Composite facsimile apparatus

• US 4,622,592 A
• Filed: 04/27/1984
• Issued: 11/11/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Kiyoshi, Maeda, Hisashi, Ikehata, Norimitsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Groody, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Coles, Edward L.
• Application Number:
  US06/604,515
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: 358/256, 358/257, 358/280, 179/90 AD, 179/90 BD
• US Class Current: 358/440
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0036 Alphanumeric symbols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32042 with reading of job-marks on a page
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32064 Multi-address calling

Abstract

A dial information character code which designates an address of a remote facsimile apparatus is included in an input character code and the input code or a picture signal corresponding thereto is sent to an addressed remote facsimile apparatus corresponding to the dial information character code.

Claims

1. In a composite facsimile apparatus connected to a data terminal unit processing so as to transmit and receive either one of a character code and a picture signal through a transmission line, the improvement comprising:

means for detecting from a plurality of character codes representing a message sent from said data terminal unit, a predetermined designation character code that designates a dial information character code representing dial information;

dial information output means, responding to said detecting means, for forming said dial information character code from said predetermined designation character code and for forming and outputting corresponding dial information based on said dial information character code;

dial signal output means for outputting a dial signal in response to said dial information; and

transmission control means for transmitting either one of the character code and picture code from said data terminal unit to a remote facsimile apparatus corresponding to said dial signal.

2. The composite facsimile apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said dial information output means comprises

means for judging whether said dial information character code corresponds to one of a plurality of stored abbreviated type dial numbers or to a direct type dial number,

memory means, for storing said plurality of abbreviated type dial numbers and corresponding direct type dial numbers, and

control means for forming, from said memory table, said dial information to be outputted corresponding to one of said direct type dial number in turn corresponding to said dial information character code.

3. The composite facsimile apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said control means comprises

means for judging whether said outputted dial information corresponds to the same remote facsimile apparatus to which a telegram was most recently transmitted, and means for preventing the output of said dial information when said dial information is for said same remote facsimile apparatus and for permitting the output of said dial information when said dial information is not for said same remote apparatus.

4. The composite type facsimile apparatus according to claim 2 wherein said control means includes means for sequentially outputting dial information for each said direct type dial number corresponding to said dial information character codes in said telegram.

5. The composite facsimile apparatus according to claim 1

wherein said dial information output means comprises means for outputting only said dial information for said remote facsimile apparatus corresponding to said dial signal, and

wherein said transmission control means includes means for transmitting a character code exclusive of dial information character code corresponding to dial information outputted from said dial information outputting means.

6. The composite facsimile apparatus according to claim 1

wherein said dial information output means comprises means for removing from a character code all dial information character codes other than said dial information code corresponding to said remote facsimile apparatus, and

wherein said transmission control means comprises means for transmitting a character code exclusive of dial information character codes other than said dial information character code corresponding to said remote facsimile apparatus corresponding in turn to said data signal.

7. The composite facsimile apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said tranmission control means comprises means for transmitting to said remote facsimile apparatus corresponding to said data signal a character code accompanied by a predetermined mark.