Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorEarl John ABAQUITA
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Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, a storage unit contains, by each of a plurality of languages that are respectively associated with each direction of slide operations, a character string. A display controller causes a display unit to display, on a screen, an instruction-receiving image to be touched through a touch panel. When a slide operation is performed on a non-operational region where the instruction-receiving image is not located, the character string of the language associated with the direction of the slide operation is retrieved from the storage unit, and a selected-language window is generated by substituting the character string displayed on the screen of the display unit with the character string that has been retrieved, and displayed only for a predetermined period of time.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a display unit;
- a touch panel provided in the display unit;
- a storage unit containing, by each of a plurality of languages respectively associated with each direction of slide operations that are performed on the touch panel and are different from each other, a character or character string to be displayed on the display unit;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- cause the display unit to display, on a screen, an instruction-receiving image to be touched through the touch panel;
- detect, when a slide operation is performed on a non-operational region where the instruction-receiving image is not located, a direction of the slide operation, and retrieve the character or character string of the language associated with the detected direction of the slide operation, from the storage unit;
- and
- cause the display unit to display, for a predetermined period of time, a selected-language window formed by substituting the character or character string displayed on the screen of the display unit, with the character or character string retrieved from the storage unit,
- wherein the direction of the slide operation is one of upward, downward, rightward, and leftward directions, and
- when a touch operation on the non-operational region is performed for equal to or longer than a predetermined operation time and the slide operation is successively performed from the touched position, the controller detects the direction of the slide operation from one of the upward, downward, rightward, and leftward directions, retrieves the character or character string of the language associated with the detected direction from the storage unit, and applies the retrieved character or character string of the language to the substituting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.