Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus displaying function-related information
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置显示功能相关信息
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Application No.: US12800305Application Date: 2010-05-12
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Publication No.: US08482774B2Publication Date: 2013-07-09
- Inventor: Mikiya Okada , Terumi Hayashi
- Applicant: Mikiya Okada , Terumi Hayashi
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
- Agent David G. Conlin; Edmund J. Koundakjian
- Priority: JP2009-119625 20090518
- Main IPC: H04N1/40
- IPC: H04N1/40

Abstract:
A CPU of an MFP executes a program including: a step of receiving combination information collecting combinations of functions set by a user from a server computer and storing the information in a function combination management table; a step of reading the function combination management table, when a user logged in to a certain MFP selects a function; a step of reading not-to-be-displayed recommended function for the user from a not-to-be-displayed function management table; a step of displaying a function or functions combined with high frequency with the established function and not set to be not-to-be-displayed, as recommendations on a touch panel display; and a step of storing, when a recommended menu setting button is pressed and a function set as not-to-be-displayed function is established, storing the selected function as the not-to-be-displayed recommended function, in the not-to-be-displayed function management table.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100290068A1 Image forming apparatus displaying function-related information Public/Granted day:2010-11-18
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