COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING DRIVER PROGRAM STORED

• US 20100017731A1
• Filed: 04/02/2009
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Taira, Yoshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/417,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20100017731A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A computer-readable recording medium having a driver program stored may cause a computer to function as an icon display processor, an operation detector, a setting changing processor and/or an icon image switching processor. The operation detector may be configured to detect an operation performed on the icon displayed on the display device. The setting changing processor may be configured, when an operation has been detected by the operation detector, to change a setting value of a setting associated with the icon on which the operation has been performed to a different setting value. The icon display processor and/or icon image switching processor may be configured, according to the change in the setting value by the setting changing processor, to switch an icon image of the icon displayed on the display device from an icon image corresponding to a first setting value to a second setting value.

Claims

1. A computer-readable recording medium having a driver program stored, the driver program causing a computer to function as:

an icon display processor configured to display an icon on a display device;

an operation detector configured to detect an operation performed on the icon displayed on the display device;

a setting changing processor configured to change a content of a setting from a first setting value associated with the one or more icons upon which the operation has been performed to a second setting value; and

wherein the icon display processor is configured to switch a first icon image of an icon to a second icon image on the display device according to the change in the setting from the first setting value to the second setting value executed by the setting changing processor.

2. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the setting further comprises a plurality of setting values, and wherein every time an operation performed on the icon is detected, the setting changing processor is configured to change the content of the setting in accordance with a predetermined sequence, and after reaching a last setting value in the predetermined sequence, the content of the setting is returned to the first setting value in the predetermined sequence.

3. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the icon display processor is configured to read the setting stored on data storage device, and wherein the icon display processor is configured to display the icon using the icon image corresponding to the content of the setting on the display device.

4. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, further comprising a second setting comprising a plurality of setting values.

5. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the icon display processor displays the plurality of icons associated with the plurality of settings for a printing function on the display device.

6. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the display device comprises a display device of a terminal apparatus comprising the computer.

7. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the driver program further causes the computer to function as:

a controller configured to control one or more peripheral apparatus in accordance with the content of the settings,

wherein the icon display processor displays a plurality of icons associated with a plurality of settings regarding a function of the peripheral apparatus.

8. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 7, wherein the function of the peripheral apparatus comprises a printing function, an image reading function, and/or a facsimile transmission/reception function.

9. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the setting comprises a paper orientation setting, wherein the first setting value comprises “

portrait” and

wherein the second setting value comprises “

landscape”

.

10. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the setting comprises a copy unit printing setting, wherein the first setting value comprises “

sort” and

wherein the second setting value comprises “

collate”

.

11. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the setting comprises a multiple pages grouping per paper setting, wherein the first setting value comprises “

1-up”

, wherein the second setting value comprises “

2-up” and

further comprising a third setting value comprising “

4-up”

.

12. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the setting comprises a color mode setting, wherein the first setting value comprises “

color” and

wherein the second setting value comprises “

monochrome”

.

13. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the operation detected by the operation detector comprises at least one of a click, a double click, at least one keystroke, at least one mouse movement, at least one finger movement, at least one sound, or at least one movement of light.

14. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 1, wherein the operation performed on the icon displayed on the display device comprises a click operation.

15. The computer-readable recording medium of claim 14, wherein the click operation detected by the operation detector includes at least one of a click, a double click, a finger gesture, or any mouse event.

16. A method of changing a setting on a display device comprising:

displaying an icon on a display device;

performing an operation on at least a portion of the icon on a surface of the display device;

detecting the operation performed on the icon; and

changing a content of a setting from a first setting value associated with the icon upon which the operation has been performed to a second setting value; and

switching the displayed icon from a first icon image corresponding to the first setting value to a second icon image corresponding to the second setting value on the display device.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising:

providing an icon display processor configured to display the icon on the display device;

providing an operation detector configured to detect an operation performed on the icon displayed on the display device; and

providing a setting changing processor configured to change the setting from the first setting value to the second setting value.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the operation detected comprises at least one of a click, a double click, at least one keystroke, at least one mouse movement, at least one finger movement, at least one sound, or at least one movement of light.

19. A computer-readable recording medium having a driver program stored, the driver program causing a computer to function as:

an icon display processor configured to display an icon on a display device;

an operation detector configured to detect an operation performed on the icon displayed on the display device;

a setting changing processor configured to change a setting associated with the icon upon which the operation has been performed to a second setting value; and

wherein the icon display processor is configured to change the icon from a first icon image to a second icon image corresponding to the second setting value.

20. A computer-readable recording medium having a driver program stored, the driver program causing a computer to function as:

an icon display processor configured to display an icon on a display device;

an operation detector configured to detect an operation performed on the icon displayed on the display device;

a setting changing processor configured to change a setting associated with the icon upon which the operation has been performed; and

an icon switching display processor configured to switch a first icon image of the icon to a second icon image of the icon on the display device according to the change in the setting value of the setting from a first setting value to a second setting value executed by the setting changing processor.