsimile reception mode is checked (S44), and if it is not the reception mode, the
Return to 40.

On the other hand, if the receiver registration mode is selected, the receiver code is registered (S42), and the presence or absence of the reception mode is determined, and if it is the reception mode (S44), that is, the signal line 34a is When the signal level of the supplied control pulse is "1", the telephone line 2a is connected to the signal line 2C by the NCU 2, so the facsimile machine 1 shifts to the reception mode. When the facsimile machine J1 is switched to the reception mode, a pre-facsimile reception procedure is executed (S46), and it is determined whether a recipient has been designated (S48).

This can be determined by identifying the sender's recipient registration code inserted in the received data as described above, and if the recipient name registration code exists, the reception! Verification processing of the 5 registered coats and designation of the storage location in the sorter 26 are executed (S52).
If the recipient registration code does not exist, the storage location in the ninth row is designated (550), the image is transmitted (S54), and the post-facsimile transmission/reception procedure is executed (556).

Thereafter, the process returns to 540 and the same control program is repeated.

Note that after the post-procedure process is completed in S56,
Control W of the signal level “0” sent from the control circuit 34
/(Based on the route, the NCU 2 connects the telephone line 2a to the telephone set 4.

In the above embodiment, -111 recipients and one group are assigned to one stage of the sorter 26, but the above-mentioned one stage may be assigned to each of multiple recipients or multiple groups. good.

[9. Bright Effect] According to the present invention, there is an effect that reception recording papers can be easily sorted for each reception name.

4. I>tl width explanation of figure Wj FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of the control operation of the control circuit used in the above embodiment.

26...Sota, 32... Verification circuit, 34...control circuit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] What is claimed is: 1. A facsimile device having a sorter configured with a plurality of storage locations, the facsimile device being characterized in that a storage location for received recording paper is specified according to a destination recipient or a destination receiving group.