Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Operation device for image forming apparatus, and operation method thereof
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置的操作装置及其操作方法
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Application No.: US13234526Application Date: 2011-09-16
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Publication No.: US08823957B2Publication Date: 2014-09-02
- Inventor: Takanori Miyamoto
- Applicant: Takanori Miyamoto
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
- Priority: JP2010-219596 20100929
- Main IPC: G06F3/12
- IPC: G06F3/12 ; G06F15/00 ; G06K1/00 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
The operation device according to the present invention includes a touch panel configured to enable selection of a predetermined key contained in a predetermined screen, a function screen display reception unit for displaying a screen including a screen area and a retreat area being an area that is different from the screen area, an operation unit, a screen switching reception unit for displaying an icon key corresponding to the function of the second function screen on the touch panel in a selectable configuration at a predetermined position of the retreat area, a reduced screen display reception unit that displays a first reduced screen key for reducing the first function screen on the touch panel in a selectable configuration in the retreat area, and a function screen switching unit for switching the display of the first function screen in the screen area to the display of the second function screen.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120075652A1 OPERATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND OPERATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2012-03-29
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