JPH04139953A - Facsimile equipment with memory function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To observe recording information from the 1st page without page order arrangement at a receiver side by executing the print recording processing from a final page at the receiver side when a sender side selects the inversion transmission mode. CONSTITUTION:The facsimile equipment is provided with a transmission setting function in addition to set a transmission order of a transmission page. In the case of setting the mode of transmission from a first page to be the normal transmission mode and setting the mode of transmission from a final page to be the inversion transmission mode, then the setting processing of the normal transmission or the inversion transmission is implemented in the case of the transfer to the setting processing. In this case, when the inversion transmission mode is selected, the picture information of the final page stored in an address is first read and sent, the final page is printed out at first at the receiver side. Thus, the head page is finally printed out, resulting that no page order arrangement is required in this transmission mode.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a facsimile machine equipped with a memory function that allows a sender to select the order in which to send pages to be sent.

1. Prior Art When sending and receiving documents using a facsimile machine, the sending side normally sends the documents sequentially from page 1, that is, the first page, and the receiving side prints and records the pages in the order in which they are received. I have to.

Therefore, when using a normal paper ejection mechanism as the recording paper ejection mechanism on the receiving facsimile machine, the paper ejection l
- The printed pages placed on the rail will be stacked in the order of the received pages, so the first page will be located at the bottom.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, in the conventional facsimile machine, when receiving sequentially transmitted image information, each page is printed and recorded in the order in which it is received. Therefore, when printing is completed, the last page becomes the first page, and the first page printed becomes the last page, so the user must manually rearrange the received pages sequentially from the I page.

However, when there are a large number of received pages, the manual process of arranging the received pages is extremely troublesome.

Therefore, this invention solves this problem, and by enabling the sending side to select the order in which the sending pages are sent, recorded information can be transmitted from the first page without page alignment on the receiving side. This paper proposes a facsimile machine with a memory function that allows the user to view the information.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention sequentially inputs the image information to be transmitted page by page into the memory means, and after the last page of the image information to be transmitted is input into the memory. At the same time, by selecting whether to send normal transmission from the first page or reverse transmission from the last page, transmission address information such as start address and end address corresponding to this selection is set. The present invention is characterized in that normal transmission processing or reverse transmission processing of image information is executed based on the set address information.

[Operation] The documents are read in the order in which they are placed on the document table, and the documents are stored in the RAM 4 which functions as a memory means.

After the last page is stored in the memory, the process is automatically or manually switched to transmission processing.

When switching to transmission processing, either normal transmission, which is transmitted from the first page, or reverse transmission, which is transmitted from the last page, is selected, and transmission address information (start address, end address, and constant) corresponding to the transmission order is selected.
is set.

If normal transmission is selected, the first page (1st page)
If reverse transmission is selected, the data is transmitted page by page from the last page to the first page.

Therefore, when reverse transmission is selected, the printing and recording process is executed from the last page on the receiving side, so that the sheets are stacked on the paper ejection tray in order from the last page. Therefore,
The receiving user does not need to align the pages.

When normal transmission is selected, page alignment is required as before.

[Embodiment] Next, an example of a facsimile device with a memory function according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 and subsequent figures.

FIG. 1 shows an example of a processing flow 20 for aligning received pages according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows a schematic configuration diagram of a facsimile machine 10 for realizing this process.

For convenience of explanation, 1, referring to FIG. 2, numeral 1 in the figure is a modem. The data received from the telephone line 2 is demodulated by the modem 1, and the demodulated received data (image information) is stored in the RAM 6 which functions as a memory means.
The signal is directly supplied to the signal processing unit 3 and subjected to data decompression processing, etc., and then supplied to the printing unit 4 where image information printing and recording processing is executed.

The image information for each page read by the reading unit 5 is temporarily stored in R.
, A M 6, or directly supplied to the transmitter 13 for data transmission. 7
is a ROM, which stores a control program for controlling the entire facsimile machine, a control program for realizing the transmission page order selection process according to the present invention, etc. The found control block is subjected to transmission/reception processing, print recording processing, etc. in accordance with the instructions of the CPU 8, which functions as a system control section.

11 indicates a data bus, 12 indicates an address bus, and a plurality of types of data are sent on the data bus 1. Therefore, among the various data from the CPU 8 supplied to the transmitter 13, the address decoder 9 Based on the designation, only data corresponding to necessary image information is selected, and the selected image data is supplied to the modem 1 and transmitted to the telephone line 2 side.

Now, the facsimile device 10 according to the present invention is added with a transmission setting function for setting the transmission order of transmission pages. When this transmission setting function is selected, the read image information is always stored in the RAM 6 in units of pages.

In that case, as shown in FIG. 3, the storage area in the RAM 6 is sequentially stored at each address n, n+1, . . . from the first page to the last page. ... n+i (11, l is an arbitrary integer), and the read image information is sequentially stored in the memory in units of one page in the area of the designated address. Here, n indicates the start address C, and n+i indicates the end address B.

Also, are the originals placed on the manuscript table in order from the first page? j, Vt are placed so that they can be taken off.

In the processing flow 20 for setting the transmission order shown in FIG. 1, when this control program starts, it is first checked to see what kind of operation mode the facsimile machine 10 on the sending side is in (step 21). ). If it is in the reception mode, the reception operation is performed as usual (step 22), and if it is in the standby state, the check mode of step 21 is repeated.

On the other hand, when the facsimile device 10 is in the transmission mode and starts reading image information, the first address of the addresses A in the RAM 4 is first set to a predetermined value (n).

This start address n is O or any value. After setting the start address n, the data of the image information to be transmitted is read in units of one page, and the read image information is stored in the memory in the storage area specified by the start address n (steps 23 and 24). ).

After one page's worth of image information is stored in the memory, the address A is incremented by 1 (step 25), and then it is determined whether the document has been read (step 26).
If the final page has not been reached, the process returns to step 24, where the document reading process is executed page by page, and the documents are sequentially memorized at the designated address A.

When the reading of the last page is completed, the process moves to the process of setting the transmission order for document transmission (step 30).The transition to this setting process may be automatic or manual.Send from the first page. When normal transmission is defined as normal transmission, and reversed transmission is defined as transmission from the last page, upon transition to setting processing, setting processing is performed to determine whether this normal transmission is reversed transmission.

When the normal transmission processing is set, the first address n is set as the start address C (step 31), and then the last page n10i is set as the end address B.
(step 32). Further, a constant setting process is performed, and in the case of normal transmission, +1 is set (step 33).

This constant is the order in which the address counter is incremented or decremented.

Next, after setting the transmission address information such as the start address C and end address B of the address counter in this manner, the device transitions to transmission processing.

In this transmission process, a start address, which is a transmission address, is first specified, and the image information stored in memory in the storage area of the start address C is first read, and this is sent to the transmission section 13 (step 34).

In this example, the start address C is the first address n, so the image information of the first page stored at the first address n is transmitted, and this is printed and recorded on the receiving side.

Next, it is determined whether the start address C and the end address B match, and if they do not match (step 35),
After the value of start address C is incremented by a constant, that is, by 1, (
Step 36), the process returns to step 34, and the image information (second page) stored in the memory at the updated start address C is read. And this is the transmitter 13,
The data is transmitted to the other party via the modem 1, and the second page is subjected to reception print recording processing.

Such transmission processing is executed sequentially until C=B,
The updated start address C is the last page (nj)
When the process of transmitting the image information of the final page is completed, the process returns to CB and returns to the initial operation mode determination process (step 35.21).

When the normal transmission mode is selected in this manner, since the data is transmitted sequentially starting from the first page as in the normal case, the receiving side cannot view the data from the first page unless the pages are aligned.

On the other hand, when reverse transmission mode is selected,
In step 30, a transition is made to the reverse transmission side, and in this case, address A (the final address in step 25) indicating the final page (n+j) is set as the start address C (step 41).

Thereafter, the first page n is set as the end address B (step 42). Further, a constant setting process is performed, and in the case of inverted transmission, 1 is set (step 43).

This constant is the order in which the address counter should be decremented.

Next, when such transmission address setting processing is completed, the device transitions to transmission processing.

In this transmission process, address A, which is the start address C, is specified first, so the image information of the last page n+i stored at address A is read first, and this is sent. The last page is printed and recorded.

Next, it is determined whether the start address C and the end address B match, and if they do not match (step 35),
After a decrement process is performed such that the value of the start address C is decremented by a constant, that is, by 1 (step 36), the process returns to step 34 again and the start address C updated in the direction of subtraction is
The image information (page i-1) stored in the memory is read. Then, since this is transmitted, the image information of the second page from the back is printed and recorded.

Such transmission processing is executed sequentially until C=8, that is, the first page, and the updated start address C becomes the first page n. When the transmission processing of the image information of the first page n is completed, C=B. The process returns to the first operation mode determination process (step 35.21).

Therefore, in this reverse transmission mode, since transmission starts from the last page, the printing and recording process is executed from the last page on the receiving side. Therefore, as a result of the first page being printed and recorded last, page alignment becomes unnecessary in this transmission mode.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, in the present invention, in the reverse transmission mode, the last page stored in the memory means is sequentially read and transmitted.

According to this, since the image information is transmitted sequentially starting from the last page, the received pages can be automatically aligned by printing and recording the image information in the order of reception, completely eliminating the troublesome work of page alignment. It has the characteristics of being able to

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an example of a processing flow for achieving the reverse transmission function according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a facsimile machine, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a state of data storage in memory. It is. 1... Modem 2... Telephone line 3... Signal processing unit 4... Printing unit 5 - Reading unit memory means (RAM) OM PU Address decoder ■ Data bus address bus transmitting unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) The image information to be transmitted is sequentially loaded into the memory means page by page, and after the last page of the image information to be transmitted is loaded into the memory, the process moves to print recording processing, and either normal transmission is performed by transmitting from the first page, or By selecting reverse transmission to send from the last page, transmission address information such as start address and end address corresponding to this selection is set, and image information is normally transmitted or reversed based on the set address information. A facsimile device with a memory function, characterized in that the facsimile device is configured to perform processing.