Image forming apparatus

• US 20060101344A1
• Filed: 11/08/2005
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Tabata, Fujio
• Application Number:
  US11/269,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20060101344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/761
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00472 using a pop-up window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00477 Indicating status, e.g. of a job for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N2201/3219

Abstract

An image forming apparatus, which display units the information relating to the job of the selected function on a first display screen of a display unit 4 when one of different functions is selected; changes over the display unit 4 to a second display screen including a first display area and a second display area when the job of another function that is not selected is inputted; and display units the information relating to the job of the selected function on the first display area and the information relating to the inputted job of the function not selected on the second display area.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus capable of processing jobs of different functions, comprising:

a display unit that is switchable between a first screen having only one display area and a second screen having a first display area and a second display area; and

a control unit that switches the display unit, when one of the different functions is executed, to the first screen so as to display a piece of information relating to a job of the selected function, and when a job of a function that is not selected is inputted, switches the display unit to the second screen so as to display the piece of information relating to the job of the selected function on the first display area, and another piece of information relating to the inputted job of the not-selected function on the second display area.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit switches the display unit to the second screen so as to display pieces of information relating to jobs of different functions respectively on the first display area and the second display area, and when the job of the not-selected function is inputted, the piece of information displayed on the second display area is changed over to a piece of information relating to the inputted job.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the control unit display units, every time the job of the not-selected function is inputted, the inputted job of the not-selected function on the second display area.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

job designation unit that designates one of jobs that are displayed on the second display area;

wherein the control unit, in response to the designation of the job from the job designation unit, stops the processing of the job that is currently being executed and performs interruption processing of the designated job.