Patent ID: 9477336
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a display configured to display a plurality of images thereon; a coordinate detector configured to detect an input coordinate which is a coordinate indicating a position of an input object having touched or approached a display region of the display; and a controller configured to: control the display to display, at a first position in the display region, at least one first object image, of the plurality of images each for receiving a command for executing a corresponding predefined processing; when the input coordinate detected by the coordinate detector is a coordinate corresponding to one of the at least one first object image, execute a processing that is assigned to the one of the at least one first object image corresponding to the input coordinate detected by the coordinate detector, determine whether at least one second object image, which is different from the at least one first object image is to be displayed at the first position in the display region in place of the at least one first object when the coordinate detector detects a movement of the input object from a first input coordinate to toward a second input coordinate which is a coordinate indicating a position that the input object moved from the first input coordinate in a first direction; control the display to display the at least one second object image at the first position in place of the at least one first object image in response to the determining that the at least one second object image is to be displayed at the first position in pace of the at least one first object image; and in response to a detection of a release of the input object, detected by the coordinate detector, from the second input coordinate in the display region, control the display to repeatedly move the at least one second object image between a position located distant from the first position, respectively associated with each of the at least one second object image, in the first direction and a position distant from the first position.