JPH02216971A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To decrease the number of sheets of originals to be transmitted for reduction of the transmission time and to reduce the consumption of the recording paper at the reception side by synthesizing with reduction plural sheets of originals to be transmitted into a single sheet of original. CONSTITUTION:The originals read at a reading part 1 are outputted to a store circuit part 2 as the picture information 12, and the part 2 stores the picture information equivalent to four sheets of originals. A reducing/synthesizing part 3 takes out the stored picture information every sheet and reduces it down to 1/4. This reduced picture information equivalent to four sheets of originals are synthesized into a single sheet of picture information. A reduction rate setting part 6 sets the reduction rate at 1/4 and outputs a reducing rate designating signal 63 to the part 3. The part 3 synthesizes with reduction the picture information equivalent to four sheets of original into a single sheet. This reduced and synthesized information is coded at a coding circuit part 4 and transmitted via a communication control part 5 based on the facsimile communication control procedure. Thus the transmission time is shortened together with reduction of a large quantity of recording paper consumed at the reception side when a large number of originals are transmitted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a facsimile machine that edits and transmits document information.

[Conventional technology]

A conventional facsimile machine sets a plurality of documents to be transmitted on a transmission stand, compresses and encodes image information read from the automatically fed documents, and transmits the compressed and encoded image information.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional facsimile machine reads each original to be sent one by one and sends it, so it takes a long time to send when a large number of originals are sent, and the receiving side uses a large amount of recording paper. There are drawbacks.

[Means to solve the problem]

The facsimile apparatus of the present invention includes a reading section that outputs image information read from a transmission document, a storage circuit section that accumulates the image information, and a reduction rate setting section that outputs a reduction rate and a composite value of the transmission document. and a reduction and synthesis circuit section that converts and outputs the image information stored in the accumulation circuit section according to the reduction ratio and the synthesis value.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

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

A reading unit 1 reads a document to be sent and outputs image information 12
, an accumulation circuit section 2 that accumulates the image information 12 from the reading section 1, and a reduction synthesis section that reduces the image information of a plurality of documents stored in the accumulation circuit section 2 and outputs image information that is synthesized into one document. a circuit section 3; a reduction rate setting section 6 for setting a reduction rate;
It has an encoding circuit unit 4 that encodes reduced and synthesized image information, and a communication control unit 5 that executes a communication procedure with a facsimile.

The operation of reducing and combining four originals into one original and transmitting the result using this apparatus will be explained.

The original read by the reading unit 1 is output as image information 12 to the storage circuit unit 2, and the storage circuit unit 2 stores image information for four originals.
The image information stored in is taken out one by one and reduced to 1/4. When the reduction of the four pieces of image information is completed, they are combined into one piece of image information. Also, the reduction rate setting section 6 has a 1/
4 is set, and the reduction ratio designation signal 63 is sent to the reduction synthesis circuit section 3.
It is output to. The image information obtained by reducing and synthesizing the four documents into one document by the reduction and synthesis circuit section 3 is encoded by the encoding circuit section 4 and transmitted via the communication control section 5 according to a facsimile communication control procedure.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention reduces the number of documents to be transmitted, reduces transmission time, and reduces transmission time by reducing and combining multiple transmission documents and transmitting them as one document. This has the effect of reducing the consumption of recording paper.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Reading section, 2... Accumulation circuit section, 3... Reduction/synthesis circuit section, 4... Encoding circuit section, 5... Communication control section, 6... Reduction rate setting section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a reading section that outputs image information read from the transmitted document;
a storage circuit unit that stores the image information; a reduction rate setting unit that outputs a reduction rate and a composite value of the transmission document; and converts the image information stored in the storage circuit unit according to the reduction rate and composite value. 1. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a reduction synthesis circuit section for outputting