IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20120314257A1
• Filed: 08/21/2012
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: OSADA, Mamoru
• Granted Patent: US 8,503,899 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• 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 21/00 Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/00109 Remote control of apparatus, e.g. by a host
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00962 Input arrangements for operating instructions or parameters, e.g. updating internal software program loading in general G06F9/445; network-specific protocols involving the movement of software or configuration parameters H04L67/34

Abstract

An image forming apparatus having a display unit for displaying a program which can be executed in the apparatus so as to be identified is disclosed. The apparatus has: an input unit for inputting a program into the image forming apparatus; a display control unit for controlling a process for displaying select keys including a plurality of select keys to instruct a selection of a desired one of a plurality of programs stored in the image forming apparatus onto a display screen displayed on the display unit; and a discriminating unit for discriminating whether the select key to instruct a selection of the program inputted by the input unit can be further displayed onto the first display screen to display the select keys corresponding to the programs registered in the image forming apparatus in response to the input of the program from the input unit or not.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. An application management apparatus in which a first application has been stored, comprising:

a downloading unit configured to download at least one second application, different from the first application, from an external apparatus connected to the application management apparatus via a network; and

a display unit configured to display (a) the first application, (b) a tab for accepting an instruction for shifting a screen, (c) a list of downloaded second applications without displaying the first application after the tab is activated by a user, (d) a button for stopping one second application selected by the user from among the list of downloaded second applications, and (e) a button for deleting the selected one second application.

20. The application management apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the display unit further displays version information of the downloaded second applications.

21. The application management apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the display unit displays items (b) to (e) on a display area and concurrently displays the status of the application management apparatus on a different display area.

22. The application management apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the display unit displays items (b) to (e) using a character train indicating that the displayed items are related to application management.

23. A method carried out in an application management apparatus in which a first application has been stored, the method comprising the steps of:

downloading at least one second application, different from the first application, from an external apparatus connected to the application management apparatus via a network; and

displaying (a) the first application, (b) a tab for accepting an instruction for shifting a screen, (c) a list of downloaded second applications without displaying the first application after the tab is activated by a user, (d) a button for stopping one second application selected by the user from among the list of downloaded second applications, and (e) a button for deleting the selected one second application.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein version information of the downloaded second applications are displayed in the displaying step.

25. The method according to claim 23, wherein items (b) to (e) are displayed in the displaying step on a display area, and the status of the application management apparatus is concurrently displayed on a different display area.

26. The method according to claim 23, wherein items (b) to (e) are displayed in the displaying step using a character train indicating that the displayed items are related to application management.

27. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program causing a method to be carried out in an application management apparatus in which a first application has been stored, the method comprising the steps of:

downloading at least one second application, different from the first application, from an external apparatus connected to the application management apparatus via a network; and

displaying (a) the first application, (b) a tab for accepting an instruction for shifting a screen, (c) a list of downloaded second applications without displaying the first application after the tab is activated by a user, (d) a button for stopping one second application selected by the user from among the list of downloaded second applications, and (e) a button for deleting the selected one second application.

28. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 27, wherein version information of the downloaded second applications are displayed in the displaying step.

29. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 27, wherein items (b) to (e) are displayed in the displaying step on a display area, and the status of the application management apparatus is concurrently displayed on a different display area.

30. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 27, wherein items (b) to (e) are displayed in the displaying step using a character train indicating that the displayed items are related to application management.