JPS6319958A - Facsimile intercommunication system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To ensure the mutual communication between facsimile equipments of different communication systems by transmitting the address information as picture signals to a relay facsimile equipment that can have communication with both facsimile equipments for relaying those picture signals. CONSTITUTION:When the information is transmitted to a GIV device 3 from a GIII device, the relay request information and the address information are written onto an OMR sheet 22 in a prescribed format. The sheet 22 is set at the 1st page of a transmitting original 23 and the transmission data is supplied for a relay facsimile equipment 25. At the side of the equipment 25, a picture signal recognizing part 17 recognizes that the picture data on the 1st page is equal to the sheet 22 and analyzes the picture signals of that page. A main control part 18 decodes relay request and an address and gives the switching indications to a switching part 12 and a data compressing part 9 to compress the picture data on the 2nd and following pages by a prescribed compression system. These compressed picture data are stored in a transmission buffer 10 and then transmitted through a circuit control part 16 after the recognized address GIV device 3 is connected with a circuit.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] This is a facsimile communication method that performs mutual communication between facsimile machines using different communication methods, in which facsimile machines having respective communication means are used as relays, and relay request information and relay request information are sent to the relay facsimile machines. The destination information is converted into an image signal and sent together with both data, relay facsimile '28
recognizes this and transfers the image data to the specified destination facsimile device.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to facsimile communications, and more particularly to improving mutual communication methods between existing facsimile machines using different communication methods.

Facsimile machines that use lines have been standardized into groups 1 to 4 (hereinafter referred to as 61 to The lines used are also different.

Among the above groups, 0111 machines are widely used and GIV machines are also appearing, but for example, GI [[ and GN machines have different communication means, so there is a problem that they cannot communicate with each other by facsimile. .

For this reason, various methods have been tried, but there is a need for a simple facsimile communication system that allows mutual communication without modifying existing facsimile machines.

[Conventional technology]

Hereinafter, with reference to Figure 3, an explanatory diagram of the conventional facsimile communication system between GI[-GrV machines,
Explain an example.

As shown in Figure 3, G11l-GrV machine 1 is G111.
It is equipped with a G1 communication means 4 and a GIVill communication means 5 that communicate with the machine 2 and GIVi3, respectively, and a conversion means 6 that mutually converts the respective communication means. 3 means dedicated line 1
01.

Here, in order to perform facsimile communication between the 0mg12, C, and IV machines, the GI/GrV machine I can be used as a relay machine, but the destination must be notified to the GI [[/GIVil].

For this reason, the 0m machine 2 or the GIV machine 3 is equipped with a Bushhonf, and the GI [I/GrV machine 1 is equipped with a telephone answering device 8, and the GII [/GIV machine 1 that receives the relay request is A method has been proposed in which a call is made to the device GIlI machine 2 and the destination is input via the telephone answering device 8 via the telephone 7.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the mutual communication system between the 0111 machine and the cry machine described above, it was necessary to provide a telephone answering device to the GNL/GIV machine as a relay machine, and to provide a telephone to each facsimile machine.

In order to attach this button phone, an adapter is required, and there is a problem in that a large number of CI[I machines that are already installed must be modified.

The present invention does not modify the existing GII aircraft, and the G I[[1
- The purpose is to provide a facsimile communication method for mutual communication between GIV machines.

[Means for solving problems]

For the above purpose, the facsimile communication system of the present invention provides an image signal recognition means (1) for recognizing and decoding relay request information and destination information converted into image signals, as shown in FIG. 2o); and a relay means (21) for converting the communication means to a facsimile machine having a second communication means and transmitting the image data based on the image signal received together with the image data by the first communication means; and transmits the image signal together with the image data to the relay facsimile apparatus to communicate with facsimile apparatuses having different communication means.

[Effect]

When performing facsimile communication between destinations using different communication methods, such as CI [
READER) sheet, and add this to one of the sent manuscripts.
Set it on the first page and read it, and use GI [
[Transmit to a relay facsimile machine equipped with machine-GIV machine conversion means.

The relay facsimile machine recognizes the OMR sheet based on a predetermined mark signal on the OMR sheet, and decodes the relay request information and destination information from the image signal of the page.

As a result, the image data received from the second page onward is converted and transferred to the communication means of the destination facsimile machine.

As described above, existing facsimile machines can perform mutual communication by transmitting destination information and the like using image signals to the relay facsimile machine and requesting the relay.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

FIG. 2 (al is a block diagram of the relay facsimile apparatus of the embodiment, in FIG. 2) is an operation flowchart.

The relay facsimile device (Fig. 1-25) of this embodiment is G
It is equipped with a function to perform facsimile communication with the III machine and GIVi9 (GT [I/GrV machine), as well as an image signal recognition means 20 and a relay means 21 that converts and transfers to the communication means of the specified destination. be.

In FIG. 2 (al), 9 is a data compression unit that includes a plurality of data compression means, 13 is a data recovery unit that is equipped with a data recovery unit that corresponds to the data compression unit, and 15 is a line control unit that communicates with the G111 aircraft 2. 16 is a communication control unit that communicates with GIVi3, and is connected to the public line 100.
The one connected to 01, 17, recognizes the OMR sheet from the received image data, decodes the image signal, and the relay request 12 outputs the restored image data to the recording unit 1/' or outputs the data. A switching unit 18 is a main control unit which, when recognizing a relay request, converts both received data and controls the transfer to a destination facsimile machine. The case of sending will be explained as an example. (See Figure 2(b)) (IIOM
Relay request information and destination information are written in a predetermined format on the R sheet 22, set on the first page of the transmission document 23, and transmission data to the relay facsimile device 25 is input.

(2) As a result of the above, the OMR sheet 22 is transferred to the transmission original 23.
It is also read and transmitted to the relay facsimile machine 25.

(3) In the relay facsimile machine 25, when the image signal recognition section 17 recognizes that the image data of the first page is an OMR sheet, it analyzes the image signal of that page.

(4) After decoding the relay request and destination, the main control unit 18 switches to the switching unit 12. This image data is transmitted through the line control unit 16 after the line is connected to the recognized destination GTV machine.

The above is an example of transmitting from the CM machine to the 08 machine, but communication can be performed in the same way in the opposite direction.

As described above, the source facsimile device can transmit the original to a facsimile device with a different communication means by transmitting the OMR sheet recording relay request information and destination information together with the original to the relay facsimile device 25.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The present invention performs mutual communication with facsimile machines using different communication methods by transmitting destination information as an image signal to relay facsimile machines capable of communicating with facsimile machines using different communication methods, and relaying the destination information as an image signal. The effect of not having to modify the facsimile machine is extremely large.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 2 (bl is an operation flowchart, Figure 3 is an explanatory diagram of the facsimile communication method between conventional G■ and GIV machines. In the figure, 1 is the G■ and Grv machine, 2 is cm, 1.3 is GIVi
, 7 is a telephone, 8 is a telephone answering device, 9 is a data compression unit, 10 is a transmission buffer,
12 is a switching unit, 13 is a data restoration unit, 14 is a reception buffer, 15 is a line control unit, 16 is a line control unit, 17 is an image signal recognition unit, 18 is a main control unit, 22 is an OMR sheet, 23 is a transmission document , 25 is a relay facsimile machine. Fig. 1F
at

Claims (1)

[Claims] A relay facsimile device (25) comprising a plurality of communication means for communicating with facsimile devices of different communication methods.
Based on the image signal recognition means (20) that recognizes and decodes the relay request information and destination information converted into image signals, and the image signal received together with the image data by the first communication means,
relay means (21) for converting the communication means to a facsimile device having a second communication means and transmitting the image data, and transmitting the image signal together with the image data to the relay facsimile device, A facsimile intercommunication method characterized by communicating with different facsimile devices.