Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hirohito Morioka

Kazuya Masuda

Mariko Arai

Yoshinori Nakahira

Takashi Ide

Sohichi Yoshimura

Yoshikazu Kondoh

Kenji Tani

Kouichi Eto

Takahiro Kawakami

Masaaki Kawakami

Kimiko Watanabe

Koji Tsukamoto

Toshinori Tsujii

Hitoshi Mitsui

Hiroki Eto

Takashi Sugitoh

Mikiya Okada

Hirotaka Kodama

Kazuhiko Ido

Tsutomu Itai

Kayoko Iwase

This display device includes a display and a controller. The controller provisionally places an object on a display area of the display, determines a display size of the object that allows the object to be contained within the display area by comparing a size of the object with a size of the display area, and renders the object in the display area using the thus determined display size of the object.

Display device and method for controlling display device

A display device includes one or more processors, one or more memories that store setting information of an executed job as setting history information under control of the one or more processors, and a display. The one or more processors display in the display a first display region for displaying a list of setting history information stored in the one or more memories, a second display region for displaying the setting information based on the setting history information selected by a user from the list display, and a reception button for receiving an instruction to display a setting screen of a job in which the setting information based on the setting history information selected by the user is employed.

Display device and method for controlling the same

An information processing device including a numerical value inputter that inputs a numerical value, the information processing device comprising: a display that displays the numerical value inputter on an operation screen; and a numerical value inputting method controller that selects a numerical value inputting method of the numerical value inputter based on a physical display size of the numerical value inputter relative to the operation screen.

Information processing device and method for controlling information processing device

A display controller includes: a display unit that displays information together with a menu of operations; a screen controller that switches at least one item included in the menu between full display and compact display for display; and an operation unit that accepts an operation from a user including an operation for the menu. In a case where the operation unit accepts the operation for the menu, the screen controller switches the compact display of the menu item to the full display in response to the operation. In a case where display other than the menu is updated, the screen controller switches the full display of the menu item to the compact display.

Display controller, image forming apparatus including the same, and display control method

An image forming apparatus includes a CPU and a speaker, and the CPU selects a voice message for output, which corresponds to information to be notified to a person who uses the image forming apparatus, in accordance with a situation of the image forming apparatus, sets, as an output volume value, a normal volume value allocated to the message for output, and when determining that a person exists around the image forming apparatus in accordance with an output of a person detection sensor, determines whether to change the output volume value, and when determining that the output volume value is to be changed, changes the output volume value in accordance with a content of the voice message for output. Then, the voice message for output is output from the speaker with a volume according to the output volume value.

Image forming apparatus performing notification by voice, storage medium storing control program, and control method

A document reading device that is capable of selectively designating a document reading process includes a sound output unit that gives notification of information needed for a document reading process that has been selected and a notification control unit that controls output from the sound output unit. When a specific document reading process has been selected, the notification control unit exercises control so that in a case where a device state of the document reading device is not the specific device state, notification information that prompts for the specific device state is outputted by the sound output unit after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the specific document reading process was selected and so that in a case where the device state of the document reading device is the specific device state, notification information whose content prompts for the specific device state is not outputted by the sound output unit.

Document reading device, image forming apparatus, and guidance notification method

In an image forming apparatus including a control unit made of a display panel and a touch panel display for providing preview display, the touch panel display includes: a finished state preview controller for displaying the finished state of a hard copy formed by the image forming apparatus, on the display panel; and a confirmatory display controller for displaying preview images for confirmation in a turning manner. The display panel includes a first display area for displaying the finished state of the hard copy, a second display area for displaying a image of the page to be turned for confirmation and a third display area for displaying the images that have been displayed for confirmation, in order in a layered manner.

Image forming apparatus that displays plural pages of document images in three-dimensional preview presentation

In an image forming apparatus including a control unit made of a display panel and a touch panel display and having one-sided image forming mode and dual-sided image forming mode, the touch panel display includes: a finished state preview controller for displaying the finished state of a hard copy; and a confirmatory display controller. The display panel includes a first display area, a second display area and a third display area. The image forming apparatus includes a display position switching controller that switches the position of the image of the page to be turned to be displayed in the third display area, depending on the image forming mode.

Image forming apparatus that changes the form of the display in an overlapping manner based on the selection of either a one-sided image forming mode or a dual-sided image forming mode

A display device or an input device includes: a display section for simultaneously displaying (i) a first image in a first direction and (ii) a second image, which is different from the first image, in a second direction different from the first direction; and a reflecting section. The reflecting section reflects the second image, which is displayed on the display section, toward a viewing position where the first image is viewable and recognizable. This allows a user to simultaneously view (i) the first image displayed in the first direction by the display device or the input device and (ii) the second image displayed in the second direction by the display device or the input device.

Display device, input device, printing device, and electric device

A job processing apparatus includes a job executing section, an operating section, an interface section, and a control section. The control section shifts the job processing apparatus from a normal operation mode to a power-saving operation mode after a lapse of standby time T during which no command input to the job executing section is detected. The control section returns the job processing apparatus from the power-saving operation mode to the normal operation mode when a command input to the job executing section is detected in the power-saving operation mode. The control section utilizes standby time T, instead of the standby time T, if a last job executed by the job executing section is according to job data input through the interface section. The standby time Tis shorter than the standby time T.

Job processing apparatus

An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a compound image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the compound image forming apparatus is changed.

Image forming apparatus

An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a complex image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the complex image forming apparatus is changed.

An image forming apparatus having a plurality of discharge trays is provided, from which a user can readily obtain printed sheets he has requested. The user inputs a secret code at an operating and displaying section, which secret code the user specified at the terminal device at the time of print request (S ). When a coincidence between the inputted secret code and a secret code stored in secret code storage section is judged (S ), the target discharge tray information corresponding to the secret code is read out from a secret code storage section (memory) and displayed on the operating and displaying section (S ). Accordingly, the user can visually recognize information about a discharge tray on which the user's requested printed sheets are discharged.

A method of printing with an automatic replacement includes the steps of specifying a memory; setting a sheet of paper on which a character group stored in the memory specified has been printed, to a printer having a carrier; inputting a search text and a replacement text and storing them; retrieving the character group from the head of characters to the end one character after another to recognize whether the character group has an element identical with the search text; calculating a position on said printed sheet each time the retrieving is performed; moving the carrier to the position calculated when the character group has an element identical with the search text; erasing a part where the element identical with the search text is printed on the printed sheet; and printing the replacement text in a blank from which the element has been erased without changing the contents of the memory.

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Nara, Japan

Hirohito Morioka