# US 2020/0064764 A1 · Image forming apparatus that displays job list > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2020/0064764 A1 - Document ID: US20200064764A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/346,261 - Filed: 2017-01-31 - Published: 2020-02-27 - Earliest claimed: 2017-01-31 - Assignees: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Applicants: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. - Inventors: Jobern LORETIZO; Carlo Nino BITOON; Felar Helen SABAGKIT; Beverlyn LASCUNA; Evan Wilson BENITEZ; Katrina Star CASERA; Kris Antonette LAPIZ; Jay BALUNAN; Miguel Inaki William PADAY V; Junaico SEGISMAR; Nolan IWAY; Crescencio SABAL - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200064764A1 ## CPC - G03G 15/5016: {User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console} - G03G 15/502: {relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens} - H04N 1/00331: {with an apparatus performing optical character recognition (character recognition G06V30/10)} - H04N 1/00411: {the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen} - H04N 1/4413: {involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN} - H04N 1/444: {to a particular document or image or part thereof} - H04N 1/448: {Rendering the image unintelligible, e.g. scrambling} - G03G 2215/00299: Confidential, e.g. secret documents - G06F 3/04883: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text - H04N 2201/0094: Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception - G03G: ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract While jobs with confidentiality are in principle kept from showing on a job list, display of the jobs with confidentiality is enabled with a simple operation. In an image forming apparatus, a display control section allows a display section to display a job list showing a plurality of executed jobs, wherein among the jobs, one job containing a predetermined word or character string representing confidentiality is excluded from the job list. When a predetermined keyword is input through a touch panel, the display control section allows the display section to display a confidential job containing the keyword. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An image forming apparatus comprising: a display section; an operating section operable by a user; a job list generating section that generates a job list showing a plurality of executed jobs; a determination section that, when a predetermined word or character string representing confidentiality is contained in one of the jobs, determines the job to be confidential; and a display control section that allows the display section to display the job list generated by the job list generating section but, in presence of the job determined to be confidential by the determination section, allows the display section to display the jobs other than the job determined to be confidential on a display screen by excluding the job determined to be confidential from the job list, wherein when a keyword is input by an operation of the operating section and the input keyword is contained in the job determined to be confidential, the display control section allows the display section to display the job determined to be confidential. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a predetermined operation is made on the operating section while the display control section allows the display section to display the jobs other than the job determined to be confidential on the display screen by excluding the job determined to be confidential from the job list, the display control section changes a display state of the job list and allows display of the changed job list, and the image forming apparatus further comprises a control section that, when the display state is changed by the display control section, makes the operating section ready to accept handwriting input of the keyword. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The image forming apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control section changes the display state by blurring an image of the job list. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The image forming apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the operating section is a touch panel placed on the screen of the display section, and when a specified touch gesture is made as the predetermined operation through the touch panel, the display control section changes the display state. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The image forming apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the specified touch gesture is a hold-down or a double tap on the touch panel. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination section acquires the word or character string representing confidentiality from a name of the job. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a character recognition section that analyzes an image contained in the job to recognize characters or character strings contained in the image, wherein the determination section acquires the word or character string representing confidentiality from among the characters or character strings recognized by the character recognition section. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storage section in which the plurality of jobs is stored, each job being associated with a user name, wherein when the user name is input as the keyword by an operation of the operating section, the display control section allows the display section to display, among the plurality of jobs stored in the storage section, the job associated with the input user name and representing confidentiality, with the job included on the job list.