Image processing apparatus with an image area and a button for transmission of the image
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShinsaku Tohki, Takaya Nakatani
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Abstract
On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, pieces of information are displayed divided into five areas, that is, a system area, a function selecting area, a preview area, an action panel area and a task trigger area, of which arrangement is kept unchanged even when operational modes are switched. With such an arrangement, the same or similar pieces of information are displayed on an area arranged at the same position even in different operational modes.
Claims15
1-14. (canceled)
An image processing apparatus operated in an transmission mode selected by a user from a plurality of transmission modes, comprising:
- a display device;
- wherein
- said display device includes
- a display unit displaying information corresponding to said selected transmission mode to the user, and
- a display control unit dividing said display unit to a plurality of areas, and displaying information while maintaining arrangement of divided areas even when said selected transmission mode is changed;
- said display control unit displays same or similar information in an area arranged at the same position in each transmission mode;
- in a first area among the plurality of areas, an image to be transmitted by said image processing apparatus is displayed as a preview image before transmission;
- in a third area among the plurality of areas, a button instructing said image processing apparatus to execute transmission when said button is pressed is displayed;
- and
- said third area is displayed close to said first area.
A method of displaying information on a display device provided on an image processing apparatus operated in an transmission mode selected by a user from a plurality of transmission modes, said method comprising the steps of:
- displaying, on a display unit of said display device, information corresponding to said selected transmission mode;
- dividing said display unit to a plurality of areas, and displaying information while maintaining arrangement of divided areas even when said selected transmission mode is changed;
- displaying same or similar information in an area arranged at the same position in each transmission mode;
- displaying, in a first area among the plurality of areas, an image to be transmitted by said image processing apparatus as a preview image before transmission;
- and
- displaying, in a third area among the plurality of areas, a button instructing said image processing apparatus to execute transmission when said button is pressed;
- wherein said third area is displayed close to said first area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.