IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20130212531A1
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Hiroyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,189,140 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/829
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

An image processing apparatus that displays a list of items and a control method thereof, wherein the displayed list of items is displayed by sliding in response to an instruction operation by a user, if it is determined that there is a change in an item that needs to be displayed in the list, the user is notified of the fact that there is a change in the displayed list of items by, for example, stopping the slide display or performing highlighted display.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus that displays a list of items, the apparatus comprising:

a slide display unit configured to display by sliding the displayed list of items in response to a user instruction operation;

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is a change in an item that needs to be displayed in the list; and

a notification unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that there is a change in the item that needs to be displayed in the list, notify a user that there is a change in the displayed list of items.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the notification unit stops a slide operation in the slide display.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the notification unit displays a display element in the list display in a highlighted manner.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user instruction operation is a gesture manipulation.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the list display includes at least one of a job list, a document list and an address book list.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit performs the determination based on a notification of an event of a change in the items from management modules that respectively manage the job list, the document list and the address book list.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the slide operation is stopped earlier than originally configured to stop, by increasing a deceleration rate of the slide operation.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an acquiring unit configured to acquire the item that needs to be displayed in the list,

wherein the slide display unit displays by sliding the item acquired by the acquiring unit.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second determination unit configured to, if the determination unit determines that there is a change in the item that needs to be displayed in the list, determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied,

wherein if the predetermined condition is satisfied, the notification unit stops a slide operation on the slide display.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the predetermined condition is a condition that a predetermined period of time has elapsed from start of the slide display.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the predetermined condition is a condition that a predetermined period of time has elapsed from a notification of a previous change in the items.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the predetermined condition is a condition that it is determined that there are a predetermined number of changes in the items after a notification of a previous change in the items.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 9,

wherein the predetermined condition is reordering of the items.

14. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein in a case where it is necessary to acquire the item that needs to be displayed in the list by the acquiring unit, the notification unit stops a slide operation in the slide display.

15. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein in a case where it is unnecessary to acquire the item that needs to be displayed in the list by the acquiring unit, the notification unit highlights a display element in the list display so as to prompt a user to update the display.

16. A control method for controlling an image processing apparatus that displays a list of items, the method comprising:

a slide display step of displaying by sliding the displayed list of items in response to a user instruction operation;

a determining step of determining whether or not there is a change in an item that needs to be displayed in the list; and

a notification step of, if it is determined in the determining step that there is a change in the item that needs to be displayed in the list, notifying a user that there is a change in the displayed list of items.

17. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute the following:

a slide display step of displaying by sliding a displayed list of items in response to a user instruction operation;

a determining step of determining whether or not there is a change in an item that needs to be displayed in the list; and

a notification step of, if it is determined in the determining step that there is a change in the item that needs to be displayed in the list, notifying a user that there is a change in the displayed list of items.