Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takashi Sugitoh

Hirohito Morioka

Kazuya Masuda

Yoshikazu Kondoh

Sohichi Yoshimura

Kenji Tani

Kouichi Eto

Mariko Arai

Takahiro Kawakami

Yoshinori Nakahira

Masaaki Kawakami

Kimiko Watanabe

Koji Tsukamoto

Toshinori Tsujii

Takashi Ide

Hiroki Eto

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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Kashihara, Japan

Takashi Sugitoh