Image processing apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium storing program

• US 9,189,140 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2013
• Issued: 11/17/2015
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): DRAGOESCU, CLAUDIA B
• Application Number:
  US13/749,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20130212531A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,027 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 display unit configured to display the list of items by scrolling in response to a user instruction operation;

a determination unit configured to determine whether or not there is a change in an item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit, wherein the change is a reordering of items in the list;

a control unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit, stop the scrolling of the displayed list of items to permit the user to view the item for which it is determined that there is the change and which is displayed by the display unit; and

a notification unit configured to display a display element in a highlighted manner to notify a user that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit,

wherein at least one of the display unit, the determination unit, the control unit, and the notification unit is implemented by a processor.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a notification unit configured to display a display element in a highlighted manner to notify a user that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the user instruction operation is a gesture manipulation for sliding a displayed screen.

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

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

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein scrolling by the display unit is stopped earlier than originally configured to stop, by increasing a deceleration rate of scrolling.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an acquiring unit configured to acquire the list of items,

wherein the display unit displays the list of items acquired by the acquiring unit by scrolling.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second determination unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit, determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied,

wherein in a case where the predetermined condition is satisfied, the control unit stops the scrolling of the displayed list of items to permit the user to view the item for which it is determined that there is the change.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8,

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

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8,

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

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8,

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

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the predetermined condition is an occurrence of reordering of items of the list.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein in a case where scrolling of the list of items is stopped, the acquiring unit acquires the list of items.

14. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the notification unit displays the display element in the highlighted manner to notify the user that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit, while scrolling is performed.

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

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

a determining step of determining whether or not there is a change in an item in of the list of items scrolled by the display step, wherein the change is a reordering of items in the list;

a control step of, if it is determined in a case where the determining step determines that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display step, stopping the scrolling of the displayed list of items displayed in the display step to permit the user to view the item for which it is determined that there is the change and which is displayed by the display step; and

a notification step of displaying a display element in a highlighted manner to notify a user that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute the following steps:

a display step of displaying a list of items by scrolling in response to a user instruction operation;

a determining step of determining whether or not there is a change in an item of the list of items scrolled by the display step, wherein the change is a reordering of items in the list;

a control step of, in a case where it is determined in the determining step that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display step, stopping the scrolling of the displayed list of items displayed in the display step to permit the user to view the item for which it is determined that there is the change and which is displayed by the display step; and

a notification step of displaying a display element in a highlighted manner to notify a user that there is the change in the item of the list of items scrolled by the display unit.