INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20090172585A1
• Filed: 11/20/2008
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Sato, Masaaki
• Application Number:
  US12/274,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20090172585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00384 Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads electromechanical details of key input means in general H01H13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00421 using drop-down menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00432 using tabs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• 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 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3276 of a customised additional information profile, e.g. a profile specific to a user ID

Abstract

A method for controlling an information processing apparatus includes displaying an input screen including a plurality of items in which text data can be input; displaying a keyboard for inputting text data in one input item of the plurality of items so as to be superimposed on the input screen; displaying the name of the input item on the displayed keyboard; and performing control, in a case where an instruction to change the input item to a different item is received, with the keyboard superimposed on the display unit by the keyboard display unit, so as to change the input item to the different item, with the keyboard kept displayed on the display unit, and cause the display unit to display the name of the different item.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a processor configured to cause;

a display unit to display an input screen including a plurality of items in which text data can be input, to display a keyboard for inputting text data in one input item of the plurality of items so as to be superimposed on the input screen displayed by the display unit, and to display a name of the input item on the keyboard; and

a control unit configured to perform control, in a case where an instruction to change the object input item to a different item is received, with the keyboard superimposed on the display unit, so as to change the input item to the different item, with the keyboard kept displayed on the display unit, and cause the display unit to display the name of the different item.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage unit configured to store text data that is input to the input item by a user in association with the input item in response to reception of an instruction to change the input item of the text data to a different item.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instruction to change the input item to the different item is given through the keyboard.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the instruction to change the input item to the different item includes an instruction to change the input item to a previous item and an instruction to change the input item to a next item.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor further causes:

the display unit to display a key for giving an instruction to change the input item to a previous item and a key for giving an instruction to change the input item to a next item on the keyboard,

wherein the display unit

does not display an instruction to change the input item of the text data to a previous item in a case where the previous item of the input item is not present, and

does not display an instruction to change the input item of the text data to a next item in a case where the next item of the input item is not present.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit is configured to change, in a case where the instruction to change the input item to the different item is received, the input item to, among the plurality of items, a different item set to be input by a user.

7. A method for controlling an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying, on a display unit, an input screen including a plurality of items in which text data can be input;

displaying, on the display unit, a keyboard for inputting text data in one input item of the plurality of items so as to be superimposed on the input screen;

displaying, on the display unit, a name of the input item on the displayed keyboard; and

performing control, in a case where an instruction to change the input item to a different item is received, with the keyboard superimposed on the display unit by the keyboard display unit, so as to change the input item to the different item, with the keyboard kept displayed on the display unit, and cause the display unit to display the name of the different item.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

storing text data that is input to the input item by a user in association with the input item in response to reception of the instruction to change the input item of the text data to the different item.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the instruction to change the input item to the different item is given through the keyboard.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the instruction to change the input item to the different item includes an instruction to change the input item to a previous item and an instruction to change the input item to a next item.

11. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

displaying, on the display unit, a key for giving an instruction to change the input item to a previous item and a key for giving an instruction to change the input item to a next item on the keyboard,

wherein the display unit

does not display an instruction to change the input item of the text data to a previous item in a case where the previous item of the input item is not present, and

does not display an instruction to change the input item of the text data to a next item in a case where the next item of the input item is not present.

12. The method according to claim 7, wherein, in a case where an instruction to change the input item to a different item is received, the input item is changed to, of the plurality of items, a different item set to be input by a user.

13. A computer-readable recording medium storing a computer-executable program for executing a method for controlling an information processing apparatus, the computer-executable program comprising:

displaying, on a display unit, an input screen including a plurality of items in which text data can be input;

displaying, on the display unit, a keyboard for inputting text data in one input item of the plurality of items so as to be superimposed on the input screen displayed by the display unit;

displaying, on the display unit, a name of the input item on the displayed keyboard displayed by the keyboard display unit; and

performing control, in a case where an instruction to change the input item to a different item is received, with the keyboard superimposed on the display unit by the keyboard display unit, so as to change the input item to the different item, with the keyboard kept displayed on the display unit, and display the name of the different item on the keyboard.