Patent ID: 9651906
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G03G,H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a display including a single-digit seven-segment display device capable of displaying only numbers from 0 to 9 and a predetermined alphabetical character and another display device configured to display a predetermined math symbol; a first key for incrementing a number to be displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device; a second key for decrementing a number to be displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device; a third key for instructing printing; a printer that performs printing based on image data; a memory that stores a set of instructions; and a processor that executes the instructions to: cause the single-digit seven-segment display device to display any number from 1 to 9 based on the first key or the second key having been pressed, set, where the third key is pressed with any of the numbers from 1 to 9 being displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device, a single-digit figure displayed as the number of copies to print, and cause the printer to perform printing, cause, where the second key is pressed when a numeral 1 is being displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device, the single-digit seven-segment display device to display the predetermined alphabetical character, and shift the image processing apparatus to a registration mode for registering a number as the predetermined alphabetical character, wherein, where the image processing apparatus operates in the registration mode, the processor is able to cause the single-digit seven-segment display device to display any of the numbers from 1 to 9 and concurrently cause the another display device to display the predetermined math symbol, with two-digit figures being indicated while the predetermined math symbol is being displayed, the two-digit figures including a numeral 1 as a tens place digit and a number being displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device as ones place digit, wherein, as the predetermined alphabetical character, a single-digit figure displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device, or the two-digit figures indicated by the predetermined math symbol displayed on the another display device and the number displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device are registered, and wherein, where the third key is pressed with the predetermined alphabetical character being displayed on the single-digit seven-segment display device, the processor sets a number, being either the single-digit figure or the two-digit figures, registered as the predetermined alphabetical character as the number of copies to print, and causes the printer to perform printing.