Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Masayuki Gomi

Norihide Momose

Takashi Kubo

Takehiro Katoh

Kazunori Soda

Yoshifumi Maitani

Norihide Kunikawa

Suehiro Ueda

Yasuhiro Inoue

Noritomo Nakashima

Yoshio Nishimoto

Atsushi Umekage

Hiroki Kinoshita

Hideki Sekino

Yukinari Satou

Masahiro Kitajiri

A display device of an electronic apparatus according to the present invention is a display device of an electronic apparatus for setting a plurality of conditions for a process of the electronic apparatus through an input portionwhile displaying the conditions before the electronic apparatus performs the process in accordance with the conditions. The device comprises a determination portionof determining whether or not each of the conditions has not yet been set, and a liquid crystal display panelof displaying notifying information indicating to what degree conditions remain to be set. The liquid crystal display paneldisplays buttons for setting the respective conditions on a screen thereof, and displays button(s) which have already been pressed as being unfilled and the number of buttons which have not yet been pressed. Therefore, by viewing the screen, the number and types of conditions which have not yet set can be known.

Display device of electronic apparatus

The invention provides a platen cover open/close mechanism for an image scanning device including platen glass, a platen cover for pressing an original against the platen glass and an optical scanning unit for scanning an image on the original. In one form of the invention, the platen cover is formed as a single piece and always held parallel to the platen glass. In another form of the invention, the platen cover is divided into at least two portions, of which one portion is always held parallel to the platen glass.

Platen cover open/close mechanism for image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a paper transport unit, and a control unit for supplying the image forming unit with image data for a plurality of pages so that the image forming unit forms images page by page on sheets transported by the paper transport unit, wherein, when the image data for each page includes data representative of blanks on a leading end side and on a tail end side of the page in a paper transport direction, the control unit deletes the data representative of the blank either on the leading end side or on the tail end side from the image data prior to supplying the image forming unit with the image data, and controls the paper transport unit so that a plurality of sheets are transported sequentially to the image formation unit in a multiple state in which one sheet partially overlaps with another in the paper transport direction by a length corresponding to the deleted data representative of the blank.

Image formation apparatus

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Kashihara, Japan

Masayuki Gomi