Patent ID: 9516182
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an imaging-function display unit including a display panel defining a first-screen display area, and a touchscreen for accepting input of user operations, the display unit enabled to display a third screen in a left-side display area, with respect to a user operating the touchscreen, of display areas into which the first-screen display area is split, and display a second screen in a right-side display area of display areas into which the first-screen display area is split; a microcomputer configured to function as a display-content-based dynamically proportioning split screen processor enabled to control the imaging-function display unit, in response to a screen split operation when user operations are accepted through the touchscreen, to split the first-screen display area in proportion to first-screen display content and second-screen display content, and display, in the one of the display areas into which the first-screen display area is split, the third screen, being the first screen resized, such as to enable continuous accepting of user operations, and display, in the other of the display areas into which the first-screen display area is split, the second screen such as to enable accepting operations at the same time operations are accepted through the third screen; and storage storing a priority-level settings table in which split-screen-proportioning relative, size values prioritized by display content are established; wherein the split screen processor is further enabled to detect changed second-screen or third-screen display content, and thereupon refer to the priority settings table to obtain split-screen-proportioning relative size values determined by the detected changed display content, and dynamically resize the second-screen in proportion to the third-screen, in the screens' left-right orientation, according to the determined split-screen-proportioning relative size values, and wherein the priority-level settings table in the storage contains priority-level settings for system-setting and copying functions of the image forming apparatus, with the system-setting priority level being higher than the copying-function priority level.