IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• US 20080246989A1
• Filed: 10/05/2007
• Published: 10/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shigeo Konuma
• Original Assignee: Shigeo Konuma
• Inventors: KONUMA, Shigeo
• Application Number:
  US11/868,248
• Publication Number:
  US 20080246989A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/5016 User-machine interface; Display panels; Control console
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens

Abstract

There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to confirm setting contents of the job in a state that the job list is still displayed. The image forming apparatus includes: a job storage section to store job information including setting contents of the job in it; a display section to display a screen in which a first area and a second area are disposed in such a manner that those do not overlap with each other; and a control section to control contents to be displayed within the screen by the display section. The control section controls the display section, so that a job list based on the job information is displayed on the first area, and, at the same time, the setting contents of a specific job selected from the job list are displayed on the second area in parallel to the job list.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus that executes a job to form an image, comprising:

a job storage section to store job information including setting contents of the job in it;

a display section to display a screen in which a first area and a second area are disposed in such a manner that the first area and the second area do not overlap with each other; and

a control section to control contents to be displayed within the screen by the display section;

wherein the control section controls the display section, so that a job list based on the job information stored in the job storage section is displayed on the first area, and, at the same time, the setting contents of a specific job selected from the job list are displayed on the second area in parallel to the job list.

2. The image forming apparatus of claim 1,

wherein, when a predetermined operating button is selected in a state that the setting contents of the specific job are displayed on the second area, the control section implements a predetermined operation in regard to the specific job.

3. The image forming apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the predetermined operation is to change a priority order of the specific job.

4. The image forming apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the predetermined operation is to delete the specific job.

5. The image forming apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the predetermined operation is to enter the specific job into a pending state.

6. The image forming apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the setting contents of the specific job are displayed item by item within the second area in such a manner that each of setting items displayed on the second area also serves as an operating button;

and

wherein, when the operating button is selected, the image forming apparatus enters into a state of accepting an operation for changing setting contents of the setting item corresponding to the selected operating button concerned.

7. The image forming apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the operation for changing setting contents is to release the setting contents of the setting item corresponding to the selected operating button concerned.

8. The image forming apparatus of claim 6,

wherein the setting contents of the specific job are classified into plural groups, so as to display the plural groups classified and titles of the plural groups, while correlating each of the plural groups to each of the titles.

9. The image forming apparatus of claim 2,

wherein the setting contents of the specific job, to be displayed on the second area, include at least information indicating a paper sheet feeding tray and other information of a paper sheet to be fed from the paper sheet feeding tray.