KR19980057469A - How to Voice-Identify Information on Fax - Google Patents

Abstract

end. The technical field to which the invention described in the claims belongs:

The present invention relates to a voice information identification method in a facsimile.

I. The technical problem the invention is trying to solve:

Conventionally, the TTI is printed with the fax message of the sender, but in the case of the facsimile provided in the office where a large number of employees work, the reception status was confirmed by checking the received manuscript.

All. The gist of the solution of the invention:

The present invention reads the voice information corresponding to the identification information received from the sending side facsimile from the numeric memory and mixes the read voice information with the additional voice message stored in the voice memory to output identification information guide message. Implement the guidance method.

la. Important uses of the invention:

Facsimile with an answering machine.

Description

How to Voice-Identify Information on Fax

The present invention relates to a function of outputting identification information of a facsimile, and more particularly, to a method of guiding voice identification information received from a sending side facsimile.

In general, a facsimile is a device for transmitting image information connected to a telephone line and performing modem communication. In the above-described facsimile, when the document information is transmitted, the identification information of the facsimile of the transmitting side is generally transmitted. Such identification information is called transmission terminal identification (TTI). The TTI is transmitted when the transmitting terminal performs the protocol according to the ITU recommendation before transmitting the document information. The TTI information includes a terminal telephone number of the sender and identification information of the sender. The TTI configured as described above was printed as 0bTEL: 460-2755 SEC0c on the top of the fax message document received and printed by the terminal on the receiving side. In order to print the TTI as a character, a character code is required, a character font must be registered in a memory to enable character processing, and an ASCII code must be prepared as a character code for designating a character font. For example, if the information of ASCII code 1 is received as the TTI, a character code corresponding to 0 is first determined, and 0 is registered in the area corresponding to the character code of the memory. By the above operation, the remaining TTIs 0, 1 are also printed.

Summarizing the above-described process of outputting the TTI, the TTI is included in the protocol as a constant ASCII code value and received from the sending side facsimile, and the TTI having the received ASCll code is converted into image data and the fax message is printed. It is printed at the top.

Conventionally, the TTI is printed with the fax message of the sender, but in the case of the facsimile provided in the office where a large number of employees work, the reception status was confirmed by checking the received manuscript. In addition, the received originals could not be immediately confirmed, so that the received originals were often lost.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention to solve the above problems is to provide a method for guiding the identification information received during the protocol by voice.

1 is a block diagram of a fax according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a control flowchart for guiding voice identification information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. First, in adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals are used for the same components, even if displayed on different drawings. In describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The configuration of the facsimile according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1, and the controller 10 controls the overall operation of the facsimile according to the control program stored in the ROM 26. The network control unit (NCU) 12 connects the telephone line to the modem 14 under the control of the controller 10, detects an incoming ring, and provides the received ring to the controller 10. The modem 14 demodulates a modulated signal input through the NCU 12 and modulates a signal to be sent to the telephone line through the NCU 12. OPE (Operating Panel) 16 is composed of a plurality of keys for setting or commanding the functions provided by the facsimile, and provides the control unit 10 with key data by pressing the keys. In addition, the OPE 16 has a display window for displaying the current operating state of the facsimile under the control of the controller 10. When the transmission or copying mode is set, the scanner 18 reads the supplied document under the control of the control unit 10, converts the document into image data, and provides the image to the control unit 10. The printer 20 prints the received image data or the read image data under the control of the controller 10. The answering machine 32 includes a voice processing unit 36, a codec 34, and a voice memory unit 38 to reproduce an out going message (OCM) or to record an in coming message (ICM). The voice processor 36 processes a digital signal for binary encoding a digital signal input and output to the codec 34. The voice processor 36 has a RAM for storing numeric data provided from the controller 10 therein. The voice memory unit 38 stores data provided by digital signal processing from the voice processor 36.

The ROM 26 stores a control program executed by the controller 10. The RAM 28 stores image data received or read under the control of the control unit 10 when a specific function of the facsimile is performed, or temporarily stores data generated when the facsimile performs a function. The RAM 28 also stores the received fax document even when the recording sheet runs out while receiving the fax document.

2 is a control flowchart for guiding a received identification code by voice according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an embodiment according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the control flowchart shown in FIG. 2 with reference to the above-described configuration of the facsimile.

If the incoming ring is detected through the NCU 12 in step 210, the controller 10 controls the NCU 12 to form a call loop. When the call loop is formed, the controller 10 proceeds to step 212 and proceeds with the protocol stored in the ROM 22. By protocol is meant the protocol described in the ITU Recommendation. In step 214, the controller 10 determines whether identification information (TTI) has been received during the protocol progress. The identification information (TTI) is received on a TSI (Transmitting Subscriber Identification) protocol. If the identification information (TTI) is not received, go to step 222 to perform the function.

However, if the reception of the identification information (TTI) is detected in step 214, the flow proceeds to step 216 and temporarily stores the received identification information (TTI). On the other hand, the control unit 10 extracts the character code indicating the sender's fax number in the identification information (TTI) stored in step 218 and reads the character font corresponding to the extracted character code from the ROM 22. . The read text font is printed on the original along with the received fax message. In addition, the controller 10 proceeds to step 220 and reproduces the read text font as a voice and outputs it.

The operation of converting the text font into voice and outputting the same is as follows.

The controller 10 provides the DSP 34 with a text font corresponding to the read fax number or telephone number. The DSP 34 reads the voice data corresponding to the provided text font from the numeric memory 38, converts the voice data into voice, mixes it with additional voice messages recorded in the voice memory 36, and reproduces and outputs the voice guide message. . The output voice guidance message is provided to the user through the external speaker (28). For example, if the supplementary message recorded in the voice memory 36 is receiving a fax from ..., if the fax number 1 is provided from the control unit 10, the voice data corresponding to 0, 0, 1 is read out. The reproduced English, English, and Japanese voices are mixed and the speaker 28 outputs a message indicating that the fax is being received from English or English.

According to the present invention, when there is a fax message received, a person who needs to receive a fax message while doing other work apart from the fax when the fax number is shared by the voice of identification information, such as a telephone number of the sender, is shared by many people. You can easily tell who this is.

Claims (2)

A facsimile is provided by a facsimile machine that includes a numeric memory for storing voice information corresponding to numeric data, a voice memory for storing additional voice messages, and a digital signal processing unit for converting identification information of a transmitter into voice guidance messages. In the method, A first step of reading voice information corresponding to the identification information received from the transmitting side fax from the numeric memory; And a second process of mixing the read voice information with an additional voice message stored in the voice memory and outputting an identification information guide message. The method of claim 1, The voice information read out in the first step is a facsimile identification information voice guidance method, characterized in that the fax number of the identification information of the sending side fax.