JPH021465B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a facsimile broadcasting device, and in particular,
The present invention relates to the above-mentioned broadcasting device that once stores originals to be transmitted as image information in a storage device and then transmits them sequentially or at designated times.

In facsimile transmitters, various means have been proposed or utilized for transmitting a signal indicating the time of transmission together with image information. However, the situation in the above-mentioned broadcasting device is different from that in a simple transmitter, and the time at which the operator sets the document and the time at which transmission actually starts are usually different. Especially when sending a large amount of image information to a large number of recipients, there may be a significant delay in the actual sending time due to queues, which can lead to errors in confirmation of the sent document between the sender and the receiver. This sometimes caused confusion.

The present invention focuses on the above problem and attempts to effectively solve it.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

The figure is a block diagram showing a broadcasting device according to the present invention. Reference numeral 1 denotes a facsimile device equipped with a scanning and recording means, an encoding and decoding circuit, a modulation/demodulation circuit, a control circuit, etc. Acts as a machine. A document detection device 2 is provided in the document feeding path of the facsimile device 1 for detecting the presence of a document a to be transmitted using a photoelectric detection switch. 3 controls the signal system of this broadcasting device
The CPU is the main control device, and 4 functions as a character generator that stores programs and converts various signals into binary signals that represent characters.
EPROM or program memory. 5 is a RAM, that is, a work memory, which functions as a counter for calculating the number of sheets of the original document a, and 6 is a RAM that stores various operational commands along with the telephone number of the receiving party.
That is, it is a command memory, and 7 is a timer that issues a time signal. Reference numeral 8 denotes a magnetic disk, ie, an image information memory, for storing and accumulating the image information of the document a sent from the facsimile device 1 via the buffer/switch 9, and 10 is a keyboard for performing various input operations. 11 and 12 are facsimile devices 1
13 is a dialer interface that converts the telephone number stored in the command memory 6 into dial pulses.

The operation of the above-mentioned broadcasting device will be explained step by step.

(b) By operating the keyboard 10, the receiving party's telephone number is registered in the command memory 6 in advance.

(b) Enter the destination, designated transmission time, and number of originals into the command memory 6 using the keyboard 10. At this time, the number of sheets is also stored in the work memory 5.

(c) The above number of documents a are set in facsimile device a, and the image information is transferred to buffer/switch 9.
The data are sequentially stored on the magnetic disk 8 via the.

(d) The above accumulation start time for the first document a is extracted from the timer 7 and the command memory 6
is memorized.

(e) Every time each sheet of document a is accumulated, the document detection device 2 sequentially detects the number of sheets, that is, the pages, counts it in the work memory 5, and stores a page in the program memory 4 indicating the page number of the document. A number signal is sent.
At this time, signals indicating the accumulation start time and the number of originals to be transmitted are simultaneously sent from the command memory 6.

(f) The program memory 4 receives each of the above signals, converts them into signals indicating characters such as "April 10, 1982 13:30 P-01/05", and stores each page of document a along with its image information. It is accumulated on the magnetic disk 8.

(g) The above (a) to (f) are controlled via the CPU 3, and the image information for each page of document a includes the accumulation start time of the first page, the number of document sheets accumulated at once, and the page A number is added and stored.

(h) When the above image information is transmitted, characters indicating each of the above information are recorded on the receiving side together with the image information.

As mentioned above, in this broadcasting device, when multiple sheets of originals are successively transmitted to the same recipient, the storage start time of the first sheet of the original is recorded on each received sheet along with its image information. Therefore, items with the same time are judged to have been prepared for transmission at the same time, and furthermore, this time allows the sending and receiving sides to reliably exchange information such as confirming the original documents, so the sending This has the effect of not causing confusion on the receiving side and on the receiving side. It becomes possible.

As explained above, according to the present invention, it was possible to obtain an effective time record that matched the characteristics of the broadcasting device, and the intended purpose was successfully achieved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figure is a block diagram of a facsimile broadcasting device according to the present invention. 2... Original detection device, 3... CPU, 4... Program memory, 7... Timer, 8... Magnetic disk, a... Original.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A facsimile broadcasting device that has an image information memory that stores and accumulates image information of a document to be transmitted and a timer that sends out a clock signal, and that transmits the accumulated image information sequentially or at a specified time. A document detection device that sequentially detects the number of document sheets during the accumulation, a character generator that converts various signals into character signals and adds them to the image information, and a character generator that detects the number of document sheets based on the signals of the document detection device. The main control device extracts the accumulation start time of the second original from a timer and acts on a character generator to add a character signal indicating the accumulation start time to the image information for each sheet of the original. Features of facsimile broadcasting device.