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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2011
Toshihisa Motosugi, Okazaki, JP;
Toshihisa Motosugi, Okazaki, JP;
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to improve the maneuverability and usability of the apparatus concerned. The apparatus includes: a display section to display a screen thereon; a controlling section to form a synthesized image in which position detecting symbols are synthesized with an image onto which the screen displayed on the display section is to be arranged; a storage section to store a table in which the keys and corresponding positions of the keys, arranged on the paper sheet, are correlated with each other, respectively; and a printing section to print the synthesized image onto the paper sheet. When acquiring positional information, the controlling section refers to the table so as to specify a specific key correlated with the positional information, and establishes a status of the image forming apparatus, being same as that established by designating the specific key from the screen.