Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Hideki Tennichi

Masayuki Yamashirodani

Takashi Toyoda

Tetsuya Maeda

Muneki Yamada

Akihiro Kanekawa

A display input device, when it has been determined that a plurality of messages, display periods of which overlap with each other, are mutually similar, selects one of the plurality of mutually similar messages as a display message to be displayed, and displays the display message in a display mode corresponding to a highest one of respective importance levels of the plurality of mutually similar messages, while not displaying, among the plurality of mutually similar messages, a message other than the display message.

Display input device and image forming apparatus including the same as well as method for controlling the display input device

An image forming apparatus includes a storage part storing a plurality of job data, an output part outputting a job of the job data and a job data erasion controlling part configured to overwrite and delete a previously output job data output from the output part. The job data erasion controlling part overwrites and deletes the previously output job data in an idle time other than a time at which the storage part is read and/or written when the job is output, and then, if the storage part has a free space area having a capacity larger than a predetermined capacity, the output job data is overwritten and deleted in descending order of data size, and if the storage part has a free space area having a capacity smaller than the predetermined capacity, the output job data is overwritten and deleted in ascending order of data size.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method erasing print data in descending or ascending order of file size dependent upon free memory space available

An image forming apparatus includes an execution controller for operating a function to be operated with function settings provided in a program. When a program is received by a program receiver, the execution controller causes a display controller to display box data stored in a document box related to the received program on a box data selection screen. Subsequently, after the box data selected and input on the displayed box data selection screen is received by a box data receiver, the execution controller handles the received box data as input data and operates the function to be operated with the function settings provided in the received program.

Image forming apparatus with document box for storing input data relating to execution conditions of functions executable by the image forming apparatus

The respective jobs of copying, printing, scanning, and faxing processed by an integrated application are unitarily divided into four job steps. A package of function modules selectively used in the respective jobs is classified into four groups of input, create, edit, and output function modules according to the division. A data format is unified into bitmap by a create function module, and the bitmap data is processed by an edit function module for pagination or aggregation, etc. In response to receiving setting information and a job code, a job controlling module creates job step control blocks and writes the information therein to create a job. Each of job step controlling (JSC) modules to starts a function module for each page, and after the completion thereof, creates a thread control block for the next downstream side JSC module.

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Hideki Tennichi