JPH0723161A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To send an original with only sender information of a self station added thereto when an original with sender information added thereto is received and relayed to other station. CONSTITUTION:A control section 3 receives an NSS signal sent from a master station by a communication control section 4 at the time of the operation as a slave station to extract a width of sender information (TTI) of the master station and it is stored in a memory 6, the original from the master station is received and stored in the memory 6. When the original received in the memory 6 is sent to a designated sub slave station and the width of the TTI of the slave station is narrower than the width of TTI of the master station, the control section 3 eliminates the TTI part of the master station from the received original and adds the TTI of the slave station on an upper end of the original and sends the resulting original to the sub slave station by a communication control section 7, and when the width of TTI of the slave station is wider than the width of the TTI of the master station, after the TTI of the slave station is overlapped on the TTI of the master station added to the received original, the original is sent to the sub slave station by the communication control section 7.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine which transmits and receives source information (TTI) together with a document, and more particularly to a method of adding a TTI section of a facsimile machine which serves as a repeater when a document is relayed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a master station (facsimile apparatus) 10 as shown in FIG. 8 transmits a document to a slave station (facsimile apparatus) 20, the slave station receives the document as a designated grandchild station (facsimile station). It may be relayed to the device 30. In such a case, since the slave station 20 does not distinguish between the TTI section sent from the master station 10 and the manuscript section, a new TTI is added to the slave station 20 and the manuscript section is sent to the grandchild station 30. In the case of distribution, there has been a conventional TTI addition method as described below. That is, (1) the slave station 20 receives from the master station 10 outside the upper end of the received document with TTI added as shown in FIG. Add TTI B. Therefore, the received document becomes longer by the TTI added by the slave station 20. Therefore, (2) the slave station 20 receives the slave station as shown in FIG. 10B in the TTI portion of the received document to which the TTI is added as shown in FIG. 10A received from the master station 10. Overwriting 20 TTIs was also done.

In the case of adopting the conventional TTI addition method as described above, in the method (1), both the TTI added by the master station and the TTI added by the slave station are shown in FIG. )
It is received as shown in, and normally required TT of the grand station
There was a drawback that I was hard to see. In the method (2), the width of the TTI added by the master station in the sub-scanning direction (hereinafter T
When the TTI width of the slave station is larger than the TTI width added by the slave station, as shown in FIG. 10B, the TTI b of the slave station is added while a part of the TTI of the master station remains. However, the manuscript was sent to the grandchild station 30, which also had the drawback of being difficult to see.

[0004]

In the conventional facsimile machine as a slave station as described above, when the received document to which the TTI of the master station is added is relay-transmitted to the grandchild station, the TTI of the slave station is transmitted. When it is added to the original document and transmitted to the grandchild station, the original document in which all or part of the TTI of the master station remains is transmitted to the grandchild station, so that the TTI of the slave station received by the grandchild station becomes difficult to see. There was a flaw.

Therefore, the present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks, and
It is an object of the present invention to provide a facsimile apparatus which, when receiving a manuscript to which I is added and relay-transmitting this to another station, can send only the TTI of the own station to the manuscript.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a facsimile apparatus having a function of once receiving a document sent from a master station and then relaying the received document to a grandchild station designated by the master station. , Extracting means for extracting the width in the sub-scanning direction of the source information added to the original document by the master station from the facsimile communication preprocessing performed with the master station, and the master station extracted by this extracting means Comparing the width of the transmission source information added by the facsimile apparatus to the width of the transmission source information added to the original in the sub-scanning direction, and the width of the transmission source information added by the master station by this comparison means. If it is determined that the width of the source information added by the device is larger than the width of the source information added by the device, after deleting the source information of the master station from the received document, the source information of the device is added to this deleted part Send to the grandchild station If the width of the transmission source information added by the master station is smaller than the width of the transmission source information added by this device by the transmission source information addition means and the comparison means, The second transmission source information addition means for overwriting the transmission source information of this apparatus on the portion to which the transmission source information is added and transmitting the original document to the grand station.

[0007]

In the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, the extracting means extracts the width in the sub-scanning direction of the transmission source information added to the document at the master station by the facsimile communication pre-processing performed with the master station. The comparing means compares the width of the source information added by the master station extracted by the extracting means with the width in the sub-scanning direction of the source information added to the original by the facsimile apparatus. The first source information adding unit determines, from the received document, the parent station from the received document when the comparing unit determines that the width of the source information added by the master station is larger than the width of the source information added by the apparatus. After deleting the transmission source information, the transmission source information of the apparatus is added to the deleted portion and the original is transmitted to the grand station. The second transmission source information adding means, when the comparison means determines that the width of the transmission source information added by the master station is smaller than the width of the transmission source information added by this apparatus, the parent of the received original document. The transmission source information of this apparatus is overwritten on the portion to which the transmission source information of the station is added, and the original is transmitted to the grand station. As a result, only the sender information of the relayed facsimile machine (slave station) is written in the original document received by the grandchild station.
The operator of the grand station can definitely see only the transmission source information of the relay destination.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the facsimile apparatus of the present invention. Reference numeral 1 is a reading / scanning section for reading an original, 2 is a recording / scanning section for printing image data of a received original on a recording sheet, 3 is a control section for performing facsimile communication control and TTI addition control, and 4 is an incoming / outgoing call and image. A communication control unit that transmits and receives data, etc., and includes a modem 41 and an NC.
It has U42. Reference numeral 5 is a key operation unit for an operator to input data and commands to the apparatus, which forms a man-machine interface. Reference numeral 6 is a memory for storing various data necessary for the control unit 3 to operate, and reference numeral 7 is a telephone line connected to the NCU 42.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. First, a case where the device shown in FIG. 1 operates as a master station will be described. After the operator sets the transmission original document on the reading scanning unit 1, the key scanning unit 5 makes a relay broadcast transmission request to the control unit 3, and the destination information of the relay station (slave station) and the final transmission destination of the original document. The destination information of (grandchild) is input from the key scanning unit 5 to the control unit 3. When the control unit 3 receives the relay broadcast transmission request and the destination information from the key scanning unit 5, it activates the reading scanning unit 1 to read the original document, store it in the memory 6 once, and then perform normal relaying. According to the broadcast transmission procedure, the NCU 42 of the communication control unit 4 makes a call to the slave station. With this, when the line connects with the slave station,
The control unit 3 reads out the original document from the memory 6, encodes it, modulates it by the modem 41, and then sends it out over the telephone line 7 by the NCU 42. At this time, the control unit 3 adds the TTI to the beginning of the transmission original document and starts transmission of the original document. During the pre-facsimile communication preprocessing procedure performed when the line is connected to the slave station, the width information of the TTI is started. NS
It is included in the S signal and transmitted to the slave station. The width information of the TTI included in the NSS signal is expressed by the number of scanning lines of the TTI included in the image data to be transmitted,
It is input into the NSS signal in the format shown by 400 in FIG.

Next, a case where the facsimile apparatus shown in FIG. 1 operates as a slave station which is a relay station will be described. When the incoming call from the master station is in the NCU 42, the communication control unit 4 connects the line to the master station. After that, the control unit 3 performs a pre-processing procedure of facsimile communication with the master station, and at this time, the TTI of the master station included in the NSS signal sent from the master station.
Width information is extracted and stored in the memory 6. When the pre-processing procedure is completed, the control unit 3 receives the document (image data) sent through the telephone line 7 by the modem 41 via the NCU 42 and demodulates it, and then temporarily stores it in the memory 6. In this way, the control unit 3 receives all the originals transmitted from the master station, and then executes the post-processing procedure for facsimile communication to end the communication.

Next, the control unit 3 calls the communication control unit 4 from the NCU 42 to the grand station according to the destination information of the grand station designated by the master station, and after the line is connected, the facsimile communication pre-processing procedure is performed. The original document stored in the memory 6 is read out and transmitted to the grand station. At this time, the controller 3 controls the memory 6
After the TTI of its own station is added in place of the TTI from the parent station added to the beginning of the original read from, the original is transmitted to the grandchild station. At this time, the control unit 3 performs the TTI addition control as shown in the flowchart of FIG.

First, the control unit 3 determines in step 301 whether or not to add the TTI in the slave station. If not added, the process ends, and if it is added, the process proceeds to step 302.
The setting of whether or not to add the TTI at this slave station is assumed to have been set in advance in a predetermined area of the memory 6 by the operator from the key operation unit 5. The control unit 3 performs step 30
In step 2, it is determined whether the TTI is added to the inside or outside of the received document. If it is added to the outside, the process proceeds to step 303, and if it is added to the inside, the step 3 is performed.
Go to 04. Here, it is assumed that whether the TTI is added inside the document or outside the document is set in advance in a predetermined area of the memory 6 by the operator through the key operation unit 5. When the process proceeds to step 303, the control unit 3 performs the process of adding the TTI to the outside of the upper part of the received document and ends the process. On the other hand, if the process proceeds to step 304, the control unit 3
Compares the TTI width of the master station stored in the memory 6 with the TTI width added by the slave station, and the TTI width of the master station is the TT of the slave station.
If the width is greater than or equal to the I width, the process proceeds to step 306, and the TTI of the master station
When the width is narrower than the TTI width of the slave station, the process proceeds to step 305. In step 305, the control unit 3 overwrites the TTI of the slave station on the upper part of the top of the first received document and ends the process. On the other hand, if the process proceeds to step 306, the control unit 3 deletes the TTI of the master station added to the upper part of the first received document, and then in step 307, deletes the TTI of the slave station from the top of the received document. Add and end the process.

FIG. 4 (A) shows an example of a received document received from the parent station at the child station, and FIG. 4 (B) shows a transmission from the child station to the grand station when the TTI is not added at the child station. An example of a manuscript is shown. In addition, the part a in the figure is the TTI added by the master station.
It is a part. FIG. 5 (A) shows an example of a received document received by a slave station, and FIG. 5 (B) shows an example of a transmitted document to a grandchild station when TTI is added to the outside of the document at the slave station. Is. TTI of the slave station on the outside of the document outside the TTI of the master station
B is added.

FIG. 6A shows an example of a received document received by the slave station, and FIG. 6B shows the TTI width of the master station as the TT of the slave station.
When the width is smaller than the I width, the TTI of the slave station is overwritten on the upper part of the received document to show an example of the transmission document to the grandchild station. The part B is the TTI part of the slave station. There is. FIG. 7 (A) shows an example of a received document received by a slave station, and FIG. 7 (B) deletes the TTI part of the master station when the TTI width of the master station is larger than the TTI width of the slave station. Later, TTI of the child station
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a transmission document to a grand station created by adding the above to the reception document, and the portion B is the TTI portion of the slave station.

According to the present embodiment, the master station transmits the TTI width information added by the master station, and the TTI of the slave station is added to the original received from the master station based on the TTI width information. 6B or 7 if specified by the operator
As shown in (B), it is possible to add only the TTI of the slave station to the top station of the first sheet of the received document and transmit it to the grand station.
As a result, the operator of the sub-station can receive the received original document to which only the TTI of the sub-station has been added, and the TTI can be easily seen and misreading can be prevented.

[0016]

As described above, according to the facsimile apparatus of the present invention, when a TTI-added original is received and relayed to another station, only the TTI of the own station is added to the original. Can be sent.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a facsimile apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a format example of an NSS signal transmitted from a master station.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of TTI addition control by the control unit shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a received document and a transmitted document of a slave station.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing another example of a received document and a transmitted document of a slave station.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing still another example of the received document and the transmitted document of the slave station.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing still another example of the received document and the transmitted document of the slave station.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a communication system at the time of relay transmission using a conventional facsimile apparatus.

9 is a diagram showing an example of a received document and a transmitted document of the slave station shown in FIG.

10 is a diagram showing another example of the received document and the transmitted document of the slave station shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Reading scanning unit 2 ... Recording scanning unit 3 ... Control unit 4 ... Communication control unit 5 ... Key operation unit 6 ... Memory 7 ... Telephone line

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile apparatus having a function of receiving a manuscript sent from a master station and then relay-transmitting the received manuscript to a grandchild station designated by the master station. Extracting means for extracting the width of the transmission source information in the sub-scanning direction from the pre-facsimile communication processing performed with the master station, and the width of the transmission source information added by the master station extracted by the extraction means. Comparison means for comparing the width in the sub-scanning direction of the transmission source information added to the original by the facsimile device, and the transmission source information added by the comparison device for the transmission source information added by the master station If it is determined that the information width is larger than the information width, the transmission source information of the master station is deleted from the received original document, the transmission source information of this device is added to the deleted portion, and the original document is transmitted to the grandchild station. 1 source information adding means If the comparison means determines that the width of the transmission source information added by the master station is smaller than the width of the transmission source information added by this device, the transmission source information of the master station of the received document is added. And a second transmission source information adding means for superimposing the transmission source information of the apparatus on the above portion and transmitting the original document to the grandchild station. 2. A facsimile device having a function of first transmitting a document to a facsimile device that transmits the original document and then transmitting the original document to a destination facsimile device, wherein the original document is transmitted to the facsimile device for relay transmission. At this time, the facsimile apparatus is provided with a width information transmitting means for transmitting the width information in the sub-scanning direction of the transmission source information added to the original document to the facsimile apparatus for relay transmission.