Display device and display control method

• US 9,035,973 B2
• Filed: 10/20/2010
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuki, Yoshitaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Xiao
• Assistant Examiner(s): Salvucci, Matthew D
• Application Number:
  US12/908,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20110096096A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,672 Days
• Field of Search: 345/684, 345/685, 715783-785
• US Class Current: 345/684
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00469 with enlargement of a selected area of the displayed information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

A display device according to the present invention has: a display section; an image storage section that stores, as subjects to be displayed on the display section, a plurality of combinations of images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items associated with hierarchical levels; a display controller that sequentially scroll-displays on the display section the images stored in the image storage section; a touch panel that accepts from an operator designation of a coordinate position within a display area of the display section; and a speed detector that detects a speed change at which the coordinate position designated from the touch panel changes, wherein the display controller reduces the number of items of each of the images scroll-displayed on the display section, as the speed of change detected by the speed detector increases.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:

a scanner section;

a facsimile communication section that transmits image data of an original document read by the scanner section;

a display section that displays images;

an image storage section that stores, as subjects to be displayed on the display section, plurality of combinations of images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items having different hierarchical levels and encompassing a range from an item associated with a high order hierarchical level to an item associated with a low order hierarchical level;

a display controller that sequentially scroll-displays by a list form on the display section the images stored in the image storage section, each of the images stored in the image storage section being configured by the same plurality of items and each of the images showing a destination of the image data; and

a speed detector that detects a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed,

wherein the display controller scroll-displays by the list form continuously, on the display section, images exhibiting items at congruent levels, and scroll-displays portions of the items that are congruent with those of any adjacent images among the images scroll-displayed on the display section as a blank space in a list when the scroll display speed detected by the speed detector reaches a predetermined first speed, and

wherein, regarding an image having the blank space and having the item that is one order hierarchal level higher than the item of the lower order hierarchal level that is not the blank space in each of the images, the display controller displays the item of the one order hierarchal level higher at the low order hierarchal level when the display speed detected by the speed detector reaches a second speed faster than the first speed.

2. A display control method for displaying a plurality of images on a display section of an image forming apparatus that includes a scanner section and a facsimile communication section that transmits image data of an original document read by the scanner section,

the display control method comprising:

an image display step of sequentially scroll-displaying by a list form on the display section the images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items having different hierarchical levels and encompassing a range from an item associated with a high order hierarchical level to an item associated with a low order hierarchical level, wherein each of the images is configured by the same plurality of items and each of the images shows a destination of the image data;

a coordinate position designation accepting step of accepting, from an operator, designation of a coordinate position within a display area of the display section;

an instruction accepting step of accepting input of an instruction that is associated with an image displayed in the coordinate position designated in the coordinate position designation accepting step;

a speed detection step of detecting a scroll display speed when the scroll-display is executed; and

a display image number increasing/reducing step of scroll-displaying by the list form continuously, on the display section, images exhibiting items at congruent levels, and scroll-displaying portions of the items that are congruent with those of any adjacent images among the images scroll-displayed on the display section as a blank space in a list when the scroll display speed detected in the speed detection step reaches a predetermined first speed,

wherein, regarding an image having the blank space and having the item that is one order hierarchal level higher than the item of the lower order hierarchal level that is not the blank space in each of the images, the display controller displays the item of the one order hierarchal level higher at the low order hierarchal level when the display speed detected by the speed detector reaches a second speed faster than the first speed.