JPS60203065A - Information display system of facsimile equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display accurately both the external information and the internal information and to reduce the error inputs, by providing two display means, by displaying the external information supplied from an input part to one of two display means together with the internal information produced from the main body of a facsimile equipment displayed to the other display means respectively. CONSTITUTION:The 1st and 2nd character display devices 2 and 3 using the liquid crystal are set at positions adjacent to a key switch SW group 1 on an operation panel. For instance, the group 1 is operated to feed dial numbers. Then these dial numbers are coded by an SW control part 4 and sent to a main control part 8. The part 8 gives an access to a character generating part 5 via a character control part 6 for output of the character information. Then the part 8 gives an indication to a control part 7 for display device to select the device 2, and the dial numbers are displayed to the device 2. The part 8 produces the data on an operation message of a facsimile equipment from the part 5 via the part 6.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to an improvement in an information display method of a facsimile machine.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, many facsimile machines have been used that are equipped with a character display made of, for example, a liquid crystal display and display various information on this display.

However, conventional devices of this type are equipped with only one display, and this display shows external input information such as a dial number manually input by operating a switch, as well as the operating status generated by the device. Internally generated information was displayed in a time-division manner. Therefore, when inputting information, it was easy to confuse externally input information and internally generated information. For example, when a message indicating "sendable", which is internally generated information of a facsimile machine, is displayed on the display, the operator looks at this display and inputs a dial number. When the input of this dial number begins, the display on the display changes to display the dial number, which is the input external input information, and when the input of the dial number is completed, a message indicating that transmission will be performed based on the dial number is displayed. The display will change to "Transmitting". However, if an abnormal operation or line trouble occurs in the receiving Funakushimiri device, even if the operator is performing input operations, the information 1 indicating the occurrence of the trouble above will be displayed, for example, "Error", taking precedence over the input information. Sometimes. When internally generated information that is generated independently of external input information by the operator is displayed, a skilled operator can easily handle the display, but inexperienced operators may be confused by the information input by their own operations and the actual information. may be confused with the internally generated information displayed in
Easy to misunderstand and manipulate.

Particularly in recent years, as facsimile machines have become more multi-functional, the types and number of internally generated information have tended to increase, and conventional devices with only one display are expected to experience an increase in misrecognition and erroneous operations. .

[Purpose of the invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an information display method for a facsimile machine that can clearly display external input information and internally generated information without confusing them, reduce erroneous input, and facilitate smooth input operations. shall be.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides first and second
The apparatus is provided with display means, and one of these display means displays external input information input from the input section, and the other displays internally generated information generated from the main body of the apparatus.

[Embodiments of the invention]

FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of an operation i4 channel to which the information display system of one embodiment of the present invention is applied. First and second characters made of liquid crystal are placed adjacent to key switch group 1. Display units 2°3 are arranged in a vertically aligned manner. Note that the first and second character display devices 2
, 3 are written with the characters "input" and "messeno" representing the type of display, respectively.

On the other hand, FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram showing a display control circuit for the first and second character displays 2, 3. This circuit includes a switch control section 4 that performs input control of the key switch group 1, and a character generation section 5 that generates character information to be displayed on each of the character displays 2 and 3.
, a character control section 6 that controls all operations of the character generation section 5, a display control section 7 that controls display operations of each character display 2.3, and a main control section 8.

The character generation section 5 has character information storage areas for displaying externally input information, internally generated information, and common information, and stores character information by specifying an address in the character control section 6. Occur.

The main control unit 8 controls the display operation of, for example, a microprocessor.

In such a configuration, when a dial number is input by operating the key switch group 1, for example, the dial number is encoded by the switch control section 4 and sent to the main control section 8. Then, the character data of the dial number is output from the main control section 8 to the character control section 6, and as a result, the character generation section 5 is accessed by the character control section 6 and character information is output. Also, at this time, the main control section 8 issues an instruction to the display control section 7 to select the first character display 2, which causes #) the first character display 2 indication input state. becomes.

Therefore, the character information output from the character generation section 5 is input to the first character display 2,
The resulting dialed number is displayed on the first character display 2.

On the other hand, when controlling the display of this dial number, the main control unit 8
outputs the message data of the facsimile machine to the character data 6, for example, character data for displaying a prompt to operate the transmission switch (display of "Ready to send", etc.), and outputs the message data to the display controller 7. An instruction to select the second character display 3 is issued. Then, character information (messeno) corresponding to the above-mentioned -character data is generated from the character generation section 5, and this information is displayed on the second character display 3 as " In other words, the dial number entered by the key switch group 1 and the operation instruction information generated inside the device are displayed on the first and second character display 2, respectively.
, 3 are displayed separately and simultaneously. Similarly,
The external input information input to key switch group 1 is
Internally generated information generated from inside the device is displayed on the second character display 3, respectively.

In this embodiment, the externally input information and the internally generated information are displayed separately on the first and second character displays 2 and 3, respectively, so that the operator cannot confuse the externally inputted information and the internally generated information. Since the external input information is displayed as it is until the next input operation is performed, the information input operation can be performed accurately and smoothly. Furthermore, by displaying externally input information and internally generated information separately, it is possible to input information interactively between the operator and the device, thereby providing a device that is even easier to operate. I can do it.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments.

For example, in the embodiment described above, internally generated information is displayed on the upper character display 3 and externally generated information is displayed on the lower character display 2, but the reverse may be used.

Furthermore, each display unit may be arranged side by side in the horizontal direction.
Further, the size, shape, display color, etc. of each display may be made different. In addition, the types of display means and their display control means can be modified in various ways without departing from the gist of the present invention.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described in detail above, the present invention provides the first and second display means, displays external input information on one of them, and displays internally generated information on the other. It is possible to provide an information display method for a facsimile machine that can clearly display information and internally generated information without confusing them, reduce erroneous inputs, and perform smooth input operations.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the configuration of an operation panel to which an information display method according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied, and FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of a display control circuit to which the same method is applied. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Key switch group, 2... First character display, 3... Second character display, 4... Switch control section, 5... Character generation section, 6... Character control section, 7... Display control section, 8... Main control section. Applicant's representative Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1) Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Claims] first and second display means are provided, external information inputted to the input section is displayed on one of the display means;
An information display method for a facsimile machine, characterized in that internal information issued from the main body of the machine is displayed on the other side.