JPH0591222A - Equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Object] The present invention has a function of printing a calling party telephone number from a calling party telephone number signal transmitted from a calling party telephone on a recording sheet in an automatic response of a facsimile machine. It is to allow the caller to later identify the calling party. This is accomplished by providing a number signal detection circuit (3), detecting a telephone number signal input by the calling side, and printing this number on recording paper (6, 7). [Effect] In a facsimile machine, a caller who makes a call from the telephone number printed after disconnecting the line can be specified without registering an answering machine function using a recording medium or the like.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone number memo function for detecting a telephone number input by a calling side and printing the telephone number in an automatic response of a facsimile machine.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional facsimile machine without an answering machine, when a calling party makes a call and the called party does not answer the call, the calling party is informed of the absence of a voice response. It is designed to notify or send the CED signal and below.

A device related to this type of device is described, for example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 59-108447.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned prior art, it is possible to send and receive by facsimile between the calling side and the called side, but in the case of telephone, the calling side cannot confirm the absence of the called side. However, there was a problem that both parties could not contact each other at all.

The object of the present invention is to input from the called party what the called party called when the called party was absent even when the facsimile machine was not equipped with an answering machine. It can be confirmed later by looking at the telephone number printed based on.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention converts a telephone number signal sent from a calling telephone into character information and prints it on a recording paper in a line connection state to a facsimile machine. It was done.

[0007]

The telephone number detection circuit detects the signal corresponding to the numbers 0 to 9 representing the telephone number transmitted from the calling telephone in the detection mode in the line connection state, encodes this signal and stores it in the memory. After the line is disconnected, the code is read from the memory and the number is printed on the paper from this code.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.

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

In FIG. 1, a relay 2 normally connects a central office line 1 to a telephone line. When the facsimile on the called side receives an incoming call automatically by the calling on the calling side, the voice synthesis LS
From I10, a voice response is sent from the relay 2 to the calling side telephone via the office line 1, and the calling side is prompted to input the telephone number.

After the end of the voice response, the relay 2 is switched to the number signal detecting section 3 and the telephone number signal sent from the station line 1 via the relay 2 is detected by the number signal detecting section 3,
The detected telephone number signal is converted into a character code by the decoder 4 and stored in the memory 5. After the telephone number input from the calling telephone is completed and the line is disconnected, the print data control unit 6 determines the character generator (CG) ROM based on the character code stored in the memory 5.
The character font in 8 is used to print numbers on the paper in the printing unit 7.

According to the present embodiment, even if the facsimile machine is not equipped with an answering machine, the called party can see the telephone number printed on the paper, and the caller who has been absent can call the person. You can know what has come.

[0013]

According to the present invention, the called party can confirm the telephone number of the calling party of the telephone that automatically received the call, and the calling party can be identified even by the conventional facsimile machine which does not have the absence function.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Station line, 2 ... Relay, 3 ... Number signal detection circuit, 4 ... Decoder, 5 ... Memory, 6 ... Print data creation control section, 7 ... Print section, 8 ... CG. ROM, 9 ... Telephone circuit, 10 ... Voice synthesis LSI.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a facsimile apparatus, a detection circuit for detecting a signal representing a telephone number sent via a telephone line, a signal detected by the detection circuit is converted into a character code, and the character code is converted into a character code. A facsimile machine comprising a memory for storing and a function for outputting a number as a character from the character code stored in the memory to a printing unit.