JPH0644792B2 - Facsimile response device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a facsimile response device which converts screen information composed of a character code string into an image signal and outputs the image signal to a facsimile terminal.

[Conventional technology]

For example, "Facsimile-New Communication Media" (Corporation)
In P240 to 245 by Telecommunication Technology News Co., Ltd., published April 1, 1984, supervised by Osamu Murakami, when outputting a character code as a character pattern to a facsimile machine, a mosaic pattern (in a straight line necessary for creating a form, etc.) The method of combining ruled line pieces) is described. However, as the size of the mosaic pattern, only those with the same size as kanji and non-kanji are considered.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

In the above conventional technology, when a ruled line segment (mosaic pattern) is used to output straight lines (vertical / horizontal lines) necessary for a form, the size of the ruled line segment is the same as that of Kanji / non-Kanji (aspect ratio). Occupies a space for one character on the screen because only about 1: 1) is considered. Therefore, the space that can express characters other than ruled lines (kanji / non-kanji) is reduced by the space occupied by ruled line segments.

An object of the present invention is to provide a facsimile response device capable of reducing the space occupied by ruled line segments on the screen and increasing the space for expressing characters (kanji / non-kanji) other than ruled lines. is there.

[Means for solving problems]

The above purpose can be achieved by using the pattern of the dedicated ruled line segment whose vertical direction is 1/2 compared to the pattern size of the characters (kanji / non-kanji) other than the ruled line segment as the size of the ruled line segment. To be

[Action]

By using the dedicated ruled line pieces, 1 / per line that uses the ruled line pieces compared to the case of using the conventional ruled line pieces
The space for 2 characters, that is, the space for 1/2 line can be used as the expression space for characters other than ruled line segments, and the number of expressible characters per screen increases.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. 1 showing a facsimile response system, FIG. 2 showing an example of screen information composed of character code strings, FIG. 3 showing an example of a character dot pattern, and FIG. This will be described with reference to FIG.

The screen information composed of a character code string is sent from the host computer 1 via the communication line 2 to the facsimile response device 3
Sent to. The facsimile signal generated by the facsimile response device 3 is sent to the facsimile terminal 5 via the telephone line 4.

The kanji / non-kanji dot pattern storage unit 33 stores, for example, FIG.
Dot pattern information of characters (for example, graphic characters defined by JIS-C-6226) other than ruled line segments having the same size as shown in (1) to (4) is stored. In the standard ruled line element dot pattern storage unit 34, for example, a ruled line element having the same size as that shown in FIGS. 3 (1) to (4) as shown in FIG.
Stores dot pattern information of ruled line segments defined by C-6226. In the dedicated ruled line element dot pattern storage unit 35, for example, as shown in FIG. 3 (6), the vertical direction is shown in FIG.
The dot pattern information of ruled line segments having a length half that of the character sizes (1) to (5) is stored.

As the storage method in the dot pattern storage units 33 to 35, (i)
There is a method of storing (ii) RAM as RM and storing and using dot pattern information before use.

The following 2 can be used to specify the dedicated ruled line segment on the screen information.
A plan is possible.

1. Dedicated ruled line instruction command 63 + Standard ruled line segment code 61
(For example, JIS-C-6226) 2. Providing a new dedicated ruled line segment code In this embodiment, option 1 is shown.

The screen information 6 received by the control unit 31 is sent to the code pattern conversion unit 32 and the character code is converted into a character dot pattern. In the screen information 6, for the ruled line segment code 61 not specified, the corresponding dot pattern is searched from the standard ruled line segment dot pattern storage unit 34, and if the character code 62 is other than the ruled line segment, kanji / non-character The Kanji dot pattern storage unit 33 is searched for the corresponding dot pattern, and in the case of "dedicated ruled line instruction command 63 + standard ruled line segment code 61", the corresponding ruled line segment dot pattern storage unit 35 is searched for the corresponding code. Pattern conversion is performed.

Consider the case of creating the screen shown in FIG. When only standard ruled line pieces are created, the vertical length is 4l ₁ as shown in FIG. 4 (1). On the other hand, when created using dedicated ruled line segments, the vertical length is 3l ₁ as shown in Fig. 4 (2), and the space for l ₁ is more space for character expression in the vertical direction. Will increase. The converted pattern information is sent to the facsimile signal conversion unit 36, converted into a facsimile signal and sent to the telephone line 4.

In this way, a ruled line segment whose vertical direction is 1/2 the size of the conventional character dot pattern size is newly defined, and the ruled line segment dot pattern information is stored in the dedicated ruled line segment dot pattern storage unit 35. It is possible to increase the number of characters that can be expressed per screen by setting it in advance. Further, when outputting a screen whose size is free size in the vertical direction to the facsimile terminal, the same information amount can be sent in a shorter size, which leads to a reduction in communication time.

〔The invention's effect〕

According to the present invention, since the space occupied by ruled line segments can be compressed, information can be efficiently expressed on the output screen, and the communication time to the facsimile terminal can be shortened.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a facsimile response system of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of screen information used in the embodiment of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is an example of a character dot pattern. FIG. 4 and FIG. 4 are views showing examples of screen creation. 1 ... Host computer 2 ... Communication line 3 ... Facsimile response device 31 ... Control unit 32 ... Code pattern conversion unit 33 ... Kanji / non-Kanji dot pattern storage unit 34 ... Standard ruled line element dot pattern storage unit 35 …… Dedicated ruled line element dot pattern storage 36 …… Facsimile signal conversion unit 4 …… Telephone line 5 …… Facsimile terminal 6 …… Screen information 61 …… Rule line element code 62 …… Characters other than ruled line element Code 63 ... Dedicated ruled line instruction command

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile response device for converting screen information composed of a character code string into an image signal and outputting the image signal to a facsimile terminal, wherein the vertical and horizontal sizes of a unit element for ruled line creation are kanji and non-kanji characters. It has a storage device that assigns character codes to standard segments equal to the character size and dedicated segments whose vertical size is standard segment 1/2, and stores the dot pattern data of the standard segment and dedicated segment. , It has a function to identify whether it is a standard segment or a dedicated segment from the character code in the screen information. When it is a standard segment, it is converted to the dot pattern data of the standard segment, and when it is a dedicated segment, the dedicated segment is a dedicated segment. A facsimile response device having a function of converting the dot pattern data into the image data, and converting the converted pattern data into an image signal and transmitting the image signal to a facsimile terminal.