JPS6285553A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To secure the accuracy for both a transmitter and a receiver by writing plural addresses to a document when the transmission is carried out to plural addresses and extracting the address data corresponding to the places where the addresses are written at the reception side to print these address data together with the message data. CONSTITUTION:A CPU 10 of a facsimile equipment contains a memory 11 which stores a control program, various data, etc., and a buffer memory 12 which stores the reception data on documents and at the same time edits the print data. At the same time, a reading device 13 reads the document data and a printer 14 prints the received data. Furthermore an automatic dial device 15 is added together with a keyboard 16 and a MODEM 17 for transmission and reception. Then a document including an address, a message and a memo column is transmitted from the transmission side. At the reception side, the address data corresponding to the address column is extracted and printed together with the message data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Summary of the Invention] When data related to the transmitted address and text data are received, they are temporarily stored.

Prints the address data and text data corresponding to the specified position.

Background of the invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine.

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, facsimiles have become widely used, and many documents (a sheet of paper recording data, information, etc. to be transmitted, or such data or information) are routinely transmitted using facsimiles. Same document with different i! The same document is frequently sent to multiple locations, ie, sent to multiple destinations. With conventional facsimile machines, even if the document has the same content, the transmission operation must be performed from the beginning for each destination, which is inconvenient. Even if it is unavoidable to input each phone number in order to specify multiple destinations, it is desirable to be able to at least read a common document only once.

Usually for documents sent by facsimile.

The address clearly indicating the department, company, etc. that should receive it is entered. When transmitting the same document from multiple points,
If a document were to be read only once, the document would have to have content common to multiple destinations, so it would no longer be possible to write addresses in the document.

However, from the point of view of ensuring certainty.

There is no doubt that it is preferable for documents received to be addressed.

Summary of the Invention This invention allows multiple recipients to be written in a document when sending to multiple recipients, and the document only needs to be read once, and the recipient receives only the recipients related to the recipient. printed on the document. It is an object of the present invention to provide such a facsimile device.

A facsimile apparatus according to the present invention includes a storage means for receiving data related to one or more addresses and text data, and storing data related to the addresses and text data in correspondence with positions on a document; The present invention is characterized by comprising means for searching for data regarding the address corresponding to the searched position, and means for printing the data regarding the searched address and text data. The data regarding the address includes not only the character (letter, etc.) representation of the address, but also symbols, marks, codes, and the like.

In this invention, on the document transmitting side, all data including multiple address data and text data is transmitted as is. Therefore, on the sending side, there is no need to edit the sending data. Even if a plurality of address data are written on the document (or rather, a plurality of address data must be written), it only needs to be read once.

On the receiving side, only the address data corresponding to the address entry location specific to the receiving facsimile machine is extracted from the received data and printed together with one piece of text data. Therefore, since the person, department, company, etc. that should receive the document are clearly specified in the document, the reliability of facsimile transmission and reception is ensured.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows an outline of the electrical configuration of a facsimile machine.

The facsimile machine is controlled by CPU10, which has a memory 11.0 for storing its programs and various data. It also includes a buffer memory 12 for storing received document data and used for editing print data.

The facsimile machine also includes a reading device, such as an optical reading device 13, for reading document data for transmission. Printer 14 for printing the received data on paper. Automatic dialing device 15. keyboard ig
and a modem 17 for transmission and reception. The keyboard 16 includes a numeric keypad for entering phone numbers, etc. manually.
A start key and the like are provided to start reading the document. Autodialer 15 and keyboard 16 could be replaced by conventional telephone circuitry with autodialing capabilities.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a document to be sent, and FIG. 5 shows an example of documents received and printed at each of the four destinations. In this embodiment, it is possible to send a document to a maximum of four locations by reading the document once. of course.

The number of destinations to which transmission can be made can be arbitrarily designed.

In FIG. 4, the document to be transmitted is illustrated as consisting of one leaf. At the top of this document is an address field where you can enter four different addresses. The place below the address field is 1 (this is the body field where you write the main text common to the number of destinations. The main text consists of the data, information, etc. to be sent. Below the main text field there is , a memo field is provided.The memo, or additional message, has different content depending on the destination, so
The memo field is divided so that separate memos can be entered for each of the four destinations, and these divisions are
Each corresponds to one address. In this example, C
There is no memo to the deputy director.

Lines, codes, or other identification marks may be placed on the boundaries of the address field 1 text field and the memo field so that the reading device 13 can distinguish and read these fields.

The four divisions in which addresses are to be entered in the address field are predetermined for a plurality of facsimile machines that receive this document. for example.

The place where the address is written in the leftmost column (the place where "rA Manager" is written) corresponds to the first facsimile machine, and the second place (the place where "rB Manager" is written) corresponds to the second facsimile machine. etc. The same applies to the four categories in the memo field.

Documents don't have to be one page. For example, the main text may span two or more pages. In addition, the address field and memo field may be arranged in a format in which multiple addresses and memos are listed vertically in addition to the format shown in the figure, which consists of four parts divided into horizontal rows, or in other various formats. The format can be adopted. Also.

The address field and memo field may be on separate pages from the body text field. In any case, in relation to the reading method of the reading device 1.3, the reading device 13 can distinguish and read the address field, body text field, and memo field, and can read multiple addresses and memo fields in the address field. Any device that can distinguish and read multiple memos is sufficient.

In FIG. 5, the received and printed document also includes an address field, a text field, and a memo field. In the address column, only one address corresponding to the receiving side (destination) facsimile machine is printed. The same content as the text field of the sent document is printed in the body field. Only memo data corresponding to the facsimile machine on the receiving side (destination) is printed in the memo field. It goes without saying that the received document does not have to be in exactly the same format as the sent document.

For example, the leftmost received document in Figure 5 is
facsimile machine, the second received document from the left is to be received and printed by the second facsimile machine, respectively.

FIG. 2 shows part of the contents of memory 1.

The memory 1 has an area for storing data for specifying the division (location) of the address field and the division (location) of the memo field. Memory 1 shown in FIG. 2 represents the contents of the memory of the second facsimile machine, and address designation data designates storage area M1b, which will be described later, and memo designation data designates storage area M3b. Specified.

FIG. 3 shows the contents of the receive data area and editing area of the buffer memory 2. The reception data area is composed of an addressee data area M1, a text data area M2, and a memo data area M3. Address data area M1 has areas M1 to Ml that separately store four different address data. Also memo data area M3. It has areas M3 to M3d for storing four different memo data separately. Editing area M4 is for editing data to be printed by printer 4.

FIG. 6 shows the procedure of reception processing of this facsimile machine.

The sending facsimile machine reads and transmits a plurality of address data, common text data, and one or more memo data as shown in FIG. 4 as they are.

When the facsimile machine on the receiving side receives the transmitted data (step 51), the received data is temporarily stored in the received data areas M1 to M3 of the buffer memory 2 (step 52). The four address data are placed in area M1 corresponding to the position IN on the document.
~Ml, respectively. The text data is stored in the text data φ area M2, and is 1 or t!
The number memo data is stored in each area M3 to M3d in the inter-area 3 corresponding to their position on the document.

Next, address designation data (Mlb in the case of the second facsimile machine) in memory 1 is read out, and this data M1
Destination data (rB
"Section Manager") is read out, and the edit area M of the buffer memory is read out.
4 (step 53). Next, the main text area M2
The text data of is transferred to the editing area M4 (step 54). Finally, the memo/memo area M3b in the memo area 3 specified by the memo specification data of the memory 11 is
The data is read out and transferred to the 9 editing area M4 (step 55).

When editing of all data in the second editing area M4 is completed in this way, the edited data is printed by the printer 14 (step 56). It will be easily understood that this causes the received document shown second from the left in FIG. 5 to be output.

Finally, the buffer memory 12 is cleared (step 57).

In this embodiment, one body data is also transferred to the editing area, but since body data is generally long, the one body data area is also used as the editing area, and address data and memo data are transferred there. Good too.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the electrical configuration of a facsimile machine, FIG. 2 shows the contents of the memory, and FIG. 3 shows the contents of the buffer memory. FIG. 4 shows an example of a transmitted document, and FIG. 5 shows an example of a received document received and printed at a plurality of destinations. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of the operation of the facsimile machine. 10...CPU, 11...Memory. 12...Buffer memory, 14...Printer. that's all

Claims (1)

[Claims] Storage means for receiving data and text data related to one or more addresses, and storing the data related to the addresses and the text data in correspondence with the positions on the document. A facsimile device comprising: means for searching for data regarding an addressee corresponding to a searched position; and means for printing data regarding the retrieved address and text data.