JPH0358662A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the restriction time for the operator at the reception by inputting information relating to the total sheet number of transmission originals to an initial identification signal sent in preceding over data transmission reception and displaying the total sheet number and the received accumulated number. CONSTITUTION:A transmission sheet number recognition section 1 recognizes an original sheet number to be sent in advance through the designation of the operator at the transmitter A side and the confirmed transmission sheet number is informed to the receiver side while being included in an initial identification signal as a binary signal. A receiver B recognizes a binary signal of a transmission sheet number for the initial identification signal informed from the sender side and counts sheet number received from the start of communication and displayed in a way that the total sheet number received from a communication control section 2B and the count sheet number from a sheet count section 3 are confirmed externally. Thus, the time after the equipment finishes the reception and when the transmission is enabled is estimated, the operator desiring transmission uses the equipment efficiently.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention is applied to a facsimile machine. In particular, it relates to the hand that displays the number of pieces communicated at the time of reception.

〔overview〕

The present invention, as an operating means of a facsimile machine, incorporates information regarding the total number of documents to be sent into an initial identification signal sent prior to data exchange, and displays this total number and the cumulative number of received documents. This makes it possible to shorten the time that an operator is restricted during reception.

[Conventional technology]

In the conventional example, there was no means to check the number of communication sheets sent to the receiving side during reception.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

As described above, in the conventional example, there is no means to check the number of communication sheets during reception, and therefore, if the operator wants to transmit during reception, he cannot check the remaining number of sheets to be received.
There was a drawback that the operator had to wait in front of the device until the reception was completed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile machine that eliminates such drawbacks and allows confirmation of the remaining number of received pages.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention relates to a facsimile machine equipped with a communication control section having a means for sending an initial identification signal from a transmitting side device to a receiving side device prior to sending and receiving facsimile data, which is related to the total number of originals to be transmitted inputted by an operation. The communication control unit includes a transmission number recognition unit that recognizes number of sheets information, and the communication control unit includes a first means for including the number of sheets information detected by the transmission number recognition unit in the initial identification signal, and the number of sheets included in the initial identification signal that arrives. a number counting section for accumulating the number of incoming manuscripts, and a total number of manuscripts related to the number information extracted by the second means and the number of manuscripts accumulated by the number counting section. and an external display section including a display area for display.

[Effect]

The transmitter side recognizes the number of originals to be transmitted in advance as specified by the operator, and notifies the receiving side of the confirmed number of sheets to be transmitted as an initial identification signal as a binary signal. The receiver side recognizes the binary signal of the number of sheets to be transmitted in the initial identification signal notified from the transmitter side, counts the number of sheets received since the start of communication, and calculates the total number of sheets to be received from the communication control unit. The number of sheets counted from a counting section is displayed so that it can be confirmed from the outside.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of this embodiment. This embodiment comprises a transmitter Δ, a receiver B, and a telephone line 9, as shown in FIG.
The receiver B includes a document reading section 8, an image memory section 7, an operation section 6, a transmission number recognition section 1, a communication control section 2A, and a line control section 5A. It includes a control section 2B, a sheet number counting section 3, and an external display section 4. That is, this embodiment includes a communication control section 2 having means for transmitting an initial identification signal from a transmitting side device to a receiving side device prior to sending and receiving facsimile data, and furthermore, as a feature of the present invention, The communication control unit 2 includes a transmission sheet number recognition unit 1 that recognizes sheet number information related to the total number of transmission originals inputted by an operation, and the communication control unit 2 includes a first means for including the sheet number information recognized by the transmission sheet number recognition unit 1 in an initial identification signal. and a number counting unit 3 which has a second means for extracting the number information included in the incoming initial identification signal and totals the number of incoming originals, and the total number of originals related to the number information extracted by the second means. and an external display section 4 including a display area for displaying the total number of original sheets in the sheet number counting section.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be explained. Transmission number recognition unit 1
recognizes the number of originals transmitted from transmitter A. The means for recognizing the number of sheets to be transmitted in the number-of-transmission recognition section 1 include a number-of-transmission specifying means in which an operator inputs the number of sheets to be transmitted from the operation section 6 of the apparatus, and a means for specifying the number of sheets to be transmitted by reading the original in advance with the document reading section 8 and storing it in the image memory section 7. There is a memory transmitting means that stores and transmits the stored data. The number of sheets to be transmitted information from the number of sheets to be transmitted recognition section 1 is notified to the communication control section 2A which controls the communication procedure of the apparatus, and the communication control section 2A includes the number of sheets to be transmitted information in the transmission parameter of the initial identification signal. The line control unit 5A converts the initial identification signal from the communication control unit 2A into analog and sends it to the telephone line 9.
It is sent to receiver B, which is the line destination. The line control unit 5B of the receiver B receives the initial identification signal, digitizes it, and notifies the communication control unit 2B. The communication control section 2B analyzes the transmission parameter of the initial identification signal, recognizes information on the number of sheets to be transmitted in the parameter, and notifies the external display section 4 of the number of sheets.

The external display section 4 displays the total number of transmitted sheets on the LCD screen. Further, in the receiver B, the number of pages recorded by the number counting unit 3 is counted by the communication control unit 2B receiving the multi-page signal and the message end signal from the start of reception of the communication.

The counted number of sheets is displayed from the sheet count section 3 to the external display section 4.
will be notified and displayed in the same way as the total number of sheets sent.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the display on the external display section 4, which shows that the fourth sheet is currently being received in a communication with a total of nine sheets to be transmitted, and there are five sheets remaining to be transmitted.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention allows the operator who wants to send data to be able to estimate the time when the device will finish receiving and become ready to send (standby state) by checking the total number of sheets to be sent and the number of sheets received so far. This has the effect of allowing the equipment to be used more efficiently.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of display on an external display section. A...Transmitter, B...Receiver, 1...Transmitted number recognition section, 2A, 2B...Communication control section, 3...Number of sheets counting section, 4...External display section, 5A , 5B... Line control section, 6... Operation section, 7... Image memory section, 8... Original m reading section, 9... Telephone line.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a facsimile machine equipped with a communication control unit having means for sending an initial identification signal from a sending device to a receiving device prior to sending and receiving facsimile data, The communication controller includes a first means for including the number information recognized by the transmission number recognition unit in the initial identification signal, and a first means for including the number information recognized by the transmission number recognition unit in the initial identification signal. It has a second means for extracting number information, and includes a number counting unit that totals the number of incoming originals, and a total number of originals related to the number information extracted by the second means, and the number of originals accumulated by the number counting unit. A facsimile device comprising: an external display section including a display area for displaying the number of sheets.