Operation guidance display apparatus of image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuji Okamoto, Yoshikado Yamada, Kaoru Ishikura
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Abstract
An operation guidance display apparatus displays dynamic images of operations which are necessary for a display section provided to an image forming apparatus in the case where jam, out of toner, etc. occur in sheet passing sections of the image forming apparatus, and an operation by an operator is required. As a result, even if the operator first performs the necessary operations or it is difficult for the operator to understand the operations, the operator can safely and securely performs the operations. Therefore, operability of the image forming apparatus can be improved by providing the apparatus of the present invention to the image forming apparatus.
Claims36
An operation guidance display apparatus of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- state detecting means for detecting that said image forming apparatus requires a prescribed operation by an operator;
- dynamic image data storing means for storing dynamic image data which show a sequence of a procedure for the prescribed operation to be detected by said state detecting means;
- display means for displaying operation guidance;
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- display control means for when said state detecting means detects that said image forming apparatus requires the prescribed operation, displaying the dynamic image data of necessary operation on said display means as dynamic images.
An operation guidance display apparatus of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- jam detecting means for detecting jam in a plurality of sheet passing sections;
- operation existence/non-existence detecting means for detecting whether each operation in a series of a procedure for removing jam in each sheet passing section has been performed or not;
- dynamic image data storing means for storing dynamic image data which show a series of the procedure for removing jam in each sheet passing section;
- display means for displaying the procedure for removing jam;
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- display control means for when said jam detecting means detects jam, successively switching dynamic images which show each operation in a series of the procedure for removing jam in the sheet passing sections where said jam detecting means detects remaining of sheets to a dynamic image showing a next operation every time said operation existence/non-existence detecting means detects a performance of each operation so as to display the dynamic images on said display means based upon the dynamic image data stored in said dynamic image data storing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.