JP3543644B2 - Communication terminal device with e-mail function - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a communication terminal device such as a facsimile device having a function of transmitting image data of a document using a telephone line or by e-mail.
[0002]
[Prior art]
2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a computer communication network that connects a local computer communication network with a communication line and distributes e-mail via a networked Internet or the like has become widespread. The computer communication network has an excellent error correction function, and can communicate with computers not only in Japan but also abroad simply by paying the communication cost to the nearest provider (connection company to the computer communication network).
[0003]
Since the communication procedure and communication method of the conventional G3 facsimile apparatus are different from those of the computer communication network, it cannot be directly connected to the computer communication network. However, even image data such as a transmission original can be transmitted to a computer communication network by converting the image data into an electronic mail format.
[0004]
Such a facsimile apparatus transmits image data of a document by a facsimile communication procedure using a telephone line or a computer communication network such as the Internet, depending on whether the input destination is a telephone number or a mail address. The image data of the original is transmitted by the procedure of the e-mail communication via. Therefore, in a transmission reservation such as a broadcast transmission designating a plurality of destinations, the user can specify the telephone number and the mail address in a mixed manner.
[0005]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
By the way, when confirming the input data of the transmission reservation in which the telephone number and the mail address are mixed, if the telephone number and the mail address are displayed in a mixed state in the input order of the user, for example, the telephone number and the mail address are displayed. Due to the difference in the number of digits and the character type, it cannot be confirmed smoothly.
[0006]
Also, if an e-mail is not sent to the destination reserved for transmission due to a failure of the provider, the reserved e-mail address remains in the memory and the reservation must be canceled. The operation of canceling was complicated since the user had to erase it.
If the phone number or e-mail address of the destination terminal is changed, the operation is complicated because the phone number or e-mail address to be deleted must be selected from the registered telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. there were.
[0007]
Furthermore, when a destination is specified by selecting a one-touch dial key, abbreviated dial key, or the like in which a telephone number, a mail address, etc. are registered in advance, only the character or number of the key is displayed as the destination. If the destination is a telephone number or an e-mail address, for example, when it is desired to cancel only the e-mail address due to a failure of a provider or the like, it is not possible to determine whether the destination is a telephone number or an e-mail address.
[0008]
The present invention has been made in order to solve such a problem, and it is intended that a plurality of destinations reserved for broadcasting by mixing a telephone number and an e-mail address are telephone numbers. The address is displayed with information indicating whether it is an address, and the destination is a telephone number with information indicating that it is a telephone number, or a mail address with information indicating that it is a mail address. By enabling batch erasure, it is easy to confirm input data when a transmission reservation is made by mixing a phone number and an e-mail address, it is easy to cancel the reservation, and the destination is a telephone number. It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication terminal device with an e-mail function capable of determining whether the terminal is a mail address or a mail address.
[0009]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
E-mail function-equipped communication terminal apparatus of the first invention is capable of data transmission by the data transmission and e-mail via the telephone line, the broadcast transmission reservation to a plurality of destinations telephone number and the mail address are mixed A first buffer memory for temporarily storing a telephone number of a destination to which data is to be transmitted via a telephone line among a plurality of destinations reserved for broadcast transmission; A second buffer memory for temporarily storing a mail address of a destination to which data is to be transmitted by e-mail among the plurality of destinations; and a telephone number destination identification symbol for the telephone number temporarily stored in the first buffer memory. this and means for displaying on the same screen 2 of the temporarily stored email address in the buffer memory an email address destination identification code added respectively The features.
[0010]
In the communication terminal device with an e-mail function of the first invention, when a broadcast transmission to a plurality of destinations in which a telephone number and an e-mail address are mixed is reserved, the plurality of pre-input destinations are changed to the first telephone number . The mail address is temporarily stored in the buffer memory, and the mail address is temporarily stored in the second buffer memory. The telephone number temporarily stored in the first buffer memory is provided with a telephone number destination identification code, and the mail address temporarily stored in the second buffer memory is provided with a mail address destination identification code. Display on the same screen of the display device.
This makes it easy to determine whether each of the plurality of destinations is a telephone number (facsimile number) or a mail address.
[0011]
A communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the first aspect, further includes a telephone number temporarily stored in the first buffer memory and / or a mail temporarily stored in the second buffer memory. It is characterized by further comprising means for collectively erasing addresses from the respective buffer memories .
[0012]
The communication terminal device with the e-mail function of the second invention is temporarily stored in the corresponding buffer memory by designating either the destination identification symbol for the telephone number or the destination identification symbol for the mail address when canceling the reservation . Clear phone numbers or email addresses at once .
This simplifies the operation of canceling a reservation.
[0015]
BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a communication terminal device with an e-mail function of the present invention. In the embodiment of the present invention, the Internet is used as a computer communication network.
The main control unit 1 not only controls the hardware units of the facsimile apparatus through the bus, but also, based on the software stored in the ROM 6, when the destination of the transmission reservation is a telephone number, the software of the facsimile communication procedure, If the destination is an e-mail address, encoding / decoding for encoding / decoding the image data of the original using an encoding method such as MH, MR, MMR, image (TIFF) conversion, binary / text conversion, e-mail Execute software such as communication procedures including editing, modem switching, control of RS232C by AT command, and the like.
[0016]
The main control unit 1 classifies and stores a plurality of destinations in a communication reservation to a plurality of destinations in which a telephone number and a mail address are mixed into a telephone number and a mail address in a procedure described later. Execute software that displays the recipients in a group by telephone number and mail address.
In a procedure described later, the main control unit 1 uses a software program that collectively deletes the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses displayed in groups when canceling a reservation. Executes software for adding and displaying information such as a command code indicating a number or an e-mail address to a destination of each group.
[0017]
In image conversion, G3 format image data is converted to TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), a general image format used in computers, at the time of transmission, and TIFF is converted to G3 format image data at the time of reception. . TIFF is published by Adobe Systems, and defines various classes that handle not only black and white binary but also black and white multi-valued and full color. One of them, CLASS F, defines G3 format image data, which is image data of a manuscript in which image data of the manuscript is encoded by an encoding method such as MH, MR, or MMR. Therefore, the image data can be converted into TIFF by adding TIFF header information of CLASS F to the head of the G3 format image data.
[0018]
In binary / text conversion, binary data is converted into text data at the time of transmission, and text data is converted into binary data at the time of reception. There are computers on the Internet that cannot handle binary data e-mail. When transmitting binary data such as TIFF image data, it is first converted to text data so that the e-mail reaches the destination. Text data handled on the Internet is specified as a 7-bit code in RFC (Request For Comments) 822, a document issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
[0019]
Therefore, conversion is performed using the base64 of MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). According to this, 6-bit binary data is replaced with one of 64 characters (uppercase and lowercase alphabets, numbers, +, /) and can be converted to text data. MIME is specified in RFC1521.
[0020]
In mail editing, at the time of transmission, the mail header information is added to the TIFF image data converted to text data to edit it into e-mail format, and at the time of reception, the mail header information is removed from the e-mail format data and converted to text data Only the extracted TIFF image data is extracted. It is stipulated that predetermined header information is added to e-mails on the Internet as management information of e-mails. Therefore, at the time of transmission, "From: (user's Internet e-mail address ) ”,“ To: (Internet e-mail address of the other party) ”,“ Subject: (title) ”, etc.
[0021]
The reading unit 2 reads an original by using a CCD or the like and outputs image data of a binary original. The recording unit 3 includes a printer of an electrophotographic system or the like, and records image data of a document received from another G3 facsimile apparatus or the Internet.
The display unit 4 includes a liquid crystal display or the like, and displays an operation state of the facsimile apparatus and image data of a document. The display unit 4 divides input data of a plurality of destinations of the transmission reservation to which information such as a command code indicating a telephone number or a mail address is added into a group of a telephone number and a mail address. indicate. In addition, the liquid crystal display of the display unit 4 is provided with an individual erase button for canceling the displayed reservation content for each telephone number or mail address, and a collective erase button for canceling all of the displayed contents in units of command codes. (See FIG. 4).
[0022]
The operation unit 5 includes various function keys such as ten keys, speed dial keys, one-touch dial keys, and broadcast transmission necessary for operating the facsimile machine. The user specifies the destination by directly entering the telephone number with the numeric keypad, switching the one-touch dial key to the character input mode and directly entering the mail address, and selecting the one-touch dial key and speed dial key. can do.
[0023]
The ROM 6 stores software necessary for the operation of the facsimile machine. The RAM 7 is composed of an SRAM, a flash memory, or the like, and stores temporary data generated when executing software. The RAM 7 has a facsimile destination registration buffer and a mail address destination registration buffer for storing destination data input in the transmission reservation into telephone numbers and mail addresses, respectively. Further, the RAM 7 is provided with a table for storing telephone numbers and mail addresses registered in advance in the speed dial key and the one-touch dial key. The image memory 8 is composed of a DRAM or the like, and stores image data of a document.
[0024]
The modem 9 has a function of performing facsimile communication of image data of a document read by the reading unit 2 and a function of performing data communication of communicating image data of a document converted into e-mail via the Internet, for example.
The modem 9 is connected to an NCU 11 for closing and opening an analog line.
[0025]
Next, the operation of the communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to the present invention at the time of inputting a destination will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
The input destination is searched (step S2-1), and it is determined whether the input destination is a mail address (step S2-2). Since it is a rule to insert a “+” code at the beginning of the e-mail address in order to identify the e-mail address, whether the input destination is an e-mail address is determined by the “+” code at the beginning. It is determined based on whether or not there is. If the input destination is a mail address, it is registered in the mail address destination registration buffer (step S2-3). If the input destination is not a mail address, it is registered in the facsimile destination registration buffer (step S2-4).
The above steps S2-1 to S2-4 are repeated until the processing for all the inputted destinations is completed (step S2-5).
[0026]
Next, the operation of the communication terminal device with an e-mail function of the present invention at the time of confirming / erasing the communication reservation will be described based on the flowchart of FIG. 3 and the screen display example of FIG.
It is determined whether the destination of the communication reservation is registered in the facsimile destination registration buffer (step S3-1). If the destination is registered, a command code ( For example, since “Cnn:”, where “nn” can register a plurality of commands, a facsimile destination identification code such as “serial number added for identification” is added and displayed as a group of telephone numbers. (Step S3-2).
It is determined whether batch deletion of the command code group indicated by the cursor or individual deletion of the telephone number at the position indicated by the cursor has been instructed (step S3-3) .If neither instruction has been issued, step S3 is performed. Return to -1. If batch deletion is instructed, the registration data of the command code indicated by the cursor is batch-erased from the facsimile destination reservation (step S3-4). On the other hand, when the individual deletion is instructed, the telephone number at the position indicated by the cursor is deleted from the facsimile destination reservation (step S3-4).
[0027]
Next, it is determined whether or not the destination of the communication reservation is registered in the destination register for the mail address (step S3-5). If the destination is registered, as shown in FIG. And a mail address destination identification symbol such as a command code (for example, “Tnn:”, where “nn” is a serial number added for identification because a plurality of commands can be registered). (Step S3-6).
It is determined whether batch deletion of the command code group indicated by the cursor or individual deletion of the e-mail address at the position indicated by the cursor has been instructed (step S3-7), and if neither instruction has been issued, step S3 is performed. Return to -5. When batch deletion is instructed, the registration data of the command code indicated by the cursor is batch deleted from the reservation of the destination of the mail address (step S3-8). On the other hand, when the individual deletion is instructed, the mail address at the position indicated by the cursor is deleted from the reservation of the destination of the mail address (step S3-8).
[0028]
【The invention's effect】
In the communication terminal device with an e-mail function of the first invention, when a broadcast transmission to a plurality of destinations in which a telephone number and a mail address are mixed is reserved, the plurality of pre-input destinations are the first telephone number . The mail address is temporarily stored in the buffer memory, and the mail address is temporarily stored in the second buffer memory. The telephone number temporarily stored in the first buffer memory is provided with a telephone number destination identification code, and the mail address temporarily stored in the second buffer memory is provided with a mail address destination identification code. And displayed on the same screen of the display device. Therefore, even if a plurality of destinations are displayed on the same screen, it is possible to easily determine whether each is a telephone number (facsimile number) or a mail address .
[0029]
In the communication terminal device with the e-mail function of the second invention, at the time of canceling the reservation, by specifying either the destination identification symbol for the telephone number or the destination identification symbol for the mail address , the communication terminal device is temporarily stored in the corresponding buffer memory. Since the telephone number or the e-mail address is erased collectively , an excellent effect that the operation of canceling the reservation is easy is achieved.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a communication terminal device with an e-mail function of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to the present invention when a destination is input.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an operation of the communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to the present invention when confirming / erasing a communication reservation.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen display at the time of confirming / erasing a communication reservation in the communication terminal device with an e-mail function of the present invention.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 main control unit 2 reading unit 3 recording unit 4 display unit 5 operation unit 6 ROM
7 RAM
8 Image memory 9 Modem
11 NCU

Claims (2)

In a communication terminal device capable of transmitting data via a telephone line and transmitting data by e-mail, and having a function of reserving broadcast transmission to a plurality of destinations in which telephone numbers and mail addresses are mixed,
A first buffer memory for temporarily storing a telephone number of a destination to which data is transmitted via a telephone line among a plurality of destinations reserved for broadcast transmission;
A second buffer memory for temporarily storing a mail address of a destination to which data is transmitted by e-mail among a plurality of destinations reserved for broadcast transmission;
The telephone number temporarily stored in the first buffer memory is added with a telephone number destination identification code, and the mail address temporarily stored in the second buffer memory is added with a mail address destination identification code, and displayed on the same screen . And a communication terminal device with an e-mail function. A telephone number temporarily stored in the first buffer memory and / or a mail address temporarily stored in the second buffer memory are collectively deleted from the respective buffer memories. The communication terminal device with an e-mail function according to claim 1 .

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