JPH02243052A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain calculation of charge in an impartial and accurate way by calculating a communication charge in the unit of each document through the proportional distribution of an encoded quantity of each document with respect to a total communication time required for the communication of plural documents. CONSTITUTION:A picture signal read by an original read section 1 is sent to an encoder 2 as a signal (a) in the unit of one scanning line. The encoder 2 encodes the signal in the unit of one document under the control of a main control section 5 and the resulting signal is stored in a memory circuit 3 for documents A, B, C as a signal (b). Furthermore, total encoded quantities XA, XB, XC with respect to document A, B, C are stored in the main control section 5 as a signal (d). The document is sent from a memory circuit 3 to a communication control section 4 and sent to an opposite equipment. The main control section 5 applies charge calculation as shown in figure thereby applying impartial charge calculation, where (y) is a communication required time from the start of communication till the interruption of communication and Z is a communication charge per unit time.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Usage Count] The present invention relates to a facsimile device, and particularly relates to calculation of communication charges for each document in serial transmission that enables communication of multiple documents in one communication call. .

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, when calculating the communication fee for each document when sending multiple documents to the same destination in one communication call, the first sent document is charged at the same time, or The entire connection control time of the other party was being charged to the first document. In this case, the above-mentioned partner connection control time should be charged commonly to each document, and is generally 0.
3 communication requires about 10 seconds, and charging only the first document results in unfair and inaccurate charge calculations.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Therefore, the present invention has been made to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks.
An object of the present invention is to fairly and accurately calculate communication charges for each document. That is, the purpose is to perform fair and accurate charge calculations by proportionally allocating the total communication time required for one call according to the amount of encoding of each document.

[Means to solve the problem]

In other words, the present invention calculates the total amount of encoding for each document, and calculates the total amount of encoding for each document, and
The communication fee is calculated by proportionally distributing the total encoded amount of each document.

〔Example〕

Next, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, the reference number is a document reading unit that reads the document to be transmitted, 2 is an encoder that encodes the image signal from 1 in units of scanning lines, and 3 is an encoder that stores the encoded image signals in units of one document. 4 is a communication control unit that transmits a plurality of documents in one communication call, and 5 is a main control unit that performs overall control and charge calculation.

The image signal read by the document reading section 1 is sent to the encoder 2 as a signal a in units of scanning lines, and the image signal is encoded. 2, encoding is performed on a document-by-document basis under the control of the main control section 5, and the encoded data is sent out as a signal. At this time, when the entire encoding of one document is completed, the total encoding amount of the document is calculated and sent to the main control section 5. In the present invention, there are three types of documents to be serially transmitted, which are referred to as documents A, B, and C. Also, each document) A,
Let xA, XB, and Xc be the above-mentioned total encoded amounts for B and C. (See FIG. 3.) That is, the encoder 2 sends encoded data as a signal to the memory circuit 3, and the memory circuit 3 stores the document as document A in its memory. At the same time, the coding amount XA in this case is notified to the main control unit 5 as a signal d.

By repeating these operations, the documents set by the operator are stored in the memory unit 3 as documents B and C, and x! l, Xc are notified to 5.

As described above, documents with the same destination are stored in the memory circuit 3, and communication to the other party is started under the control of the main control section 5.

The operation when making a communication call will be explained below. 5, the communication control unit 4 makes a communication call for serial transmission, and after executing the connection control procedure with the other party, the transmission of the document is started.

Documents are sequentially transferred from memory circuit 3 to document A.
, B, and C and sent as signal C to the communication control section 4, and further sent to the other party's device via the communication line. FIG. 2 shows these communication sequences. Documents A, B, and C are sequentially transmitted to the other party's device in this order, and finally, the communication is disconnected (communication ends). In this case, the time required for communication from the time when a communication call is made until the communication is disconnected, which is generally the communication time during which the line is put on hold, is 7 hours. Therefore, these 7 hours will be billed for the entire communication, and in this case, the three documents A, B, and C will be billed together.

Next, in the main control unit 5, the document A is displayed.

The encoded amounts XA, XB, and XC of B and C are held,
Based on the above seven hours, the communication charge for each document is calculated according to the calculation formula shown in FIG. Here, 2 in Figure 3
indicates the communication charge per unit time.

In this way, charges are calculated according to the calculation shown in FIG. 3, and accurate and fair charges can be calculated based on the amount of communication data according to the amount of encoding of each document.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention enables fair and accurate fee calculation when sending multiple documents to the same destination for one communication call by using the encoding amount of each document. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a communication sequence, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a communication fee table. 1... Original reading unit, 2... Encoder,
3...Memory circuit, 4...Communication control section, 5...Main control section. Agent Patent Attorney Susumu Uchihara

Claims (1)

[Claims] An encoder that encodes each document according to a prescribed encoding method and can calculate the total amount of encoding for one document, a storage means that stores a plurality of encoded documents, and one communication. The system has a communication means that enables the transmission of multiple documents by making a call, and calculates the communication fee for each document in continuous document transmission in which multiple documents are sent to the same destination after making a single communication call. A facsimile device characterized in that the amount of encoding of each document is divided proportionally to the total communication time required for communicating a plurality of documents.