INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20170277393A1
• Filed: 07/25/2016
• Published: 09/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: IWASHITA, Hideharu, NOGUCHI, Nozomi, ISHIHARA, Ayaka, NAKAMURA, Shinichi
• Application Number:
  US15/218,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20170277393A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a setting-information changing unit and a selecting unit. The setting-information changing unit changes setting information which is information for specifying a condition when a function is to be implemented. When a derived function obtained by changing the setting information of the function is to be stored in association with a selected icon, the selecting unit restricts selection of a first icon associated with the function, and permits selection of a second icon different from the first icon.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a setting-information changing unit that changes setting information which is information for specifying a condition when a function is to be implemented; and

a selecting unit that, when a derived function is to be stored in association with a selected icon, the derived function being obtained by changing the setting information of the function, restricts selection of a first icon associated with the function, and permits selection of a second icon different from the first icon.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the second icon is common to the first icon in part.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the second icon is common to the first icon in shape or pattern, and is different from the first icon in color.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the second icon has an image portion common to an image portion of the first icon.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the second icon is an icon in which an image different from an image of the first icon is superimposed on the first icon.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display controller that, when the derived function is to be stored in association with the second icon, causes the first icon to be displayed.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein, when the derived function is to be stored in association with the second icon, the display controller makes a transition to display of the second icon while providing a visual effect on the first icon.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein, when a predetermined operation is performed on the second icon, the display controller causes the first icon to be displayed.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display controller that, when the derived function is to be stored in association with the second icon, causes the second icon to be displayed in a display area having a predetermined positional relationship with the first icon.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when the derived function is to be stored in association with the second icon, the selecting unit restricts selection of an icon that has been already used.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

changing setting information which is information for specifying a condition when a function is to be implemented; and

when a derived function is to be stored in association with a selected icon, the derived function being obtained by changing the setting information of the function, restricting selection of a first icon associated with the function, and permitting selection of a second icon different from the first icon.

12. An information processing method comprising:

changing setting information which is information for specifying a condition when a function is to be implemented; and

when a derived function is to be stored in association with a selected icon, the derived function being obtained by changing the setting information of the function, restricting selection of a first icon associated with the function, and permitting selection of a second icon different from the first icon.