US 6,603,937 B2 · Image forming apparatus

Image forming apparatus

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsSohichi Yoshimura, Hiroki Eto, Kouichi Eto, Michiyuki Suzuki, Takashi Ide, Koji Tsukamoto, Kenji Tani, Hirohito Morioka, Kimiko Watanabe, Kazuya Masuda, Yoshinori Nakahira, Masaaki Kawakami, Takashi Sugitoh, Yoshikazu Kondoh, Mariko Arai, Takahiro Kawakami, Toshinori Tsujii

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Abstract

An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a complex image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the complex image forming apparatus is changed.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An image forming apparatus comprising:

a display panel for displaying a working condition and operation condition of the image forming apparatus;
a temperature setting requiring portion having a heat source, the portion requiring temperature setting;
a temperature detecting means disposed in the temperature setting requiring portion;
and
a display condition control portion for providing, based on a temperature detected by the temperature detecting means, notification of normality and abnormality of the temperature by changing a display condition of the display panel.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

09/908,325Filed 17 Jul 2001

Priority

JP P2000-21780318 Jul 2000

Published

US 2002/0159786 A131 Oct 2002

Granted

5 Aug 2003

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Classification14 codes

H04N 1/00405
User-machine interface; Control console: output means
G03G 15/502
User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console: relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
G03G 15/5087
Remote control machines, e.g. by a host: for receiving image data
H04N 1/0001
Relating to particular apparatus or devices: transmission systems or arrangements