JPH04207560A - Communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the increase in a communication cost due to dirt or illegibility of a transmission original and due to increase in page number of the transmission original by providing a character input means, a display means, a transmission reception means and a delete means to the equipment. CONSTITUTION:An optional message is inputted by a character input means 31 and the inputted message is displayed on a display means 32. The message is added to sender information and sent by a transmission reception means 33 and recorded in a header area at an upper end of each recording face of a reception terminal equipment and after the end of transmission, the message is automatically deleted by a delete means 34. Thus, a trouble of illegibility or dirt in the transmission original or hand-written input due to direct description of the message onto the transmission original or an increase in the communication cost due to transmission of the message as an independent page is prevented.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a communication device such as a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a communication device that can add an arbitrary message to sender information and send the message.

[Blue slip of the invention] Recent facsimile machines are equipped with one-touch dial keys. - Calling (dial operation) to the telephone number of the communication partner registered corresponding to each one-touch dial key requires pressing that key once. This can be done by (one touch).

These one-touch dial keys are arranged with one letter of the alphabet or 50 syllables assigned thereto to identify each key.

An example of the key arrangement of the operating section 21 of the facsimile machine described above is shown in FIG. be.

In addition, facsimile machines are equipped with a sender information recording function, which automatically records sender information such as the sender's name, recipient number, and sending date in a fixed format as header information at the top of the recording paper received by the receiving terminal. It has become so.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the above-mentioned communication device, the header information that is automatically added to the transmission document and transmitted at the time of transmission can only be set in a certain format, such as the above-described information determined by the device.

Therefore, for example, when you want to add a specific person's name as the destination, or when you want to add an arbitrary message such as a message, you can write this directly into the sending document as normal image information instead of as header information. ,
I even used this as the first page of the submitted manuscript. Therefore,
This method has disadvantages in that the transmitted original may become dirty, and the number of pages of the transmitted original may increase, leading to an increase in communication costs.

Therefore, the present invention proposes a communication device that can eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks by adding any message such as an arbitrary personal name or message to the above-mentioned sender information and transmitting the message.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a communication device for transmitting a document, which includes a character input means for inputting an arbitrary message, and a display for displaying the input message. a display means for displaying the inputted message/message; a transmitting/receiving means for adding the message to sender information and transmitting the message; and a deleting means for deleting the message after transmission is completed. It is something to do.

[Operation] In the present invention, an arbitrary message is input by the character input means 31 shown in FIG. 1, and the input message is displayed on the display means 32.

This message is added to the conventional sender information, transmitted by the transmitting/receiving means 33, and recorded in the header area 53 (FIG. 4) at the upper end of each recording surface of the receiving terminal. After the transmission is completed, this message is automatically deleted by the deletion means 34.

This can prevent stains and obscurity of the transmitted document caused by writing the message directly on the transmitted document, complexity of handwritten input, or increase in communication costs caused by transmitting the message as an independent page.

[Embodiment] Next, a case where an example of the communication device according to the present invention is applied to the above-mentioned facsimile device will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1 and subsequent figures.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an example of a configuration when the present invention is applied to a facsimile machine, and FIG. 2 is an overall configuration diagram thereof.

In the first district, 31 is a character input means for inputting an arbitrary message to be transmitted to the sender using character keys, 32 is a display means for displaying this message, and 33 is a transmitting/receiving means for adding this message to header information and transmitting it. , 34
is an erasing means that automatically erases used messages.

25th! In the communication means COM shown in i, 11 is a CPU that controls communication, and the erasing means 34 (FIG. 1) is a CPU that controls communication.
Corresponds to part of PUI 1. 12 is a ROM that stores communication control programs, etc., and 13 is a RAM that stores image signals to be transmitted and the like.

Reference numeral 14 denotes an image reading unit that reads the transmitted original as an image signal.The image signal is once stored in the RAM 13 via the interface 15 or directly sent to the line by the modem and network body m circuit (NCIJ) 16. The transmitting/receiving means 33 (FIG. 1) corresponds to this modem NCL 116.

The header information and image signals received by the modem/NCU 16 via the line are temporarily stored in the RAM 13 or directly supplied to the recording unit 18 via the interface 17, where the header information and image signals with messages added are stored. print out.

FIG. 4 shows an example of this. In this example, an area 52 in which header information is recorded is divided into upper and lower two stages (two lines), and the upper area 53 is a regular header area. In this fixed header area 53, conventionally known sender information (sender's name, sending date and time, calling time, etc.) as described above is recorded.

On the other hand, the lower area 54 is an additional message area, in which the above-mentioned message (a specific individual's name or a message for this individual's name) is recorded. Although the additional message area 54 is allocated as an area for approximately one line, an area for several lines may be reserved as the additional message area. However, in this case, care must be taken as there is a risk that part of the original image information may be missing.

The operation unit 21 of the communication means COM is provided with a large number of keys, as shown in FIG. corresponds to the section.

Information such as messages inputted through the operation section 21 is inputted to the display section 20 via the interface 22.19, and the display section 20 displays the messages. Display means 32 (
FIG. 1) corresponds to this display section.

The operations of each functional block 31 to 34 shown in FIG. 1 will be explained with reference to the flowchart in FIG. 3.

First, in step STI, function key 4
2 to set the mode. If there is a message to be added to the automatically transmitted header information, set to message input mode. When this message input mode is selected, the one-touch dial key 44 (FIG. 5) becomes a character input key and constitutes the character input means 31.

Character input in message input mode (step 5T)
2) can be done as easily as with a typewriter,
The input characters are displayed on the display unit 20 corresponding to the display means 32.9 When the message to be added is completed by character input, the registration key 42b is pressed to exit the message input mode and return to step STI.

If the transmission mode is set here (step 5T1), it will be determined whether there is a message to be added (step 5T4).
, if there is no message, the sender information in a fixed form is sent as header information together with the transmission document, as in the conventional apparatus (step ST6).

If there is a message to be added, after adding this message to the fixed source information (step 5T5),
This transmission process is performed by the modem NCU1 corresponding to the transmitting/receiving means 33.
6.

After the transmission is completed, the used message is automatically erased under the control of the erasing means 34, which corresponds to a part of the CPU 11 (
In step 5T7), this message is prevented from being accidentally reused during the next transmission.

The transmitted additional message and sender information are received by the receiving terminal and printed out as a header 52 at the top of each receiving paper 51, as shown in FIG.

Note that the communication device according to the present invention can be applied to devices other than the above-mentioned facsimile device.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the communication device according to the present invention having the above-described configuration, an arbitrary message can be added as header information in addition to the conventional sender information, so that there is no need to worry about smearing or smudging caused by writing an additional message directly on the transmission document. This has the effect of preventing an increase in communication costs due to making the additional message an independent page.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the functions of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an overall configuration diagram of a communication device according to the invention, Fig. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 shows the header on the received page. The figure shown in FIG. 5 is a key arrangement diagram of the operation section. CPU 2-ROM 13 RAM 16 Modem 20 Display section 21 Operation section 31 Character input means 32...Display means 33...Transmission/reception means 34/Erasing means 42...Function key 42b...Registration key 44/One-touch dial key 51 Receiving page 52 To/under 53 To/from fixed form area 54 Additional message/nosage area Patent applicant Konica Co., Ltd. Agent Patent attorney Kuni Yamaguchi Daido
Patent attorney Eiji Sasaki This invention f! Function block diagram Figure 1 COM: Communication means

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a communication device for transmitting a document, a character input means for inputting an arbitrary message, a display means for displaying the inputted message, and a transmission/reception device for adding the above message to sender information and transmitting it. A communication device comprising: means for erasing the message after the transmission is completed.