Image forming apparatus and display apparatus

• US 9,152,893 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2013
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Inventors: Konuma, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Guillermety, Fred
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHIFERAW, HENOK ASRES
• Application Number:
  US14/096,245
• Publication Number:
  US 20140085678A1
• Time in Patent Office: 671 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1806 Receiving job control commands
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0035 User-machine interface; Control console input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00472 using a pop-up window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00477 Indicating status, e.g. of a job for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N2201/3219
• 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 1/00954 Scheduling operations or managing resources H04N1/0096 takes precedence; program initiating or switching G06F9/48; allocation of computer resources G06F9/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet trays; an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet supplied by the sheet trays; and a display section which includes a display screen, upon which are displayed a first axis and a second axis, wherein sheet tray information identifying each of the plurality of sheet trays is displayed individually for each tray along the first axis, and information concerning the time period scheduled for use of each of the sheet trays is displayed along the second axis at a position along the first axis where the sheet tray information for the respective sheet tray is located.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus for executing a job to form an image based on image data, the image forming apparatus comprising:

a plurality of sheet trays;

an image forming section which forms the image on a sheet supplied by the sheet trays; and

a display section which includes a display screen, upon which are displayed a first axis and a second axis, wherein sheet tray information identifying each of the plurality of sheet trays is displayed individually for each tray along the first axis, and a plurality of job bars corresponding to jobs scheduled for each of the sheet trays is displayed along the second axis at a position along the first axis where the sheet tray information for the respective sheet tray is located,

wherein the display section displays a pop-up screen displaying job setting information corresponding to a job bar of a job selected by a user among the job bars of jobs scheduled for each of the sheet trays, and

wherein information concerning an amount of the sheets accommodated in each of the sheet trays is displayed correspondingly to each of the sheet tray information.

2. The image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sheet tray information includes a type of sheet.

3. The image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the job bars represent information concerning a residual sheet amount of each of the sheet trays.

4. The image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein each job bar corresponds to a single job.

5. The image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first axis is vertical and the second axis is horizontal.

6. The image forming apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the job bars represent the start and end time of each job.

12. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the job setting information includes at least one of a job ID of the selected job, file name, paper size, paper type and paper weight.

7. A display device for displaying a schedule of a job executed in an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including a plurality of sheet trays and an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet supplied by the sheet trays in order to form the image based on image data, the display device comprising:

a display section which includes a display screen, upon which are displayed a first axis and a second axis,

wherein sheet tray information identifying each of the plurality of sheet trays is displayed individually for each tray along the first axis, and a plurality of job bars corresponding to jobs scheduled for each of the sheet trays is displayed along the second axis at a position along the first axis where the information for the respective sheet tray is located,

wherein the display section displays a pop-up screen displaying job setting information corresponding to a job bar of a job selected by a user among the job bars of jobs scheduled for each of the sheet trays, and

wherein information concerning an amount of the sheets accommodated in each of the sheet trays is displayed correspondingly to each of the sheet tray information; and

an operation section which detects input information based on a selected prescribed item when the prescribed item is operated with an input operation by the user on the display screen.

8. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the sheet tray information includes a type of sheet.

9. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the job bars represent information concerning a residual sheet amount of each of the sheet trays.

10. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein each job bar corresponds to a single job.

11. The display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first axis is vertical and the second axis is horizontal.

13. The display device of claim 7, wherein the job setting information includes at least one of a job ID of the selected job, file name, paper size, paper type and paper weight.