Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Masaaki Kawakami

Toshinori Tsujii

Hirohito Morioka

Kazuya Masuda

Yoshikazu Kondoh

Sohichi Yoshimura

Kenji Tani

Kouichi Eto

Takahiro Kawakami

Yoshinori Nakahira

Mariko Arai

Kimiko Watanabe

Koji Tsukamoto

Takashi Ide

Hiroki Eto

Takashi Sugitoh

Mikiya Okada

Tsutomu Itai

Hirotsugu Kubo

Masaki Shiozaki

The subject invention provides an image forming device including a main control section and a signal detection circuit for detecting presence or absence of an external signal supplied to the main control section, and further provided with an interface section for controlling external communication; a main power supply circuit; a power supply control circuit. The signal detection circuit includes a low power mode prohibition circuit for outputting a low power mode prohibition signal for voiding the request for low power consumption with respect to the power supply control circuit or the main power supply circuit while the external signal is supplied to the signal detection circuit. With this arrangement, the present invention provides an image forming device capable of appropriate transition into the low power consumption operation by hardware without use of software.

Image forming device, power supply control device

In case where a key having a detection region (inner frame) in which user's instructions can be accepted is displayed according to a certain operation status of an apparatus, and in case where there is an invalid region in which the user's instruction is not detectable is adjacent to a key display region (outer frame) of the key, the detection region of the key is caused to be larger than the key display region by utilizing the invalid region. Moreover, the detection region is expanded/shrunk according to key arrangement and a number of keys to be displayed. With this, the detection region of the key is expanded/shrunk according to according to the key arrangement on the screen in a display-cum-operation device in which a display device and a coordinate input device are integrated.

Information processing method, information processing device, image output device, information processing program, and recording medium

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.

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Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Masaaki Kawakami