JPS6292673A - Communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily detect a reception station receiving same picture information which is multiple address communicated at a reception side, by transmitting information concerning all multiple address communication destinations to each communication destination as picture information from a communication equipment which multiple address communicates the same picture information to plural destinations. CONSTITUTION:A control part 30 sends character information, which is stored in a character generator 26 in accordance with name code numbers or the like of multiple address communication destinations preliminarily and consists of a dot matrix, to a picture memory 27 and prepares a list of communication destinations in the picture memory 27 as picture information which can be transmitted by facsimile. The picture of an original 13 is read and is converted to digital data and is stored in a picture memory 21. The control part 30 calls designated destinations successively with telephone numbers and transmits information of the original 13 stored in the picture memory 21. At this time, picture information of the list of broadcast destinations stored in the picture memory 27 is synthesized through a synthesizer 28 and is transmitted from a MODEM 29 to a line.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a communication device such as a facsimile device having a broadcast function.

[Prior Art] Facsimile machines that broadcast the same image information to multiple destinations have been known in the past. This type of device is used in a facsimile network of a company's head office, branch office, business office, etc., for example, to transmit the same document from the head office to each business office or branch office.

Conventional devices of this kind are known to transmit the source and destination as code information or image information together with original image information to be transmitted.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] However, since conventional devices transmit only the source and destination, it is not possible for the receiving side to know to which other departments the same information is being sent. There wasn't. Therefore, in the past, in order to find out to which department a manuscript has been sent to other than the sender, it is necessary for the sender to create a list of recipients and resend it as new image information. This placed a heavy burden on the originating operator. The work of creating this list is troublesome, and there is a possibility that errors may occur, such as writing information on the list that is different from the actual broadcast recipients.

Furthermore, if the broadcast cannot be made due to a failure of the recipient's terminal or the line is in use, the intended recipient may differ from the actual recipient. Therefore, there is a problem that the list can only be created after all transmissions have been completed.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above problems, in the present invention, in a communication device that broadcasts the same image information to a plurality of destinations, information regarding all broadcast destinations is displayed in each broadcast destination. We adopted a configuration that includes a means for transmitting information.

[Function] With the above configuration, the receiving station that receives the broadcast can know which other receiving stations have received the same image information in addition to its own station, and the transmitting side can create a list of various broadcast destinations. This simplifies the work and prevents errors such as discrepancies between the list and the actual destinations.

[Example] The present invention will be described in detail below based on an example shown in one drawing.

Practical Example FIG. 1 shows the external appearance of a facsimile machine according to a first embodiment of the invention. Similar to known devices, this device is equipped with a reading device 14 using a CCD line sensor or the like in the center of a case 12, and by reading the document 13 loaded on the document table 13a on the right side, the image information of the document 13 is simply obtained. It is transmitted to one receiving station or broadcast to multiple receiving stations.

A keyboard 15 is provided on the upper surface of the front side of the apparatus in FIG. 1 for controlling the operation of the apparatus.

The keyboard 15 has, for example, a key arrangement as shown in FIG.

As shown in the figure, a display 19 composed of a liquid crystal display or the like is provided in the center of the keyboard 15 in order to display the communication status, input the telephone number of the other party, display registered contents, etc. There is. On the left side of the display 19, a broadcast key 18 for specifying broadcasting, an image quality mode key, and other keys are provided, and on the front side of the display 19, a start key 17 and a stop key for specifying the start or stop of communication are provided. is provided. Also, the right half of the keyboard 15 is
This is a one-touch key 16 for specifying a destination.

The telephone number of a desired receiving station can be set on the one-touch keys 16 by a known control using a numeric keypad (not shown) corresponding to each key. Therefore, when sending a message, the one-touch key 16 can be used to dial the telephone number of the other party without inputting various telephone numbers. In addition, when performing one broadcast, press the broadcast key 18 to read the original, and then operate the one-touch key 16 corresponding to the destination to which you want to broadcast the same address to the specified broadcast destinations in order. image information is sent.

The control system of the device is constructed as shown in FIG. The operation of the entire device is controlled by a control section 30. Manuscript 13
The image is read by the reading unit 14, converted into digital data in a predetermined format via the image sensor controller 20, and stored in the image memory 21.

The image data in the image memory 21 is sent to the modem 29 via a synthesizer 28 comprising an adder, etc., and is modulated by the modem 29 using a predetermined method and then transmitted to a line.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, another image memory 27 is provided, and this image memory 27 is capable of storing image information consisting of character data in a dot matrix formed by the character generator 26. ing. This image information constitutes a list of broadcast destinations, as will be described later.

On the other hand, a data memory 24 is provided to store telephone numbers of a plurality of broadcast destinations, and the telephone numbers stored in this data memory 24 are read out via a memory driver 25 in response to a broadcast command.

The designation of the telephone number to be read is done by the broadcast address controller 23. The determination of the broadcast destination is done by the keyboard 1.
The information specified by the one-touch key 16 of 5 is converted into digital data of a predetermined method by the key controller 25, and this digital data is sent to the broadcast address controller 2.
3. Uke is done by taking.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be explained.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart regarding broadcast transmission control by the control section 30 of FIG.

When broadcast transmission is designated by operating the broadcast key 18 of the keyboard 15, the control section 30 receives the designation input of the broadcast destination in step Sl in FIG. As a result, the key controller 22 and the broadcast address controller 2
3, the telephone number of the corresponding broadcast destination in the data memory 24 is read out and prepared for use in the event of a call.

Subsequently, in step S2, the control unit 30 sends character information composed of dot matrix stored in advance in the -I-+ character generator 26 according to the name code number of the broadcast destination to the image memory 27, and transmits the character information to the image memory 27. A list of destinations is prepared in the image memory 27 as image information that can be transmitted by facsimile.

Subsequently, in step S3, the original 13 loaded on the original table 13a in FIG.
The image is read, converted into digital data, and stored in the image memory 21.

Next, the control unit 30 sequentially calls the telephone numbers of the specified destinations, and when the other party responds, sequentially reads the information on the document 13 stored in the image memory 21 and transmits the information. The image information of the stored list of broadcast destinations is synthesized via the synthesizer 28 and transmitted from the modem 29 to the line.

Therefore, the image information of the multicast destination list is added to the image information of the multicast manuscript in the manner shown in FIGS. 5 to 8.

5 to 8 show the recording results on the receiving side.

In the example shown in FIG. 5, the destination, date, and sender information 2 are recorded on the upper edge of the original 1 using a method similar to that known in the art. Further, following the image information 3 of the manuscript, image information 4 of the list of broadcast destinations is recorded. This manuscript is addressed to the Sapporo office, and the Sapporo office can know from the image information 4 that the image information of the same manuscript has been sent to the Osaka branch, London branch, and Paris branch.

In FIG. 6, the image information 6 of the list is recorded at the beginning of the image information 5 of the manuscript to be broadcast, and in this case, a double circle 7 (◎) is recorded at the beginning of the name of the destination, indicating the destination. information about other broadcast destinations is also recorded. This double circle 7
is generated by the character generator 26 in FIG. 3 like other character information.

In the example of FIG. 7, list information is also recorded at the beginning of the image information that is similarly broadcast.

In the case of FIG. 7, other multicast destinations are recorded in parentheses 9 after the destination name 8.

In the example shown in FIG. 8, the image information to be broadcast is 3
In such a case, a list is sent in which the broadcast destination 9 date and sender information are recorded on a separate recording paper 10 from the image information to be broadcast.

In addition to the formats shown in FIGS. 5 to 8 shown above, countless formats of the list to be recorded and outputted on the receiving side can be considered, but the same effect can be obtained with any of the embodiments.

11 Ura 1" Above, an example was shown in which a list of broadcast destinations is sent at the same time as a broadcast, but Figures 9 and 1θ show an example in which a list is automatically sent after the broadcast ends. FIG. 10 shows the procedure for broadcast transmission and the recording result of the broadcast destination list, respectively.

The configuration of the apparatus used is exactly the same as that shown in FIGS. 1 to 3.

FIG. 9 shows the operation of the control unit 30 when performing broadcast transmission, and steps 51 to S3 in the figure are almost the same as steps S1 to S3 in FIG. 4, except that step S2 In the list creation in , the character generator 26 does not create list image information, and the control unit 3
A list of multicast destinations is created by reading the information on the multicast destination telephone numbers in the data memory 24 into the control memory of No. 0.

In the broadcast in step S4, unlike in FIG. 4, no list is transmitted, and only the image data read in the image memory 21 is transmitted as in the conventional case. Step S4
indicates transmission to one broadcast destination, and step S
4, if transmission is impossible, the destination is stored in step S5. As is well known, facsimile machines cannot send if the line is in use or if the machine is out of order, but devices that perform automatic transmission like this ring at least three times and still fail to send. Abort the call if it is not possible.

Therefore, in step S5, only those destinations to which transmission could not be performed even after calling a predetermined number of times or more are stored in the control memory.

Subsequently, in step S6, it is determined whether the transmission to the scheduled multicast recipients has been completed.

If the process has not been completed, the process returns to step S4 and the same operation is repeated.

When the broadcast is completed, the process moves to step S7, and the character generator 26 forms a list of broadcast destinations as image information in the image memory 27 in the same manner as described above. At this time, the image information configured in the image memory 27 is as shown by reference numeral 6 in FIG. 1O, in which each destination to which the broadcast was sent is listed, and the list is placed at the beginning of the destinations as in the embodiment of FIG. 6. to 2
It is configured with a heavy circle 7. Furthermore, the code 6'
At the bottom of the list of destinations for which broadcasting was successful, a list of destinations for which broadcasting was not possible (in this case, only the London fulcrum) is added. Further, if the cause of the failure to broadcast is known, as in the case of reference numeral 6'', image information indicating the cause is included (in this case, the line is in use).

Subsequently, in step S8, the image memory 2 is stored as shown in Fig. 1θ.
The image information in the list of multicast destinations configured in 7 is transmitted to each multicast destination. At this time, of course, transmission is also performed to destinations to which broadcasting was previously impossible.

Subsequently, in step S9, the same image information as that transmitted in step S8 is recorded and outputted using the recording/outputting device (not shown in FIG. 3) of the apparatus.

According to the above configuration, as described above, each multicast destination can know the destination of the multicast information, and can also know the destinations to which multicast is not possible. Furthermore, since the list at the broadcast transmitting station is recorded as in step S9, it is possible to easily determine whether or not to transmit the image information again, and the content of the broadcast communication is recorded as a document. This greatly facilitates communication management later.

[Effect] As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, in a communication device that broadcasts the same image information to multiple destinations, information regarding all broadcast destinations is transmitted as image information to each broadcast destination. Since the system has a configuration that provides a means for broadcasting, the receiving side that receives the broadcast can easily know what kind of receiving station is receiving the same image information, making post-transmission operations easier. It has the great advantage of being smooth.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the configuration of a facsimile device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the keyboard of the device shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 shows the configuration of the control system of the device shown in FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the control procedure of the control unit in FIG. 3, and FIGS. An explanatory diagram showing a different embodiment, FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a communication control procedure different from that in FIG. 4, and FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing image information sent under the control shown in FIG. It is an explanatory diagram. 15...Keyboard 16...One-touch key 1
8... Broadcast key 19... Display 21.27.
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Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) A communication device that broadcasts the same image information to a plurality of destinations, characterized in that each broadcast destination is provided with means for transmitting information regarding all broadcast destinations as image information. Device. 2) The communication device according to claim 1, wherein the information regarding all broadcast destinations includes information regarding whether or not the broadcast transmission is possible, and is transmitted to each destination after the broadcast ends.