Patent ID: 8873077
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus having hardware resources including an operation accepting portion to accept an instruction operation designated by an operation user from among a plurality of kinds of operations, and a control portion to control said hardware resources, said control portion comprising: said first application executing portion including a post-transition application determining portion operable, in the case where said operation accepting portion accepts a process switching operation predetermined, besides said common operation, from among the plurality of operations acceptable by the operation accepting portion, to determine one of said plurality of second application execution portions that should be changed to the currently selected state next, on the basis of the one of said plurality of second application executing portions being set in the currently selected state and on the basis of said accepted process switching operation, said current task setting portion setting said second application executing portion determined by said post-transition application determining portion to the currently selected state.