Information display device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorDai Shigenobu
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Abstract
A display control section 77 causes meta-information (attribute information 73 and function information 75) related to an icon 79 read out at step S14 to be dynamically switching-displayed in a space 81 equivalent to two icons, i.e., a display area of unselected icons, said display area not being required to display thereof any longer, as a result of selecting an icon that fits the intent of a user. Thereby, it becomes possible to display with good visibility the meta-information related to the icon selected by the user, out of a plurality of icons list-displayed on the display screen, while effectively utilizing resources related to the display screen.
Claims7
An information display device, comprising:
- a display section configured to list-display on a display screen images of at least a plurality of icons together related to a data file targeted for information processing, each one icon of the plurality of icons having meta-information associated therewith:
- a meta-information storing section storing respective meta-information associated with the plurality of icons;
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- a selected-information obtaining section obtaining selected information when out of the plurality of icons list-displayed on the display screen, an icon that fits an intent of a user is selected;
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- a display control section reading out the meta-information related to the selected icon based on the selected information obtained in the selected-information obtaining section and a stored content of the meta-information storing section, and in response to said selection of the icon the display control section automatically altering display content to continue to list-display the selected icon in place without list-display of the unselected icons and to display in place of said unselected icons the meta-information related to the read-out selected icon in an area on the display screen where the unselected icons were previously list-displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.