Patent ID: 8024385
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G06F,G09B

Abstract:
1. An electronic calculator comprising: a display unit; a calculation processing section configured to perform calculation processing according to user operations; a calculation screen display control section configured to control the display unit to display a calculation screen showing a calculation state that corresponds to the calculation processing performed by the calculation processing section; a base state setting section configured to set, as a base state, a calculation state corresponding to an arbitrary calculation screen in a state in which the arbitrary calculation screen is being displayed on the display unit; a base state storing section configured to store the base state that is set by the base state setting section together with the calculation screen corresponding to the base state; an operation pattern storing section configured to store a plurality of operation patterns, each comprising a series of user operations that are input after the base state was set by the base state setting section, such that the operation patterns are correlated with the base state; an operation pattern list display control section configured to control the display unit to display a calculation screen corresponding to the base state stored in the base state storing section, and to control the display unit to display a list of the operation patterns stored in the operation pattern storing section which correspond to the base state; and a guide display control section configured to control the display unit to display, as guide indications, an operation pattern that is selected by a user operation from among the operation patterns displayed on the display unit by the operation pattern list display control section.