IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• US 20110317193A1
• Filed: 06/24/2011
• Published: 12/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: IWASE, Kayoko, MORIOKA, Hirohito
• Granted Patent: US 8,659,767 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.13
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/234 by inverting and refeeding the image receiving material with an image on one face to the recording member to transfer a second image on its second face, e.g. by using a duplex tray; Details of duplex trays or inverters
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5087 for receiving image data
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00109 Remote control of apparatus, e.g. by a host
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• 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 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00453 arranged in a two dimensional array
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00466 displaying finishing information, e.g. position of punch holes or staple or orientation references
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2369 Selecting a particular reproducing mode from amongst a plurality of modes, e.g. paper saving or normal, or simplex or duplex
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

In an image forming apparatus including a control unit made of a display panel and a touch panel display and having one-sided image forming mode and dual-sided image forming mode, the touch panel display includes: a finished state preview controller for displaying the finished state of a hard copy; and a confirmatory display controller. The display panel includes a first display area, a second display area and a third display area. The image forming apparatus includes a display position switching controller that switches the position of the image of the page to be turned to be displayed in the third display area, depending on the image forming mode.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus that finishes recording mediums with images formed thereon as a hard copy, comprising:

an input unit for acquiring image data;

an image forming portion that forms images on recording mediums based on the image data input through the input unit; and

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an image display operating device including a display portion that displays a preview image based on the image data and a display controller that has a function of presenting plural pages of document images in preview representation on the display portion, characterized in that

the image forming portion includes;

a one-sided image forming mode for forming images on one side of the recording mediums only; and

a dual-sided image forming mode for forming images on both sides of the recording mediums,

the display controller includes;

a finished state preview display controller that displays on the display portion, as a preview image, the finished state of the hard copy that the image forming apparatus can form, and,

a confirmatory display controller that turns and displays the preview image displayed on the display portion for each page for confirmation, and,

the display portion includes;

as a preview display region for displaying the preview image,

a first display area for displaying the finished state of the hard copies;

a second display area for displaying an image for each pages associated with the finished states that has been displayed in the first display area, while turning the page in turn; and

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a third display area for three-dimensionally displaying images of the pages that have been turned in the second display area with the pages stacked in turned order, and,

the second display area displays an image of a next page once the next page is turned, and,

the display portion further includes a display position switching controller that switches, between the one-sided image forming mode and the dual-sided image forming mode, the positions of the images displayed in the third display area after being turned in the second display area.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the display position switching controller displays the images displayed three-dimensionally in the third display area and the image of the page to be turned in the second display area, third display area hides a part of the second display area in the one-sided image forming mode, while a part of the third display area is hidden by the second display area in the dual-sided image forming mode.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first display area, the second display area and the third display area are arranged horizontally or vertically in order on the display screen of the display portion.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first display area and the third display area are laid out in pair, separately from the second display area.

5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein among the first display area, the second display area and the third display area, the second display area is the largest.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in the second display area, the image of the page to be turned is displayed frontward.

7. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the images previous to or next to the image of the page to be turned are displayed with a greater amount of information.

8. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein control keys for operation and control are constantly displayed in the display portion.

9. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in the dual-sided image forming mode, the images of the both sides of the page to be turned are displayed in the second display area so that the front side is displayed first and then the back side is displayed, and then, these images are fed to the third display area.

10. The image forming apparatus according to claim 9, wherein when in the dual-sided image forming mode, before the image of the back side of the page to be turned is displayed in the second display area, the image of the front side that has been displayed in the second display is made look like having rotated on the binding position.

11. The image forming apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the image of the front side of the page to be turned in the second display area is located closer to the first display area, and the image of the back side of the page to be turned in the second display area is located closer to the third display area.

12. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the hard copy is subjected to a binding process, each of document images of the hard copy, displayed in the display means is displayed with a bound position in the hard copy.