Display apparatus

• US 20050076302A1
• Filed: 09/30/2004
• Published: 04/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Hideaki
• Application Number:
  US10/954,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20050076302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/709
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1601 Constructional details related to the housing of computer displays, e.g. of CRT monitors, of flat displays constructional details related to flat displays integrated in a portable computer, e.g. laptop, handheld computer G06F1/1637; constructional details related to television receivers H04N5/64
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1632 Pen holder integrated in the computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A display apparatus attachable to and removable from a plurality of processing apparatuses used for various purposes, includes a display unit for displaying information, an input unit for inputting information, an input detector for detecting an input at the input unit, a connecting unit connectable with the plurality of processing apparatuses disposed on the exterior of the display apparatus, and a controller for displaying information on how to operate one of the processing apparatuses connected via the connecting unit and for transmitting the information detected by the input detector connected to one of the processing apparatuses via the connecting unit.

Claims

1. A display apparatus attachable to and removable from a plurality of processing apparatuses used for various purposes, comprising:

a display unit for displaying information;

an input unit for inputting information;

an input detector for detecting an input at the input unit;

a connecting unit connectable with the plurality of processing apparatuses disposed on the exterior of the display apparatus; and

a controller for displaying information on how to operate one of the processing apparatuses on the display unit connected via the connecting unit and for transmitting the information detected by the input detector connected to one of the processing apparatuses via the connecting unit.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of processing apparatuses include an imaging device for capturing an object and an output device for printing a predetermined image on a sheet.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a power switching unit for switching between a power source of the display apparatus and a power source of one of the processing apparatuses.

4. An information system comprising:

a display apparatus attachable to and removable from a plurality of processing apparatuses used for various purposes, comprising;

a display unit for displaying information;

an input unit for inputting information;

an input detector for detecting an input at the input unit;

a first connecting unit connectable with the plurality of processing apparatuses disposed on the exterior of the display apparatus; and

a first controller for displaying information on how to operate one of the processing apparatuses connected via the connecting unit and for transmitting the information detected by the input detector connected to one of the processing apparatuses via the connecting unit;

wherein said one of the processing apparatuses comprises a storage unit for storing the information on how to operate said one of the processing apparatuses;

a second connecting unit connectable with the display unit; and

a second controller for transmitting the information on how to operate said one of the processing apparatuses stored on the storage unit to the display apparatus via the second connecting unit based on information inputted via the second connecting unit and detected at the input detector.

5. The information system according to claim 4, wherein the second controller controls the display unit to display steps of an operation one the display unit before a user operates said one of the processing apparatuses.

6. The information system according to claim 4, wherein the second controller controls the display unit to operate on power supplied by a power source of the display apparatus when the power supplied by the power source of said one of the processing apparatuses becomes less than a predetermined level.