Patent ID: 7913168
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A display control apparatus for causing a plurality of setting screens to be selectively displayed, which are respectively for performing settings for a plurality of functions capable of being executed by an image processing apparatus and on each of which a plurality of setting items for each of the functions can be displayed, the display control apparatus comprising: a processor configured to execute: a selection function determination unit to determine that a setting screen for which function among the plurality of functions has been selected; a frequency information acquisition unit to acquire information relating to use frequencies of the plurality of setting items for the plurality of image processing functions capable of being executed by the image processing apparatus; a display object management unit to cause setting items whose use frequencies exceed a specified threshold among the plurality of setting items for the plurality of functions capable of being executed by the image processing apparatus to become the setting items to be displayed in a specified display area of the setting screens; an item information acquisition unit to acquire information relating to, among the plurality of setting items relating to the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, the setting items to be displayed on the setting screen for the function; a setting menu displaying unit to display a setting menu to set whether a display position of each setting item is fixed; a display setting information acquisition unit to acquire display setting information, based on the content of setting performed using the setting menu, to regulate whether the display position of which setting item among the plurality of setting items to be displayed in the specified display area is to be fixed; and a control unit to display, based on the information acquired by the item information acquisition unit and the frequency information acquisition unit, and on the setting screen for the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, the setting item to be displayed with a high use frequency to be positioned at at least one side of a left side and an upper side in the specified display area, and to fix, based on the display setting information acquired by the display setting information acquisition unit and with respect to the setting item whose display position is set to be fixed among the setting items to be displayed in the specified display area, the display position of the setting item in the specified display area.