KR20060133772A - Method and apparatus for notifying reception of facsimile data - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and a device for notifying reception of facsimile data are provided to transmit MMS(Multimedia Message Service) images for representing reception of facsimile data to a mobile communication terminal, thereby helping a user to check the reception at a remote place. A method for notifying reception of facsimile data includes the steps of registering a phone number of a mobile communication terminal to check the reception of facsimile data to a corresponding facsimile machine, and selecting and setting images to be transmitted to the mobile communication terminal. The received facsimile data are determined in size and compression rates to be converted to MMS images. Received document data is analyzed per a part such as title, contents, signature and the like of a document as the document is received by the facsimile machine(S120,S140). The analyzed data is converted to the MMS images receivable by the mobile communication terminal(S160). The converted MMS images to be transmitted are combined and transmitted to the mobile communication terminal(S180). The mobile communication terminal represents the reception of the facsimile data as the combined images are transmitted to the mobile communication terminal(S220). Additional image transmission is requested to the facsimile machine via a wire/wireless communication line by a user for further checking(S240,S260).

Description

Method and apparatus for confirming reception of facsimile data {Method and apparatus for notifying reception of facsimile data}

1 is a block diagram of a typical facsimile.

2 is a flowchart of a method for acknowledging facsimile data reception according to the prior art.

3 and 4 are flowcharts of a method for acknowledging facsimile data reception according to the present invention.

5 is a block diagram of a facsimile data reception confirmation device according to the present invention;

6 is a conceptual view for explaining the operation of the method and apparatus for receiving facsimile data reception according to the present invention.

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10 ... sending side facsimile 20 ... receiving side facsimile

22 ... analysis unit 24 ... image conversion unit

26.Image adjuster 28 ... Image sender

30.Mobile communication device 50 ... Wireless and wireless communication network

100 ... central processing unit

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile device, and in particular, facsimile data for facilitating reception of facsimile data by allowing a mobile terminal to confirm receipt of facsimile data as a multimedia message service (MMS) image It relates to an acknowledgment method and apparatus.

In general, a facsimile is a communication device that decomposes still images such as texts, charts, and photographs into pixels, converts them into electrical signals, and transmits them, and restores an image like an original image using the electrical signals received from the receiving side facsimile. . The facsimile divides the original picture into several scan lines in a certain order, converts and modulates the contrast of the original into an electrical signal in order of the divided scan lines, and transmits the original picture to the receiving side facsimile through the telephone network.

Recently, as data communication using a facsimile becomes common, a large amount of information is transmitted and received through the facsimile. In particular, in the case of documents that need to be processed quickly, information exchange through facsimile is very effective, and thus, work efficiency is greatly improved. The facsimile has been continuously developed due to technology development, and various additional functions, such as scheduled transmission, broadcast transmission, automatic retransmission, and high-definition transmission, have been added, and their use is continuously expanding. In addition, recently, as the environment of the Internet communication network is rapidly spread, the Internet facsimile which is cheaper than the general facsimile usage fee has appeared and the number of users is increasing.

On the other hand, in order to transmit data using a facsimile, the facsimile must be connected to a public telephone network, and the fax number is sent by entering the number of the receiving side facsimile. That is, when a user sets a document to be sent to the facsimile, the facsimile scans the document, codes the scanned image data with a predetermined code, and stores the document. Subsequently, the built-in modem device dials the receiving fax number input by the user to open a communication path, and communicates data such as communication speed and data compression method between the faxes.

In such a facsimile, various methods of confirming reception of facsimile data are known. For example, Korean Patent Application No. 1997-011673 (name: Facsimile message reception notification method) detects a caller number received from a CO line when there is an incoming call from a CO line, and receives a fax message (data) according to the incoming line. After the termination, a call is made to the user's wireless call number to wirelessly notify the receiving party of the message with the calling party number. According to the conventional facsimile message reception notification method, when a user receives a facsimile message at his / her facsimile apparatus even at a remote location, the user can be immediately notified that the facsimile message has been received and the sender can be confirmed. 1 and 2 illustrate the configuration of the conventional method for receiving notification of a facsimile message. 1 and 2 are as it is attached to the domestic patent application No. 1997-011673.

In addition to the conventional facsimile message reception notification method as described above, a technique for confirming reception of facsimile data using SMS is known. However, all of the methods for confirming reception of a facsimile message according to the prior art include information such as a calling party number. Since the reception of the facsimile data is confirmed by transmitting only text, there is a problem of adding questions to users who need more information.

Accordingly, the technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to confirm the reception of the facsimile data with more information by transmitting the facsimile data to the mobile communication terminal as a multimedia message service (MMS) image to confirm To provide a method for acknowledging facsimile data receipt.

Another technical problem to be achieved by the present invention is to receive the facsimile data in a multimedia message service (MMS) image by transmitting to the mobile communication terminal to verify the reception of the facsimile data with more information from a remote location The present invention provides a facsimile data acknowledgment device.

In order to achieve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a method of confirming reception of facsimile data, wherein at least a part of the received facsimile data can be received at a mobile communication terminal by a multimedia message service (MMS). Converting the image to an image; And transmitting at least a part of the facsimile data converted into the image to a mobile communication terminal registered in the facsimile so as to allow a user of the mobile communication terminal to confirm that the facsimile data has been received. A data reception confirmation method is provided.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the method may include partially analyzing the received facsimile data, and the partially analyzed content may include a title part, a signature part, and a content part.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the step of setting the partial transmission of the facsimile data by the user of the mobile communication terminal; And requesting additional transmission of the necessary contents of the facsimile data after the acknowledgment image of the facsimile data is received by the mobile communication terminal.

In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for acknowledging reception of facsimile data, the content of the received facsimile data being received by a mobile communication terminal by a multimedia message service (MMS). An image converter converting the image into an image; And an MMS image transmitter for transmitting at least a part of the facsimile data converted into the image to a mobile communication terminal registered in the facsimile so that a user of the mobile communication terminal can confirm that the facsimile data has been received. A facsimile data reception confirmation device is provided.

In a preferred embodiment of the device of the present invention, a facsimile data analysis unit for analyzing the received facsimile data; An image adjusting unit for adjusting the content of the received facsimile data to an image of a desired size, dimension, and compression ratio, wherein the content partially analyzed by the analyzing unit includes a title part, a signature part, and a content part; do.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the method and apparatus for receiving a facsimile data reception according to the present invention. In the following description of the present invention, when it is determined that detailed descriptions of related well-known technologies or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted. In addition, terms to be described below are terms defined in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary according to the intention or custom of a user or an operator. Therefore, the definition should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

In the following description, when the member according to the prior art and the member according to the present invention are the same, the same reference numerals used in the prior art are used as they are, and detailed description thereof will be omitted.

3 and 4 are flowcharts of a method for confirming facsimile data reception according to the present invention, FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a facsimile data reception confirmation method according to the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a method and apparatus for confirming facsimile data reception according to the present invention. This is a conceptual diagram to explain the operation of.

5 and 6, the facsimile data reception confirmation device includes a facsimile data analyzer 22 for analyzing the received facsimile data; An image conversion unit 24 for converting the contents of the received facsimile data into an image so as to be received by the mobile communication terminal 30 by MMS; An image adjusting unit (26) for adjusting the contents of the received facsimile data into an image of a desired size, dimension and compression ratio; The at least part contents D1, D2, and D3 of the facsimile data that are controlled and converted into an image by the image converter 24 and the controller 26 are transferred to the mobile communication terminal 30 registered in the facsimile 20. An MMS image transmitter 28 for transmitting and allowing a user of the mobile communication terminal 30 to confirm that data has been received by the facsimile 20; And a central processing unit 100 for controlling each of the above-described units 22, 24, 26, 28 and the facsimile 20 as a whole. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the facsimile 20 comprising the facsimile data acknowledgment device according to the invention will preferably comprise the components shown in FIG. 1. In FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, reference numeral 10 denotes a transmitting side facsimile, 50 denotes a wired / wireless communication network for transmitting an MMS image to the mobile communication terminal 30 through the image transmitter 28, and D denotes a transmitting side facsimile. It is a document sent in (10). And, D1, D2, and D3 are the title part image, the content part image, and the signature part image, respectively, and the DN is a title part image (D1) and a signature part image (transmitted for display to the mobile communication terminal 30 for confirmation). D3) is a combined image.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the image transmitter 28 will include components for communicating with the mobile communication terminal 30. In FIG. 6, partial images other than the title portion image D1, the content portion image D2, and the signature portion image D3 are not added with reference numerals for simplicity and convenience of description.

The operation of the method and apparatus for receiving facsimile data reception according to the present invention configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 6.

First, the user of the present invention registers the telephone number of the mobile communication terminal 30 to confirm receipt of the facsimile data in the facsimile 20 (S102); Selecting and setting a target image to be displayed and transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 30, for example, a title portion image D1 and a signature portion image D3 (S104); A size, a dimension, a compression ratio, and the like for converting the received facsimile data into the MMS image are set (S106). It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the registration and setting operations performed in steps S102, S104 and S106 will be preferably performed by the operation panel 102 (FIG. 1) provided in the facsimile 20, the ROM 112, the RAM 114, and the like. Will be self explanatory.

After registration and setting are performed by steps S102, S104, and S106, the contents of the document D are received by the receiving side facsimile 20 through a public telephone network (PSTN) in the sending side facsimile 10. FIG. If (S120), the central processing unit 100 controls the analysis unit 22 to analyze the received document data in part, for example, the title portion, content portion, signature portion (S140). When the facsimile data received by the analysis unit 22 has been analyzed, the CPU 100 controls the image conversion unit 24 to receive the MMS image that can receive the facsimile data analyzed in each part by the mobile communication terminal 30. (D1, D2, D3, etc.) (S160). When the image converter 24 converts the received facsimile data into an MMS image, the size, the size, the compression ratio, and the like set by the image controller 26 are referred to.

When the facsimile data is converted into the MMS image of each part as described above, the central processing unit 100 combines the transmission target image set in step S104 and transfers the combined image DN through the image transmission unit 28 to the mobile communication. Transmission to the terminal 30 (S180). The mobile communication terminal 30 to which the combined image DN is transmitted is, of course, a mobile communication terminal registered with a telephone number in step S102.

When the combined image DN in step S180 is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 30 by the image transmitting unit 28, the user of the mobile communication terminal 30, the facsimile data to the facsimile 20 through the mobile communication terminal screen, etc. Confirm that the received (S220). After the user of the mobile communication terminal 30 checks the facsimile data reception confirmation image, that is, the combined image DN, and the contents of the facsimile data to be checked further, the facsimile 20 using the wired / wireless communication network 50. Request an additional image transmission at step S240 (S260).

If there is an additional request for facsimile data content in step S260, the CPU 100 checks the additional requested content and transmits the facsimile data image of the corresponding content to the mobile communication terminal 30 through the image transmission unit 28. (280). In addition, the requested facsimile data may be preferably limited to all of the facsimile data, and may be separately set in step S104.

As a result, the present invention converts the received facsimile data into an MMS image and transmits the received facsimile data to the mobile communication terminal so that the user of the mobile communication terminal can conveniently and effectively check the reception of the facsimile data.

The method and apparatus for receiving facsimile data reception according to the present invention as described above enables facsimile with more information by transmitting the facsimile data to a mobile communication terminal as a multimedia message service (MMS) image. This has the advantage of allowing remote reception of data reception.

Although a preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various changes without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be appreciated that modifications or variations may be made. Therefore, changes in the future embodiments of the present invention will not be able to escape the technology of the present invention.

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In the method of confirming reception of facsimile data, Converting at least a portion of the received facsimile data into an image to be receivable at a mobile communication terminal by a multimedia message service (MMS); And transmitting at least a part of the facsimile data converted into the image to a mobile communication terminal registered in the facsimile so as to allow a user of the mobile communication terminal to confirm that the facsimile data has been received. How to confirm data reception. The method of claim 1, Partially analyzing the received facsimile data, The partially analyzed content includes a title part, a signature part, and a content part. The method according to claim 1 or 2, Setting, by the mobile terminal user, partial transmission contents of the facsimile data; And And requesting further transmission of the necessary contents of the facsimile data after the acknowledgment image of the facsimile data is received by the mobile communication terminal. In the apparatus for confirming reception of facsimile data, An image conversion unit for converting the contents of the received facsimile data into an image to be received by a mobile communication terminal by a multimedia message service (MMS); And And an MMS image transmitter for transmitting at least a part of the facsimile data converted into the image to a mobile communication terminal registered in the facsimile so that a user of the mobile communication terminal can confirm that the facsimile data has been received. Fax data reception confirmation device. The method of claim 4, wherein A facsimile data analysis unit for analyzing the received facsimile data; An image adjusting unit for adjusting the contents of the received facsimile data into an image having a desired size, dimension, and compression ratio, Partially analyzed content by the analysis unit, the facsimile data reception confirmation device characterized in that it includes a title portion, signature portion and content portion.

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