Image processor permitting resetting operation while maintaining desired operation mode

• US 5,452,057 A
• Filed: 05/18/1993
• Issued: 09/19/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Muroki, Kenichi, Imaizumi, Shoji, Kusumoto, Keiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Matthew S.
• Application Number:
  US08/063,527
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• Field of Search: 355/202, 355/203, 355/204, 355/208, 355/209, 355/206
• US Class Current: 399/38
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00352 Input means H04N1/00411 takes precedence; input arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• 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 1/00397 Switches, knobs or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00416 Multi-level menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00432 using tabs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00474 outputting a plurality of functional options, e.g. scan, copy or print
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32561 using a programmed control device, e.g. a microprocessor

Abstract

In an image processor capable of setting operation modes separately for a plurality of items related to image processing, it can be designated whether or not to reset the operation mode of each item to an initial mode. The designated data is stored in a resetting/not resetting memory. In the apparatus, when a batch reset processing is instructed, only an item authorized to be reset according to the data stored in the memory is reset to the initial mode. As a result, even if the batch reset instruction is executed, a desired operation mode is not reset.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus having a plurality of operation items and capable of operation by setting said operation items to various operation modes from a fixed initial mode, comprising:

first initializing means for outputting first initializing signals;

second initializing means for outputting second initializing signals;

setting means for setting, for each operation item, whether to change the operation mode thereof to said initial mode or to maintain a present operation mode;

storing means for storing information indicating whether said operation mode is initialized or not for each of said operation items; and

control means responsive to output of said first or second initializing signals for controlling said apparatus to initialize said operation mode of said items which are initialized according to said information of said storing means and to maintain said present operation mode of said items which are not initialized according to said information of said storing means,

wherein said first initializing means outputs said first initializing signals responsive to an action of setting an original.