Kyocera Mita Corporation

Miki Teshima

Hiromi Sakata

Tetsuya Maeda

Dai Shigenobu

Chigusa Mochizuki

Michiko Tashiro

To provide enhanced operability to users incapable of setting complicated operations such as handicapped people, children, and old people. An operation panel section displays a plurality of settable functions to receive an input of the plurality of the settable functions. An input controller switches an input mode through an operation panel section between a standard mode in which any function can be set and a universal mode in which limited functions can be set with visibility higher than the standard mode.

Image forming apparatus and input operating device for use in the same having a universal mode in which limited functions can be set with recognition higher than in a standard mode

An image forming apparatus is provided with a display device for displaying an operation guide to an operator, and a display controller for causing the display device to display an operation procedure comprised of a plurality of operations as the operation guide while automatically switching the respective operations in rotation.

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Osaka, Japan

Miki Teshima