IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20120274965A1
• Filed: 04/13/2012
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Okihisa, MURAKAMI, Masakazu
• Granted Patent: US 8,976,375 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.13
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• 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 1/00395 Arrangements for reducing operator input input arrangements for job or mode instructions or parameters H04N1/00962; intelligent menu interfaces H04N1/00437
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00424 using a list of graphical elements, e.g. icons or icon bar
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00435 arranged in a predetermined sequence, e.g. using next and previous buttons
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00437 Intelligent menus, e.g. anticipating user selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00503 Customising to a particular machine or model, machine function or application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32037 Automation of particular transmitter jobs, e.g. multi-address calling, auto-dialing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32683 Preventive counter-measures, e.g. using redundant hardware, or anticipating a fault arrangements for keeping a communication line open H04N1/32795
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0039 Connection via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image forming apparatus is provided which has an operating panel capable of providing a screen display and a Web browser. The image forming apparatus includes a storage for storing predetermined text that is data to be entered into a text entry box of a Web page; a text entry limiting portion for, when the Web page displayed on the operating panel by the Web browser contains the text entry box, limiting text to be entered into the text entry box to the predetermined text stored in the storage; a display processing portion for, when the text entry limiting portion limits text to be entered, displaying, on the operating panel, a screen for a user to designate the predetermined text as text to be entered into the text entry box; and an operation processing portion for informing the Web browser of the predetermined text designated by the user.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus including an operating panel capable of providing a screen display and a Web browser, the image forming apparatus comprising:

a storage portion configured to store predetermined text that is data to be entered into a text entry box of a Web page;

a text entry limiting portion configured to, when the Web page displayed on the operating panel by the Web browser contains the text entry box, limit text to be entered into the text entry box to the predetermined text stored in the storage portion;

a display processing portion configured to, when the text entry limiting portion limits text to be entered, display a screen on the operating panel, the screen being used for a user to designate the predetermined text as text to be entered into the text entry box; and

an operation processing portion configured to inform the Web browser of the predetermined text designated by the user.

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

the display processing portion extracts a plurality of sets of the predetermined text from data held in the image forming apparatus, and displays a text selection screen for the user to select text to be entered from among the plurality of sets of the predetermined text extracted, and

the operation processing portion informs the Web browser of the predetermined text selected on the text selection screen.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display processing portion excludes the predetermined text whose type is set by an administrator of the image forming apparatus from the plurality of sets of the predetermined text to be extracted.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the text entry limiting portion limits text to be entered by stopping changing indication on the operating panel by the Web browser to an operating screen for the user to enter text.

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

when data indicating the Web page displayed by the Web browser contains a text entry box and information indicating a type of text to be entered into the text entry box, and further, when the predetermined text corresponds to the information, the text entry limiting portion limits text to be entered into the text entry box to the predetermined text, and

the display processing portion displays a text selection screen for the user to select text to be entered from among the plurality of sets of the predetermined text corresponding to the information.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a recording portion configured to make a record of a history that identifies the Web page and shows a type of the predetermined text designated by the user,

wherein, when the Web page to be displayed by the Web browser is a Web page which is displayed before and whose history is already recorded, the display processing portion displays the predetermined text corresponding to the type shown in the history in a manner to take precedence over the predetermined text of another type.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon a computer program executed in an image forming apparatus that includes an operating panel capable of providing a screen display and a Web browser, the computer program causing a computer provided in the image forming apparatus to implement:

text entry limiting processing for, when a Web page displayed on the operating panel by the Web browser contains a text entry box, limiting text to be entered into the text entry box to predetermined text held in the image forming apparatus;

display processing for, when text to be entered is limited in the text entry limiting processing, displaying a screen on the operating panel, the screen being used for a user to designate the predetermined text as text to be entered into the text entry box; and

operation processing for informing the Web browser of the predetermined text designated by the user.