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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
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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, andwherein, 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.

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