Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kohki Fukuda

Syoichiro Yoshiura

Tatsuo Nomura

Keiichi Hasegawa

Yasuhiro Nakai

Yuji Okamoto

Hiranaga Yamamoto

Keiko Hirukawa

Kazuhiro Miki

Shinichiro Ota

Akira Tsuruta

Seiji Takeda

Kazuyuki Ohgita

Yuhji Okamoto

Hotaka Isobe

A multi-window management apparatus includes: an activating icon display unit for displaying activating iconsandon a display screen; a window display unit opening, when activating iconis designated, a windowcorresponding to activating iconnext to activating icon; and a window arranging unit for rearranging and displaying, when activating iconis designated, a windowthat has been open, and activating iconsandother than the designated activating icon, such that these are arranged along the longer side direction of display screennot to be overlapping on an area where the new windowis to be opened.

Multi-window management apparatus and program, storage medium and information processing apparatus

A digital copying machine as an example of the image processing apparatus is provided with a scanner unit and a printer unit is arranged such that a display state of a printer-side display panel of a printer-side user interface section changes its display state in response to a command entered by a scanner-side user interface. As a result, an image processing apparatus provided with a plurality of user interface sections of desirable operability can be realized.

Image processing apparatus

A display section of a scanner is connected to a printer controller of a printer via a bus line, so that detailed information regarding the scanner the printer and so on is controlled by the printer controller. Both display contents respectively regarding the printer or the scanner are stored in a VRAM of the printer controller. Because of this, the detailed information regarding the printer is displayed on the display section of the scanner, which is a large LCD. This provides an image forming system, which notifies a user of the detailed information of the printer in a such manner that the user can easily understand the detailed information, when the scanner and the printer, each of which can be used independently, are combined as a system.

Image forming system having display sections with different formats

The input device for controlling an apparatus includes: a display device for displaying an image represented by a plurality of dots; a touch panel disposed over the display face of the display device for outputting information of a position where the panel is operated in accordance with the displayed image on the display device; a command content determining device for determining the content of the command selected, based on the relationship between the positional information output from the touch panel and the image displayed on the display device, wherein the image displayed on the display device includes an external outline of the apparatus having the input device; and a switching device for switching the display on the display device, into the display frame for setting the operation of a unit corresponding to the operated part of the external outline of the apparatus when part of the external outline of the apparatus displayed on the display portion is operated through the touch panel.

Input device

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Nara, Japan

Kohki Fukuda