JPH05103132A - Method for information display and facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To clearly display character string information and changing quantity information on the same display area of an indicator. CONSTITUTION:As for character string information, a binary display is performed on a fixed display area of an indicator. As for quantity information, an inverse display is performed to the binary state by the correspondent quantity in the display area. Therefore, an operator can easily read display information since character information and quantity information are displayed at the same time.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of displaying information when displaying character string information and quantity information and a facsimile apparatus to which the method is applied.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a facsimile apparatus equipped with a display device displays a telephone number or name of a partner station received from the partner station during communication.

On the other hand, as a transmission method of a facsimile apparatus, memory transmission is well known in which all pages of a document image to be transmitted are once read, accumulated in an image memory, and then transmitted.

When a facsimile machine executes memory transmission, it is common practice to display the total number of pages of a transmission image and the page currently being transmitted.

By the way, when the display provided in the facsimile apparatus is small-sized, it may not be possible to simultaneously display the two pieces of information such as the information of the communication partner station and the page information as described above.

[0006]

Conventionally, in that case, 2
The two pieces of information are displayed alternately at a constant cycle.
However, in this case, the operator must be able to read each piece of information displayed by continuously viewing the display for a certain period of time, which causes a problem that the displayed information is difficult to read.

It is an object of the present invention to solve the above problems and provide a method of displaying various kinds of information that allows the displayed information to be easily read.

[0008]

To this end, the present invention is designed to display the character string information such as the communication destination in a binary display in a certain display area of the display, while displaying the entire character string such as the page being transmitted. The quantity information indicating the ratio of the corresponding portion is displayed by reversing the binary state of each pixel for the area corresponding to the ratio of the quantity in the display area.

[0009]

Since the character information and the quantity information are displayed at the same time, the operator can easily read the displayed information.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a scanner 1 reads an original image, and a plotter 2 records and outputs a received image. The encoding / decoding unit 3 compresses the image information to be transmitted by various encoding methods, while decoding the received image information to restore the original image information. The image memory 4 temporarily stores image information.

The modem 5 sends and receives image information and various procedure signals for transmission control. The network controller 6
A telephone line is connected, and predetermined line control is performed when making or receiving a call. The display unit 7 displays the operating state of the device and information indicating the communication partner. The operation unit 8
The operator performs various operations. The system control unit 9 is a microphone computer that controls the above-mentioned units, and the system bus 10 is a signal line through which the above-mentioned units exchange various control signals and data with each other.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the display unit 7. In the figure, the liquid crystal display 71 is a small display for displaying a fixed number of character strings for one line. The graphic memory 72 stores the display information in pixel units. The character generator 73 is for generating character font information of various characters. The text memory 74 stores the character string information to be displayed.
The controller 75 controls each of the above parts, and the controller 75 and the text memory 74 input / output various data to / from the system bus 10.

The memory transmission process of the facsimile apparatus of the present embodiment having the above configuration will be described.

In this case, the operator sets the transmission original on the facsimile, sets the transmission destination by a predetermined operation, and activates the memory transmission operation.

When the facsimile apparatus is activated, as shown in FIG. 3, the image of the set transmission original is read and temporarily stored in the image memory 4 (process 101). Then
When a call is sent to the transmission destination and the other party responds, the known transmission control procedure of the G3 facsimile is executed (process 102).

In this transmission control procedure, the facsimile apparatus receives the TSI signal from the called side. Also,
If the called party has certain optional features,
Further, the RTI information is received by the NSF signal. TS
The I signal is a signal in which the telephone number information of the called side is set. The RTI information is character information such as a station name registered in advance in the called-side facsimile machine.

This facsimile device displays the character information on the liquid crystal display 71 when receiving the RTI information, and displays the telephone number information of the TSI signal when not receiving the RTI information.

In this case, in the display unit 7, each code information of display characters is stored in the text memory 74, and the character generator 73 outputs the character font information corresponding to each code information. Then, the character font information is sequentially stored in the graphic memory 72, and the content of the memory is displayed on the liquid crystal display 71, thereby displaying characters. FIG. 4A shows an example of this display, in which the left end of the liquid crystal display 71 indicates that transmission is in progress, and the telephone number of the other party is displayed on the right side thereof (process 103). ..

After this, image transmission is started (process 10).
4). Next, the total number N of pages of the document image is determined (process 105), and the page i being transmitted is determined (process 106). Then, the ratio P of the page i being transmitted to the number N of pages of the original image is calculated (process 107), and the portion corresponding to the ratio P in the display area of the liquid crystal display 71 is displayed in black and white. In this case, when the display data is output from the graphic memory 72 to the liquid crystal display 71,
By inverting the bit data in a certain area, the display is reversed. FIG. 4B shows an example of this display. Of the display areas displaying the other party's telephone number, the left side 1
The / 4 area is highlighted in black and white. This is a display state when, for example, the first page of the original image of four pages is being transmitted (process 108).

Thereafter, the transmission status is checked (process 10).
9) If the transmission is continued (N in process 109), the same display is performed (process 106). As a result, the inverted display area of the liquid crystal display 71 is gradually enlarged each time one page of the original image is transmitted. When all pages have been transmitted (Y in process 109), the above transmission operation is terminated.

As described above, in this embodiment, character information such as a telephone number is displayed in black and white in a certain display area of the liquid crystal display 71, while the page being transmitted is the page of the total number of pages. The ratio is calculated, and the display area corresponding to the ratio is displayed in black and white inversion.

As a result, since the character information and the quantity information are displayed at the same time, the operator can easily read the displayed information.

In the above embodiment, the liquid crystal display 71
In this case, the horizontal display is reversed in pixel units. For example, in the case of a display with a character width of 20 digits and a 1/3 area is reversed, the character area for the left 7 digits is reversed. As described above, the characters may be highlighted in units of character size. In this case, since one character is not partially inverted, the displayed character is easy to see.

Although the ratio of the number of pages transmitted to all pages of the original image is displayed, the number of lines transmitted to all the lines of all pages of the original image is displayed. It is also possible to display the percentage of swell.

Further, the case where the information of the communication partner and the transmission amount of the original image are displayed on the facsimile device has been described as an example. However, the present invention, regardless of the device or the information content, the character string information and the amount information. As a matter of course, it can be widely applied when displaying and.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention, the character string information is binary-displayed in a certain display area of the display, while the quantity information is expressed in the proportion of the quantity in the display area. Since the binary state is highlighted in the corresponding area and the character information and the quantity information are displayed at the same time, the operator can easily read the displayed information.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a block configuration diagram of a display unit.

FIG. 3 is an operation flowchart of a memory transmission process.

FIG. 4 is a display information diagram showing a display example of a liquid crystal display.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Scanner 2 Plotter 3 Encoding / Decoding Unit 4 Image Memory 5 Modem 6 Network Control Device 7 Display Unit 8 Operation Unit 9 System Control Unit 71 Liquid Crystal Display 72 Graphic Memory 73 Character Generator 74 Text Memory 75 Controller

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A method of displaying information, wherein character string information and quantity information indicating a ratio of a part to the whole are displayed in one display area of a display device which performs binary display by each pixel,
The character string information is binary-displayed on the display device, while the quantity information is displayed by reversing the binary state of each pixel for an area corresponding to the proportion of the quantity in the display area. Information display method. 2. The method of displaying information according to claim 1, wherein the inverted display of the binary state is performed in a unit of a character width of one character of the character string information. 3. The method for displaying information according to claim 1, wherein the inverted display of the binary state is performed in units of the pixel width of each pixel. 4. The information according to claim 1, wherein the character string information is an example of a character indicating a communication partner, and the quantity information is a quantity of a transmitted image of all images to be transmitted. Facsimile device to which the display method is applied.