Patent ID: 11943401
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A display control method of an image processing apparatus including; a printer; a scanner; a display; and an input interface, the method comprising:
displaying a standby screen, the standby screen being included in a plurality of screens and configured to be switchable to another screen,
wherein icons, which are images associated with functions respectively, are registered for each of the screens,
wherein one of a common attribute and a personal attribute is set to each of the screens,
wherein a specific registered user is registered for each of the screens,
wherein the icons include at least one icon associated with a printing function of the printer and at least one icon associated with a scanning function of the scanner,
wherein the display control method further comprises:
setting one of the screens as a main screen; and
setting a user mode for the image processing apparatus to one of an ordinary mode in which no registered user has logged in to the image processing apparatus and an individual mode in which a registered user has logged in to the image processing apparatus, and setting the user mode to the individual mode in accordance with an input of user authentication information corresponding to the registered user via the input interface,

wherein displaying the standby screen includes:
displaying the standby screen on the display in accordance with the user mode being set to the ordinary mode; and
displaying the standby screen on the display in accordance with the user mode being set to the individual mode,

wherein when displaying the standby screen on the display in accordance with the user mode being set to the ordinary mode,
a common attribute screen set with the common attribute is displayed as the standby screen, but no personal attribute screen set with the personal attribute is displayed in the display,
if the main screen is set with the common attribute, then the main screen is displayed as the standby screen, and
if the main screen is set with the personal attribute, then the main screen is not displayed and another common attribute screen is displayed as the standby screen, and

wherein when displaying the standby screen on the display in accordance with the user mode being set to the individual mode,
a personal attribute screen registered with the registered user is displayed as the standby screen, and
no personal attribute screen registered with another registered user is displayed as the standby screen.