IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INTERFACE SCREEN, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20110317192A1
• Filed: 06/15/2011
• Published: 12/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: FUKUOKA, Kaoru, IMAIZUMI, Shoji, KURUMASA, Yoichi, KODAMA, Kana
• Granted Patent: US 8,705,057 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.13
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• 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 1/00419 Arrangements for navigating between pages or parts of the menu

Abstract

An image processing apparatus having a plurality of functions includes a scroll display portion that displays a row of markers and a slider for specifying one or more markers sequentially by moving along the row, an image display portion that displays functional images for representing functions corresponding to the markers specified by the slider, a setting portion that receives setting item details for a function specified by one of the functional images selected, and an extraction portion that extracts a function having the setting item details received by the setting portion different from an initial value. The image display portion displays a functional image for a longer time when the functional image represents the function extracted by the extraction portion than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted by the extraction portion.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus having a plurality of functions, comprising:

a scroll display portion that displays a scroll track and a slider, the scroll track being an image in which display areas corresponding to the plurality of functions are successively placed, the slider being an image for specifying a partial area of the scroll track sequentially by moving along the scroll track;

an image display portion that displays functional images specified by the slider, the functional images being images representing the plurality of functions corresponding to the display areas contained in the partial area of the scroll track;

a setting portion that receives setting item details for a function specified by one of the functional images selected by a user; and

an extraction portion that extracts a function having the setting item details received by the setting portion different from an initial value,

wherein the image display portion displays a functional image for a longer time when the functional image represents the function extracted by the extraction portion than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted by the extraction portion.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the extraction portion extracts a related function to the setting item details received by the setting portion.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image display portion displays the functional images in such a manner that the functional images appear to move at a speed in accordance with a speed of a movement of the slider, and, the image display portion displays a functional image at a lower speed when the functional image represents the function extracted by the extraction portion than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted by the extraction portion.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image display portion displays the functional images in such a manner that the functional images appear to move at a speed in accordance with a speed of a movement of the slider, and, the image display portion displays a functional image in such a manner that the functional image appears to stop at a predetermined position for a predetermined time when the functional image represents the function extracted by the extraction portion.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an automatic change portion that, when the setting portion receives the setting item details for the function specified by the functional image selected by the user, changes automatically setting item details relating to a predetermined function other than the function specified by the functional image thus selected,

wherein the extraction portion extracts, as a related function, the predetermined function of which the setting item details have been changed automatically.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the extraction portion extracts, as a related function, a function for a setting item that is in a restriction relationship with the setting item details received by the setting portion.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the setting portion receives setting item details for a function, the extraction portion extracts, as a related function, a function for a setting item that is presumed to be specified subsequently.

8. A method for displaying an interface screen used in an image processing apparatus having a plurality of functions, the method comprising:

a scroll display step of displaying a scroll track and a slider, the scroll track being an image in which display areas corresponding to the plurality of functions are successively placed, the slider being an image for specifying a partial area of the scroll track sequentially by moving along the scroll track;

an image display step of displaying functional images specified by the slider, the functional images being images representing the plurality of functions corresponding to the display areas that are specified by the slider and are contained in the partial area of the scroll track;

a setting step of receiving setting item details for a function specified by one of the functional image selected by a user; and

an extraction step of extracting a function having the setting item details, received in the setting step, different from an initial value,

wherein the image display step includes displaying a functional image for a longer time when the functional image represents the function extracted in the extraction step than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted in the extraction step.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the extraction step includes extracting a related function to the setting item details received in the setting step.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the image display step includes displaying the functional images in such a manner that the functional images appear to move at a speed in accordance with a speed of a movement of the slider, and, the image display step includes displaying a functional image at a lower speed when the functional image represents the function extracted in the extraction step than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted in the extraction step.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the image display step includes displaying the functional images in such a manner that the functional images appear to move at a speed in accordance with a speed of a movement of the slider, and, the image display step includes displaying a functional image in such a manner that the functional image appears to stop at a predetermined position for a predetermined time when the functional image represents the function extracted in the extraction step.

12. The method according to claim 8, further comprising an automatic change step of, when the setting item details for the function specified by the functional image selected by the user are received, changing automatically setting item details relating to a predetermined function other than the function specified by the functional image thus selected,

wherein the extraction step includes extracting, as a related function, the predetermined function of which the setting item details have been changed automatically.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the extraction step includes extracting, as a related function, a function for a setting item that is in a restriction relationship with the setting item details received in the setting step.

14. The method according to claim 8, wherein the extraction step includes extracting, as a related function, a function for a setting item that is presumed to be specified subsequently when the setting item details for a function are received in the setting step.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon a computer program used in an image processing apparatus that has a plurality of functions and displays an interface screen, the computer program causing the image forming apparatus to perform:

a scroll display step of displaying a scroll track and a slider, the scroll track being an image in which display areas corresponding to the plurality of functions are successively placed, the slider being an image for specifying a partial area of the scroll track sequentially by moving along the scroll track;

an image display step of displaying functional images specified by the slider, the functional images being images representing the plurality of functions corresponding to the display areas that are specified by the slider and are contained in the partial area of the scroll track;

a setting step of receiving setting item details for a function specified by one of the functional image selected by a user; and

an extraction step of extracting a function having the setting item details, received in the setting step, different from an initial value,

wherein the image display step includes displaying a functional image for a longer time when the functional image represents the function extracted in the extraction step than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted in the extraction step.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the extraction step includes extracting a related function to the setting item details received in the setting step.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the image display step includes displaying the functional images in such a manner that the functional images appear to move at a speed in accordance with a speed of a movement of the slider, and, the image display step includes displaying a functional image at a lower speed when the functional image represents the function extracted in the extraction step than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted in the extraction step.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the image display step includes displaying the functional images in such a manner that the functional images appear to move at a speed in accordance with a speed of a movement of the slider, and, the image display step includes displaying a functional image in such a manner that the functional image appears to stop at a predetermined position for a predetermined time when the functional image represents the function extracted in the extraction step.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, further comprising an automatic change step of, when the setting item details for the function specified by the functional image selected by the user are received, changing automatically setting item details relating to a predetermined function other than the function specified by the functional image thus selected,

wherein the extraction step includes extracting, as a related function, the predetermined function of which the setting item details have been changed automatically.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the extraction step includes extracting, as a related function, a function for a setting item that is in a restriction relationship with the setting item details received in the setting step.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the extraction step includes extracting, as a related function, a function for a setting item that is presumed to be specified subsequently when the setting item details for a function are received in the setting step.