JPH04280563A - facsimile machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain efficient transmission processing by adding a page number by each original to prevent misunderstanding of a recipient and relieving the load on the operation. CONSTITUTION:The operator sets originals for each destination to a scanner 1 while stacking them. Then a page number of an original of a destination and a name of destination are described by operation of an operation display section 7. The facsimile equipment stores inputted information to a system memory 4. The operator enters a telephone number of a destination facsimile equipment after the input of information to start the transmission. When a destination replies, a processing number (i) is set after processing transmission control procedure to read a page number Pt of the number (i) stored in the memory 4. Then the scanner 1 reads the original picture to read the number (i) and the destination from the memory 4 and they are added to a head of an original picture and the result is sent. Thus, the efficiency of the transmission processing is improved while the recipient does not misunderstood a page number to be received.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine.

0002

[Prior Art] For example, there are three manuscripts to be sent to Mr. A in the first sales department of a company, and two manuscripts to be sent to Mr. B in the second sales department. 1st sales department and 2nd
It is assumed that the sales department and the sales department share one facsimile machine.

[0003] In such a case, making two separate calls to Mr. A and Mr. B makes the calling operation troublesome and the communication process is inefficient. Therefore, for example, it is conceivable to attach a cover letter with the addresses of Mr. A and Mr. B to each manuscript, and send the two manuscripts at once.

[0004] By the way, for example, "P.1/3", "P.2/3", "P.3/3" are written at the top of each page of the transmitted manuscript.
A facsimile machine is well known that automatically adds the total number of pages and page numbers of a transmitted document and transmits an image.

[0005] Assume that a total of five manuscripts are sent to Mr. A and Mr. B at once using such a facsimile machine as described above. Then, in the three manuscripts addressed to Mr. A,
Page information "P.1/5" to "P.3/5" is added, and the two manuscripts addressed to Mr. B have "P.4/5" and "
P. Page information "4/5" will be added. For this reason, the recipients, Mr. A and Mr. B, may misunderstand that the received document is missing because there are only 3 or 2 sheets of originals even though the total number of originals is displayed as 5.

On the other hand, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-284971
As seen in the above publication, it has been proposed to automatically generate and transmit a document image corresponding to the above-mentioned cover letter. However, in the case of this proposal, it was not possible to divide the manuscript to be sent at one time into two parts and attach a cover sheet to each part as described above.

[0007] Furthermore, if the original images to be sent to each destination are once stored in the image system memory, if there are original images specified for the same destination when making a call, they will be sent all together in one communication. There is a facsimile machine that has a sending function. However, with such facsimile machines, it is necessary to input the destination each time when storing original images for each destination.

[0008]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, conventionally, when a document is sent to multiple recipients using a single facsimile machine, the recipient may misunderstand the number of pages to be received. However, there have been problems in that the operation becomes troublesome or the efficiency of the transmission process decreases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus that can solve the above problems, prevent misunderstandings on the part of recipients, reduce operational effort, and efficiently perform transmission processing.

0010

[Means for Solving the Problems] To solve this problem, the present invention allows an operator to set the telephone number of the destination facsimile machine to make a call, set documents for a plurality of recipients at the destination all together, and Enter the address and total number of pages for each document, and the facsimile machine calls the set phone number, reads the document images of each document sequentially, and then reads the corresponding address and total number of pages for each scanned document image. The present invention is characterized in that the following information is added and transmitted.

[0011]

[Operation] As a result, the number of pages is added to each manuscript, so that the recipient does not misunderstand the number of pages to be received. Furthermore, since the destination telephone number only needs to be set once, the sending operation becomes easier. Furthermore, since each document is sent once, the efficiency of the sending process is improved.

0012

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a facsimile machine according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a scanner 1 is used to read original images, and a plotter 2 is used to record and output received images. The encoding/decoding unit 3 data-compresses image information to be transmitted using various encoding methods, and decodes received image information to restore the original image information. The system memory 4 stores operator setting information and temporarily stores image information and various information during communication operations.

The modem 5 transmits and receives image information and various procedure signals for transmission control. The network control device 6 is
A telephone line is connected to it, and predetermined line control is performed when making and receiving calls. The operation display section 7 is used by the operator to perform various operations and also displays the operating status of the device. The system control section 8 is a microphone computer that controls the above-mentioned sections, and the system bus 9 is a signal line through which the above-mentioned sections exchange various control signals and data with each other.

With the above configuration, the transmission operation of the facsimile apparatus of this embodiment will now be explained.

For example, let us assume that there is a manuscript to be sent to each department in one company, and each department shares one facsimile machine at the destination.

In this case, as shown in FIG. 2, the operator stacks the documents for each destination and sets them on the document table of the scanner 1 (process 101). Then, by a predetermined operation on the operation display section 7, the number of pages of the original document and the addressee of the first destination are inputted in the order in which the original documents are stacked. In this case, the page number is input using, for example, a numeric keypad. The address, which is the recipient's department name or name, can be entered using character keys provided on the operation display section 7, or by registering multiple addresses in advance and selecting one from them. (processing 102,
Process 103).

The facsimile machine stores each piece of input information in the system memory 4.

After that, the operator inputs the same information for each document for each destination (process 104, process 104).
(Y to process 102).

[0020] Now, assuming that n number of pages and addresses have been input, the system memory 4 has the following information as shown in FIG.
The number of pages and addressee input corresponding to the processing numbers 1 to n are stored, respectively.

[0021] After the above input, the operator (processing 104
N), the telephone number of the destination facsimile device is input (process 105), and the sending operation is started (process 106).

[0022] As a result, the facsimile machine makes a call to the other party's facsimile machine (process 107). and,
When the other party responds, after a predetermined transmission control procedure, a variable i for counting the processing number is set to i=1 (process 108).
, the number of pages Pt of process number i stored in the system memory 4 is read out (process 109). Also, page number P
Let s=1 (process 110).

Next, one page of the original image is read by the scanner 1 (process 111). Then, the addressee with the processing number i stored in the system memory 4 is read out, and the addressee information is added to the beginning of the read document image, and the information on the page number Ps and page number Pt is added in a fixed format. (Process 112). Thereafter, the original image is transmitted (process 113).

Next, the page number Ps is compared with the page number Pt (processing 114), and the page number Ps is compared with the page number Pt.
If it is less than t (N in process 114), the page number Ps is incremented by 1 (process 115), and the next page of the document is processed in the same way (proceed to process 111).

As a result, as shown in FIG. 4(a), 1
The destination document images are sequentially transmitted page by page. At this time, the addressee N and page information P are added to the top of each page, and in the page information P, the recipient indicated by the addressee is
The total number of pages of the manuscript to be received and the page number of each image will be displayed.

[0026] When the original image for one destination is transmitted in this manner, the page number Ps becomes equal to the number of pages Pt. In this case (Y in process 114), the variable i is then compared with the final value n of the process number (process 116). here,
If the variable i is less than the final value n (N in process 116), the variable i is incremented by 1 (process 117), and the document for the next destination is processed in the same way (proceed to process 109).

[0027] As a result, as shown in FIG. 4(b), the original images to each destination are sequentially transmitted in the same manner. Then, when the transmission to all destinations is completed and the variable i becomes equal to the final value n of the processing number (Y in process 116), the above transmission process is ended.

As described above, in this embodiment, the operator sets a plurality of originals for each destination in the device at once, and
The addressee and page number are entered for each manuscript. and,
When transmitting an image, the facsimile device adds an addressee, a page number, and a page number corresponding to each document to each page of the document image before transmitting the image.

[0029] In this way, since the number of pages and page numbers are assigned to each document corresponding to each destination, the recipient does not misunderstand the number of pages to be received. Further, since the setting operation of the destination telephone number only needs to be performed once, the transmission operation becomes easier. Furthermore, since original images for multiple destinations are sent at once, during communication, the transmission control procedure before and after sending the image information only needs to be executed once, so communication can be completed in a short time. . This saves communication costs and improves the efficiency of transmission processing.

[0030] In the above embodiment, the addressee and page information are added to the beginning of the document image of each page, but for example, the addressee and the total number of pages may be sent as a cover sheet on a separate page. It goes without saying that the method of transmitting such information can be set arbitrarily.

[0031]

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, when an operator sets all manuscripts to be sent to a plurality of recipients at once and inputs the address and total number of pages for each manuscript, When sending an image, the facsimile machine adds the addressee and total number of pages for each document to each document image, so the recipient misunderstands the number of pages that should be received. On the other hand, since the setting operation of the calling party only needs to be performed once, the sending operation becomes easier, and since each document is sent once, the efficiency of the sending process is improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of information stored by input operations.

FIG. 3 is an operational flowchart of transmission processing.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a transmitted image.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Scanner 2 Plotter 3 Encoding/decoding section 4 System memory 5 Modem 6 Network control device 7 Operation display section 8 System control section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile device that sequentially reads and transmits original images of a transmission document set on a document table, comprising dialing means for setting a telephone number of a facsimile device of a destination, and a dialing means for setting a telephone number of a facsimile device of a destination; a manuscript setting means for setting each manuscript for the recipient on the manuscript table; an input means for inputting an address indicating the recipient and the number of pages for each manuscript; and a dialing means for making a call to the set telephone number. a transmitting means; a reading means for sequentially reading the manuscript images of each of the manuscripts page by page;
A facsimile machine comprising an image adding means for adding the corresponding address and page number to a scanned original image, and a transmitting means for transmitting the original image to which the address and page number have been added. Device.