JPH0514681A - Facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain high speed of communication by a facsimile equipment, to eliminate a limit on communication of a communication form and to avoid the limit on the sender side equipment. CONSTITUTION:A common form at communication is stored in a format memory 9 as picture signals for one page. When a detection circuit 4 detects a picture signal synthesis command as a communication command from an opposite equipment by a pushbutton dial signal, a picture signal 21 from the opposite equipment is stored in a picture signal memory 8. A control section 6 gives simultaneous read command to the picture signal memory 8 and the format memory 9 and inputs picture signals 24, 25 to a picture signal synthesis circuit 10, in which the both are synthesized to generate a picture signal 30.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a facsimile machine, and more particularly to a facsimile machine having a function of synthesizing an image signal received in advance with an image signal stored in advance.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional facsimile, when the format for communication is always the same, a sheet based on the format for communication is prepared for communication during operation.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional facsimile apparatus, the paper prepared based on the format at the time of communication is made as short as possible in order to shorten the communication time. Therefore, the ruled lines and the like are reduced as much as possible in order to improve the compression efficiency. There are restrictions.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional circumstances, and therefore an object of the present invention is to provide a novel facsimile apparatus capable of solving the above-mentioned problems inherent in the prior art. It is in.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a facsimile apparatus according to the present invention has a format memory for storing a common format at the time of communication as an image signal for one page and reading from the format memory. And an image signal synthesizing circuit for synthesizing the received image signal sent from the partner device with the received image signal, and a detection means for detecting a communication instruction from the partner device by a push button dial signal that arrives while the device itself is in an incoming state. When receiving an incoming call, the device composes the received document that is sent subsequently when the device receives an image signal combining instruction as a communication instruction from the other device, and the image signal stored in advance in the format memory. The feature is that it is recorded.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings with reference to the accompanying drawings.

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

Referring to FIG. 1, a document in which only a common format of a document used for communication is written before the start of communication is read by the reading unit 12 and is used as the image signal 26 in the image signal memory 8
Is output to the format memory 9.

The control unit 6 gives a storage instruction to the format memory 9 by the format memory control signal 22 and stores the read image signal 26.

Normally, the line 13 is connected to the ringer detection circuit 2 via the line switching circuit 1 according to the line switching signal 15 from the control unit 6. When the ringer signal arrives through the line 13, the ringer detection circuit 2 outputs the ringer detection signal 14
To the control unit 6. Based on the ringer detection signal 14, the control unit 6 switches the line switching circuit 1 by the line switching signal 15 and connects the line 13 to the switching circuit 3.

The switching circuit 3 has a switching signal 1 from the control section 6.
6, the line 13 is connected to the push button dial signal detection circuit 4, and the push button dial signal from the other party is waited for a fixed time. Here, when the push button dial signal detection circuit 4 detects the push button dial signal,
The number information 17 is converted and sent to the control unit 6. When this number information is a predetermined document synthesis communication instruction, the control unit 6 controls the switching circuit 3 by the switching signal 16, switches the line 13 to the modem 5, and starts a normal reception operation. Data is received from the partner device, demodulated by the modem 5 and decoded by the encoding / decoding circuit 7, and stored in the image signal memory 8 as the image signal 21.

When data of one page or more is stored in the image signal memory 8, the control unit 6 controls the image signal memory control signal 2
3 and the format memory control signal 22 simultaneously give read instructions to the image signal memory 8 and the format memory 9, and output the image signals 24 and 25 to the image signal synthesis circuit 10. The control unit 6 gives an instruction of synthesizing to the image signal synthesizing circuit 10 by the image signal synthesizing signal 27, and the image signal synthesizing circuit 10 receiving the instruction creates the image signal 30 by superposing the image signal 24 and the image signal 25. Output to the recording unit 11.

The recording unit 11 prints out the image signal 30 according to the recording control signal 29 from the control unit 6.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since the common format for communication is stored in advance on the receiving side and these are combined at the time of reception, only the necessary parts need to be transmitted on the transmitting side, so the communication speed can be increased and the communication format Also, there is no restriction on the communication time, and it is possible to freely select, and there is no restriction on the device on the transmission side because the instruction of image signal synthesis is also performed by the push button signal.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Line switching circuit 2 ... Ringer detection circuit 3 ... Switching circuit 4 ... Push button dial signal detection circuit 5 ... Modem 6 ... Control unit 7 ... Encoding / decoding circuit 8 ... Picture signal memory 9 ... Format memory 10 ... Picture signal synthesis Circuit 11 ... Recording unit 12 ... Reading unit 13 ... Line 14 ... Ringer detection signal 15 ... Line switching signal 16 ... Switching signal 17 ... Number information 18 ... Modem control signal 19 ... Encoding / decoding control signal 20 ... Communication data 21 ... Image signal 22 ... Format memory control signal 23 ... Image signal memory control signal 24 ... Image signal 25 ... Image signal 26 ... Read image signal 27 ... Image signal synthesis signal 28 ... Read control signal 29 ... Recording control signal 30 ... Image signal 31 ... Telephone

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A format memory for storing a common format for communication as an image signal for one page, an image signal read from the format memory, and a reception sent from a partner device. It has an image signal synthesizing circuit for synthesizing image signals, and a detecting means for detecting a communication instruction from the partner device by a push button dial signal that arrives while the device itself is receiving a call. A facsimile apparatus characterized in that a received document successively sent when an instruction to synthesize an image signal is received as a communication instruction and an image signal in a format stored in advance in the format memory is synthesized and recorded. .