User interface for customizing menus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSatoshi Watanabe, Emi Kondo, Tomoaki Takahashi
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus comprises a registration unit which registers a menu item in a menu having a hierarchical structure, and a display control unit which (i) displays a first-type item and a second-type item as options in a specific layer of the menu, (ii) performs control to display a first menu item in a menu in a lower layer below a layer of the first-type item, the first menu item being used to register a menu item in the same menu and to delete a registered menu item, and (iii) displays a second menu item in a menu in a lower layer below a layer of the second-type item, the second menu item being for deleting a registered menu item that is in the menu in the lower layer below the layer of the first-type item.
Claims10
An electronic apparatus comprising:
- a memory and at least one processor which function as:
- a registration unit configured to register a menu item in a menu having a hierarchical structure in accordance with a user operation, the menu being composed of a plurality of items;
- and
- a display control unit configured to
- (i) display a first-type item and a second-type item as options in a specific layer of the menu having the hierarchical structure,
- (ii) perform control to display a first menu item in a first-type menu in a lower layer below a layer of the first-type item, the first menu item being used to register a menu item in the first-type menu using the registration unit, and/or to delete a menu item registered in the first-type menu by the registration unit, and
- (iii) display a second menu item in a second-type menu, wherein the second-type menu is a different menu from the first-type menu, and not displayed based on selecting of a menu item in the first-type menu, in a lower layer below a layer of the second-type item, the second menu item being used for deleting a menu item that is in the first-type menu in the lower layer below the layer of the first-type item and that has been registered by the registration unit.
A control method of an electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a registration step of registering a menu item in a menu having a hierarchical structure in accordance with a user operation, the menu being composed of a plurality of items;
- and
- a display control step of
- (i) displaying a first-type item and a second-type item as options in a specific layer of the menu having the hierarchical structure,
- (ii) performing control to display a first menu item in a first-type menu in a lower layer below the layer of the first-type item, the first menu item being used to register a menu item the first-type menu in the registration step, and/or to delete a menu item registered in the first-type menu in the registration step, and
- (iii) displaying a second menu item in a second-type menu, wherein the second-type menu is a different menu from the first-type menu, and not displayed based on selecting of a menu item in the first-type menu, in a lower layer below the layer of the second-type item, the second menu item being used for deleting a menu item that is in the first-type menu in the lower layer below the layer of the first-type item and that has been registered in the registration step.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as a registration unit and a display control unit of an electronic apparatus, wherein the registration unit is configured to register a menu item in a menu having a hierarchical structure in accordance with a user operation, the menu being composed of a plurality of items, and the display control unit is configured to
- (i) displaying a first-type item and a second-type item as options in a specific layer of the menu having the hierarchical structure,
- (ii) performing control to display a first menu item in a first-type menu in a lower layer below the layer of the first-type item, the first menu item being used to register a menu item in the first-type menu in the registration step, and/or to delete a menu item registered in the first-type menu in the registration step, and
- (iii) displaying a second menu item in a second-type menu, wherein the second-type menu is a different menu from the first-type menu, and not displayed based on selecting of a menu item in the first-type menu, in a lower layer below the layer of the second-type item, the second menu item being used for deleting a menu item that is in the first-type menu in the lower layer below the layer of the first-type item and that has been registered in the registration step.
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