Patent ID: 8804148
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: B41J,G03G,G06F

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus which includes a plurality of functions, the image forming apparatus comprising: a display section configured to display a plurality of button areas, which correspond to the plurality of functions respectively; a storage section configured to store a plurality of setting values, each of which is in relation to one of the plurality of functions; an input accepting section configured to accept an input to the display section; a coordinate detection section configured to detect an instruction coordinate which is inputted in the display section and is accepted by the input accepting section; a button display control section configured to assign each of the plurality of setting values, which is in relation to one of the plurality of functions and is stored in the storage section, to one of the plurality of button areas which corresponds to the one of the plurality of functions; and to display the plurality of button areas on the display section in a form which is distinguished from another area of the display section; a setting value display control section configured to display, on the display section, a group of setting values, among the plurality of setting values, which is assigned to a button area of the plurality of button areas, in a case that the instruction coordinate detected by the coordinate detection section is positioned in the button area and that an input form of the instruction coordinate accepted by the input accepting section is a predetermined first form; a setting change section configured to change a predetermined setting value, of the group of setting values, stored in the storage section, in a case that after the setting value display control section displays the group of setting values on the display section and further that the input accepting section accepts an input of change operation to instruct a change of the predetermined setting value; a first operation execution section configured to make the image forming apparatus execute a function corresponding to the button area, based on the group of setting values, in a case that after the setting value display control section displays the group of setting values on the display section and further that the input accepting section accepts an input of start operation to instruct a start of operation of the image forming apparatus; and a second operation execution section configured to make the image forming apparatus execute the function corresponding to the button area, based on the group of setting values, in a case that the instruction coordinate detected by the coordinate detection section is positioned in the button area and further that the input form accepted by the input accepting section is a predetermined second form different from the predetermined first form; wherein in a case that the coordinate detection section detects the instruction coordinate in the button area and then the coordinate detection section newly detects another instruction coordinate in the button area, the setting change section changes the predetermined setting value to a new setting value based on a characteristic of the another instruction coordinate, and the second operation execution section makes the image forming apparatus execute the function based on the new setting value; and wherein in a case that after the coordinate detection section detects the instruction coordinate in the button area and further that the instruction coordinate is moved to the another instruction coordinate in the button area and still further that the another instruction coordinate is not detected any more by the coordinate detection section, the setting change section changes the predetermined setting value to the new setting value based on a length from the instruction coordinate to the another instruction coordinate.