Image Forming Apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshihiro Shoji, Mikiya Okada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data and a control unit. The control unit includes a display image generator, a display panel and a control unit-side controller for giving display guidance on the input status of image data from the document reader, on the display panel. The control unit-side controller has the function that, when image data is input from the document reader, displays display images generated by the display image generator, sequentially in the order of input and displaying the latest display image preferentially in the preview region during input of image data.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an input unit receiving input of image data;
- a storing unit storing the image data input to the input unit and,
- an image display control device,
- the image display control device, including:
- a display image generator generating a display image based on the image data stored in the storing unit;
- a display portion having a preview region for displaying the display image generated by the display image generator;
- and,
- a display controller for giving guidance on the input status of the image data input to the input unit, on the display portion, characterized in that
- when the image data is input to the input unit, the display controller provides the function of sequentially displaying the display images generated by the display image generator in the input order and displaying the latest display image among the display images based on the image data, preferentially in the preview region, during input of the image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.