US 8,136,049 B2Granted

Image processing apparatus

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsAtsuko Kunita, Koji Yakushiji

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Abstract

The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which improves processing efficiency by allowing display of a message according to a usage status of a user and also has good operability. The image processing apparatus includes a setting section 9a for setting a display form of a message 13c. The user sets a display form, that is, display or nondisplay, display time, a color of a display pane, a shape of the display and a display position of the message 13c, to be more precise, from a setting screen capable of setting each kind of message 13c. In the case where “Nondisplay” is selected in selecting display or nondisplay of the message 13c, no setting thereafter is performed. In the case where “Display” is selected, the setting is performed as to all the items, such as the display time, color of the display pane, shape of the display and display position.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An image processing apparatus comprising:

an operation panel including a display screen;
a display section for displaying a main screen and a sub screen on the display screen, the sub screen configured to display multiple kinds of messages;
and
a setting section capable of setting a different display form according to each kind of the sub screen,
wherein the display section displays the sub screen in the display form set by the setting section,
in a mode of setting the display form of a message, the setting section generates a setting screen having a plurality of options enabling a user to select the display form of the message including display or nondisplay, and the setting section determines whether to permit or inhibit the message to be set to nondisplay according to the kind of message, and
in a case that the message is inhibited to be set to nondisplay, the message is displayed according to the selected display form even if the message is set to nondisplay.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/865,936Filed 2 Oct 2007
Priority: JP 2006-2722563 Oct 2006
Published: US 2008/0079659 A13 Apr 2008
Granted: 13 Mar 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04N 1/00408
Output means: display of information to the user, e.g. menus
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 15/5079
Remote control machines, e.g. by a host: for maintenance
H04N 1/00411
Display of information to the user, e.g. menus: the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen