JPH04154366A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the easily understandable output by providing a means for executing the upper/lower and left/right rearrangements of image data, and displaying facsimile data phototelegraphed in a state turned upside down in the forward direction at the time of outputting it to a display, etc. CONSTITUTION:When a document is inserted into a reader 11 from the reverse direction at the time of transmission, image data in a state rotated by 180 degrees is stored in an image data storage part 14. When a rearrangement operation is selected by an operation selecting part 20, a rearrangement processing is executed by a main control part 10. Subsequently, the data of the image data storage part 14 is encoded successively by an encoding part 12-a and phototelegraphed to the other facsimile. On the other hand, at the time of reception, the transferred code data is decoded by a code decoding part 12-b and stored in the image data storage part 14, and it is read out and printed by an output part 13, or outputted to a display. In this case, when the rearrangement is selected by the operation selecting part 20, the rearrangement of the image data is executed, and the display can be executed to the display by the output part 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to sorting data in a facsimile machine.

[Prior Art] In Fig. 0, the configuration of a facsimile machine as shown in Fig. 3 is conventionally known.

(8) is the main body of the facsimile machine, (9) is the external device (
10) is a main control unit that controls each functional unit; (11) is a reading unit that reads a document; and (12) is a compression/decompression unit that converts image data into facsimile code or converts facsimile code into image data.

(13) is the recording section, (14) is the memory, (14-a
) is the buffer (16) is the external interface part, (
17) is an external interface control unit, and (18) is an external command decoding unit.

(19) is a pattern generation section, (20) is an operation panel,
(22) is a communication control unit, (23) is a modem, (2
4) is a network control unit.

(100) is a bus for transferring data, (l
ot) is a bus for transferring control signals. An example of such a facsimile device is Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 61292.
There was a device such as that shown in Publication No. 467.

Next, the operation will be explained. Commands manually entered from the external device (9) are decoded by the external interface control section (17), and the main control section (10) controls each functional section to perform the following operations.

At the time of transmission, the image data read by the reading section (11) is transmitted to the destination facsimile machine for output. An explanation of the reading operation is shown in FIG. 4(a), and a display result at this time is shown in FIG. 4(b). Fourth
In figure (a), (11) is the reading section, (7-a)
is the original to be read. Figure 4 (
When a document is inserted into the reading device (11) in the direction shown in a), the document is read from right to left from the bottom line to the top line, and facsimile encoding is performed in this order. Send to the other party's fax machine. At this time, the display result on the other party's facsimile becomes as shown in FIG. 4(b). In FIG. 4(b), (30) is data displayed on the monitor display.

On the other hand, during reception, the facsimile code data transferred from the other party's facsimile is converted into image data by the compression/expansion section (12) and printed out by the recording section (13).

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] Since the conventional facsimile machine is configured as described above, the operator of the transmitting side facsimile machine can send a document to (7-a) in FIG. 4(a). When inserted in the direction shown inside, from the right side of the bottom line of the document, that is,
The problem was that it was encoded starting from the end and then sent electronically, and since the facsimile code was displayed on the receiving side, it was very difficult to read when two people were sent by e-mail.

This invention was made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and when outputting to a display etc., it is possible to flip the image vertically and horizontally as necessary! The objective is to obtain a facsimile machine that can be used.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A facsimile apparatus according to the present invention provides a method for converting image data into facsimile code prior to converting image data into facsimile code.

Alternatively, a means for exchanging buffer data is provided to decode the facsimile code to image data and obtain image data for output.

[Operation] In the present invention, the output order of the data in the image data storage means is determined for each image data line by specifying forward, reverse, etc.

[Example] Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1(a), (1) is a rearranging unit that mutually rearranges two lines of image data;
12-a) is a facsimile encoding section, (12-b) is a facsimile decoding section, (13) is an output section, (14)
) is an image data storage unit capable of storing at least one page of image data, (14-a) is a transmitting/receiving buffer, and the other parts are the same as those with the same number in the conventional example.

Next, the operation will be explained. At the time of transmission, Fig. 4 (a
When a document is inserted into the reading device (11) from the direction shown in (7-a) as shown in parentheses in ), the image data storage section (14) contains a document 18 whose top, bottom, left, and right are reversed from the document.
Image data rotated by 0 degrees is stored. When this is displayed on a display or the like by the output section (13), it is displayed rotated by 180 degrees as shown in parentheses in FIG. 4(b). At this time, when a rearrangement operation is selected by the operation selection section (20), the rearrangement process is performed under the control of the main control section (10). FIG. 2 shows an explanation of the rearrangement process. In FIG. 2, first, the image data storage unit (14) transfers the data to the line bar sofa (1-b). Next, as shown by the dotted line in FIG. -n), and the data in the line image buffer (1-b) is similarly read in the reverse order and transferred to the top line (14-1) of the image data storage section (14). The above process is repeated for each line starting from the line immediately below the top row (14-2) and the line immediately above the bottom row (14-(n-1)).

If the total number of lines in one page is an even number, the entire process described above is performed. If the total number of lines is an odd number, the same process is performed, but the data of the line (14-((n+1)/2)) corresponding to the center of the document to be rearranged is stored from the image data storage unit (14). -The contents of the line buffer (1-a) are read out in the reverse order, and the image data storage section (1-a) is transferred to the line buffer (1-a).
The same line (14-((n+
Transfer again to 1)/2)). Through the above processing, the image data is rearranged vertically and horizontally, and image data rotated by 180 degrees is obtained. In addition, the main control section (
Under the control of 10), the data in the image data storage section (14) is sequentially encoded by the facsimile encoding section (12-a) and transmitted to the other party's facsimile.

On the other hand, when receiving, the facsimile code decoding unit (
12-b), the image data is decoded into image data and stored in the image data storage unit (14), and this data is read out and outputted to a printout or a display or the like by the output unit (13). At this time, if rearrangement is selected by the operation selection section (20), the image data is rearranged in the same manner as at the time of transmission. Image data rearranged in the manner described above is obtained and can be displayed on a display or the like by the output section (13).

113i7 (b) This is an explanatory diagram of a facsimile data storage device provided with a function of replacing image data. In FIG. 1(b), (31) is a facsimile code data storage section.

The operation of the facsimile data storage device configured as shown in FIG. 1(b) will be explained. At the time of transmission, first, when transmitting the scanned original, the main control unit (10
), the image of the document read from the reading section (II) is stored in the image data storage section (14).

At this time, the operator selects the output section (1) by operating the operation selection section.
3), the image data is displayed on a display or the like to check the contents, and if necessary, the image data is rearranged, and the rearrangement unit (1) rearranges the image data. Next, the facsimile encoder (12-b)
The image data is facsimile encoded and sent to the other party's facsimile. Further, regarding accumulated facsimile data, facsimile encoded data is retrieved from the external storage device and transmitted electronically under the control of the main control section (10).

On the other hand, at the time of reception, the facsimile code data transferred from the other party's facsimile is stored in an external storage device if storage is selected by the operation selection section (20), and facsimile code data is decoded if print or display is selected. The decoding unit (12-b) decodes the data into image data and stores it in the image data storage unit (14), reads out this data, and outputs it to a printout or display etc. by the output unit (13). At this time, the operation selection section (2
If sorting is selected by 0), 7M will be sent as in the case of sending.
The image data is rearranged by the L verifier (1). Further, the image data stored in the image data storage section (14) is displayed on a display or the like by the output section (13).

In the above embodiment, the image data is rotated by 180 degrees, but if a rotation function of 90 degrees and 270 degrees is provided, it becomes possible to correct a document read from the horizontal direction.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, since a means for rearranging image data vertically and horizontally is provided, facsimile data transmitted upside down can be displayed in the forward direction when outputting on a display or the like. 1. Easy-to-understand output can be obtained.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1(a) and FIG. 1(b) are diagrams showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of rearrangement processing of the present invention. Figure 3 is a configuration diagram of a conventional facsimile machine, and Figure 4 (a
), FIG. 4(b) is an explanatory diagram of reading and displaying a document. In the figure, (1) is a rearrangement section, (11) is a reading section, (12a) is a facsimile encoding section, (L2
b) is a facsimile decoding section, (13) is an output section,
(14) is an image data storage section, and (31) is a facsimile code data storage section. In the figure. Same symbols are the same. or a significant portion.

Claims (1)

[Claims] means for decoding facsimile codes into image data or converting image data into facsimile codes; means for storing image data or accumulating facsimile data; means for rearranging image data vertically and horizontally; A facsimile machine having means for outputting data.