JPH08331265A - Fax machine - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To enable the reception state of the facsimile apparatus 11 to be known by operating the telephone 14 from a remote location. [Structure] The sender number of the facsimile device 13 for transmitting the image signal is stored in the memory 19 of the facsimile device 11, and the image signal is recorded by the printer 21 on the recording paper 2.
It is printed on 2. By operating the input means 15 of the telephone set 14, the calling party number stored in the memory 19 is converted into a voice signal by the voice signal synthesizing and responding section 27 and converted. You can hear from a remote location that the received document exists.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a facsimile machine which does not have a transfer function for transferring a received original transmitted by a remote control signal from a calling side. It relates to a configuration that can be implemented.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A typical prior art is shown in FIG. A line such as a telephone line is connected to the communication control unit 3 in the facsimile device 2 of the prior art, demodulates the image data transmitted and received from the facsimile device which is the calling terminal device, and the decoding unit 4 decodes the image data. The printer 5 prints on recording paper and outputs it. An operation unit 6 is provided for operating the facsimile apparatus 2, and the main control unit 7 is
The communication control unit 3 and the decoding unit 4 are controlled.

[0003]

In the prior art shown in FIG. 8 as described above, it is only after the operator goes to the installation place of the facsimile apparatus to actually see or operate the facsimile apparatus. It is possible to know whether there is a received original that has arrived. Therefore, it is inconvenient. This requires a great deal of effort to move to check the received document, especially when the user is in a remote place far away from the place where the facsimile is installed, and if there is no received document, the movement effort is wasted. Become.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus capable of knowing a facsimile reception state even in a remote place.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided information detecting means for detecting information related to facsimile reception when receiving a facsimile via a line, a memory for storing information detected by the information detecting means, and a call origination. A remote control signal detecting means for detecting a remote control signal from the side through the line, and a voice generated by converting the information stored in the memory into a voice signal in response to the output of the remote control signal detecting means. A facsimile apparatus comprising a signal generating means and a means for transmitting a voice signal from the voice signal generating means to the line. The present invention also relates to a source number detecting means for detecting a source number when receiving a facsimile via a line, a memory for storing the source number detected by the source number detecting means, and the line from the calling side. Remote control signal detecting means for detecting a remote control signal via the voice control means, and voice signal generating means for generating a voice signal by converting the source number stored in the memory in response to the output of the remote control signal detecting means. And a means for transmitting the voice signal from the voice signal generating means to the line.

[0006]

According to the present invention, a public telephone line or ISDN
Through the (Integrated service digital network) line, information related to facsimile reception at the time of facsimile reception or the sender number, which is the telephone dial number of the calling side, is detected and stored in memory. When a remote control signal from the remote caller through the line is detected, the information related to the facsimile reception and the sender number are read from the memory, converted into a voice signal and transmitted to the line. . This makes it possible to know at the remote location whether the facsimile machine has received the original document and from which calling side the original has been received. The information related to the facsimile reception at the time of the facsimile reception is, for example, information indicating whether or not there is a received original transmitted, and further, for example, a paper jam occurs in a printer that prints the received original on the recording paper. Information, whether or not the recording paper has been consumed up and is running out of paper, or whether other malfunctions have occurred in the facsimile machine, etc.,
Other information may be used. This information may include a sender number and the like.

The sender number may be transmitted from another facsimile machine terminal via a public telephone line, or may be configured to be transmitted via an ISDN line.

[0008]

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a facsimile apparatus 11 according to an embodiment of the present invention. This facsimile device 11 is connected to a facsimile device 13 on the calling side and a telephone 14 such as a so-called touch-tone phone on the calling side via a line 12 such as a public telephone line or an ISDN line. The telephone set 14 has an input means 15 including a telephone number of a called side and a numeral key of each number 0 to 9 for outputting a remote control signal described later. This input means 15
Contains keys for entering characters such as #. Dial communication can be performed using this input means 15.
Further, while connected to the facsimile apparatus 11 via the line 12, by operating the input means 15, it is possible to continuously transmit tone signals having different frequencies for each key such as each numeric key.

In the facsimile apparatus 11, a main control section 16 including a microcomputer is provided with an input means 17 for inputting a dialed number of a called side when the facsimile apparatus 11 of the present case is operated and a call is originated. The main control unit 16 controls the communication control unit 18.

When the communication control unit 18 receives an image signal from the calling side facsimile apparatus 13 via the line 12, the facsimile apparatus 11 serving as the receiver and the facsimile apparatus 13 serving as the transmitter, The communication procedure shown in FIG. 2 is executed. After the line from the calling side facsimile device 13 to the communication control unit 18 of the called side facsimile device 11 is connected, the main control unit 16 causes the communication control unit 18 to call the called station. Identification signal CED, non-standard function signal NSF, called terminal identification signal C
The SI and the digital identification signal DIS are transmitted in this order.
The calling facsimile machine 13 then transmits the source number TSI, the non-standard function setting signal NSS, and the training check signal TCF in this order to the called facsimile machine 11. As a result, the communication control unit 18 transmits the reception preparation confirmation signal CFR, and then the image signal from the calling facsimile machine 13 is transmitted to the called facsimile machine 11 via the line 12. The communication control unit 18 demodulates the signal via the line 12, and stores the source signal from the calling side facsimile device 13 in the memory 19. The demodulated image signal is decoded by the decoding unit 20 and printed on the recording paper 22 by the printer 21. The operation of the decoding unit 20 is also controlled by the main control unit 16. By connecting the line 12 in this way, the sender number is stored in the memory 19, but when the printer 21 is out of order, the image signal cannot be printed on the recording paper 22. Even in such a case, since the calling party number is stored in the memory 19 as described above, it is convenient to know the calling party.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the main controller 16 of the facsimile apparatus 11 shown in FIG. When a signal for facsimile communication is transmitted from the calling side facsimile device 13 through the line 12 in step a1, the source number TIS is received and stored in the memory 19 in step a2.

When the image signal is received in step a4, the fact is judged in step a4, and in step a5, the received original is obtained by printing on the recording paper 22 in the printer 21 as described above. As another embodiment, this image signal is stored in the memory 23 for storing the received document.
May be configured to be stored in.

At step a6, the main control unit 16 detects whether or not the received document exists by the printer 21 or the memory 23, and a signal indicating the detection result is stored in the memory 24 of the main control unit 16. Thus, the series of operations is completed in step a7.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the configuration for storing the sender number of the sender, that is, the calling side, which is stored in the memory 19. As shown in FIG. 4A, the number of the facsimile machine 13 on the calling side is received by the facsimile machine 11 on the receiving side which is the called side. The demodulated source data is as shown in FIG.
The data are sequentially stored in the memory 19. The reference mark H is 16
Numerical values for each digit of the transmission source number, which is represented by a decimal number represented by a hexadecimal number, is shown in parentheses. Hexadecimal 20H is
Indicates that it is blank, and the next incoming call source number can be stored. Thus, in the memory 19,
As shown in FIG. 4 (3), for example, a total of 20 digits and digits of each digit of the sender number are stored in hexadecimal numbers in the order of reception in an address predetermined for each number of receptions.

The memory 25 of the main control unit 16 stores information indicating a failure of the printer 21, for example, a jam of the recording paper 22 and the recording paper 22 being consumed up and running out of paper. Such a memory 24, 2
It can be said that the information stored in 5 is information related to facsimile reception at the time of facsimile reception.

In the facsimile machine 11, a detection unit 26 for detecting a remote control signal from the telephone 14 at a remote place.
The telephone 14 is also provided with a voice signal synthesizing and responding unit 27 for synthesizing and converting voice signals to create and derive them. Therefore, the line connection from the remote place is performed through the line 12 by the dial operation using the telephone set 14,
The information and the sender number of the facsimile device 11 can be known by the telephone 14.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the facsimile machine 11 by calling from the telephone set 14. In step b1, the facsimile machine 11 is in a standby state. When it is desired to know the originator transmitted to the facsimile device 11 from a remote place using the telephone 14 and the information related to the facsimile reception at the time of receiving the facsimile, the input means 1 is used.
5, the dial operation is first performed with the numeral keys, and when the reception detection signal CI from the telephone 14 is detected in step b2, the process proceeds to step b3, and the facsimile apparatus 11 receives the call automatically.

In step b4, the remote control signal detecting section 26 is operated by the input means 1 of the telephone 14 via the communication controlling section 18.
The operation of 5 determines whether the remote control signal to be transmitted next is received.

Regarding the remote control signal, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, by operating the push button which is the input means of the telephone set 14 while the line is connected, each control signal 1 or 2 shown as the command content is displayed.
Is sent. That is, in the input means 15, "#,
By pressing "0, 1, #" in this order,
A remote control signal 1 indicating an inquiry for receiving a document is transmitted.

When this is detected in step b5,
In step b6, it is judged whether or not there is the received source number TSI stored in the memory 19,
If the sender number is stored in the memory 19, the process proceeds to step b7. In step b7, the voice signal synthesizing and responding unit 27 synthesizes and creates a voice signal “There is a received original.” And sends it to the line 12 via the communication control unit 18. This voice-synthesized voice signal can be heard at a remote location on the speaker of the handset 28 of the telephone set 14. The presence or absence of the received document may be detected based on the stored contents of the memory 24.

When the input means 15 of the telephone set 14 is operated to input "#, 0, 2, #" shown in FIG. 6 in this order, the remote control signal 2 is transmitted to the line 12.
This remote control signal 2 is the content that the called facsimile machine 11 should start sending the received source number TSI to the line 12. Such remote control signal 2
Is detected by the remote control signal detection unit 26 via the communication control unit 18, and the main control unit 16 reads the source number stored in the memory 19 and gives it to the voice signal synthesis response unit 27. As a result, the voice shown in FIG. 7, "07
Received from 43535521. The voice
It is sent to the line 12. This voice is sounded by the speaker of the handset 28 in the telephone 14. In this way, when the remote control signal 2 is detected in step b8 and it is determined in the next step b9 that there is a caller number stored in the memory 19, the caller number of the caller number is stored in step b10 as described above. An audio signal is sent out.

As still another embodiment of the present invention, the remote control signals are set by increasing variously and stored in the memories 24 and 25 of the facsimile machine 11 in addition to the above-mentioned sender number by each remote control signal. Information related to facsimile reception at the time of facsimile reception, for example, the printer 21 or the memory 2 of the received document as described above.
The presence / absence in 3 and the status of failure of the facsimile apparatus 11 may be transmitted as a voice signal in the voice signal synthesis response unit 27.

The facsimile device 11 detects a remote control signal from the calling side facsimile device 13, and responds to the detected remote control signal by receiving the received original document stored in the memory 23 via the communication control section 18. Although it may have the function of transferring to the line 12, the convenience of use is improved by implementing the present invention particularly in a facsimile apparatus that does not have such a function of transferring a received document.

[0024]

According to the present invention, in a printer of a facsimile machine, a trouble such as a paper jam or a paper shortage,
Even if you cannot see the received document for some reason, you can know the information related to the facsimile reception by the voice signal via the line, know that the failure of the facsimile machine should be repaired, and the sender number Since it can be known by voice, it is possible to prompt the operator to contact the other party and retransmit the image data from the calling side. Further, even at the remote place, the sender number from the facsimile machine can be known by voice, so the caller's destination is contacted and retransmitted to the facsimile machine provided at the desired location. Can be encouraged. In this way, the usability of the facsimile apparatus is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a communication procedure of the facsimile apparatus 11 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of a main control unit 16 of the facsimile device 11 in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a configuration for storing a sender number in a memory 19.

5 is a flow chart for explaining the operation of the main control unit 16 for the telephone set 14 to know the state of the called side facsimile apparatus 11. FIG.

FIG. 6 shows remote control signals 1 and 2 generated from the telephone set 14.
It is a figure for explaining.

7 is a diagram for explaining audio signals 1 and 2 generated from an audio signal synthesis response unit 27. FIG.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a prior art facsimile device 2.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11, 13 Facsimile device 12 Line 14 Telephone 15, 17 Input means 16 Main control unit 18 Communication control unit 19, 23, 24, 25 Memory 21 Printer 22 Recording paper 26 Detection unit 27 Voice signal synthesis response unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An information detecting means for detecting information related to facsimile reception when receiving a facsimile via a line, a memory for storing information detected by the information detecting means, and a remote side from the calling side via the line. A remote control signal detecting means for detecting a control signal; a voice signal generating means for generating the voice signal by converting the information stored in the memory into a voice signal in response to the output of the remote control signal detecting means; And a means for transmitting a voice signal from the means to the line. 2. A sender number detecting means for detecting a sender number when a facsimile is received via a line, a memory for storing the sender number detected by the sender number detecting means, and the line from the calling side. A remote control signal detecting means for detecting a remote control signal via the voice control means, and a voice signal generating means for generating a voice signal by converting the source number stored in the memory in response to the output of the remote control signal detecting means. A facsimile apparatus comprising: a means for transmitting a voice signal from a voice signal generating means to the line.