Patent ID: 8314969
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a processor; and a storage device to store computer programmed instructions which when activated by the processor cause the processor to operate as a specially programmed processor, the processor configured to: execute a multi-application in which a plurality of applications is combined, each of the plurality of applications configured to input, process, and output image data; display, when a user enters settings for each of the plurality of applications, an application setting screen including an input-setting-item display area to enter an input-setting item that influences an input operation of the inputting and an output-setting-item display area to enter an output-setting item that influences at least one of a processing operation of the processing and an output operation of the outputting; display a multi-application screen including a feedback display area that displays information containing contents of the input-setting item and the output setting item entered for the inputting, the processing, and the outputting of each of the plurality of applications; identify, when a content of at least one of the input setting item entered for the inputting and the output setting item input for at least one of the processing and the outputting is changed for one application of the plurality of applications, another application for which a content of at least one of the input setting item input for the inputting and the output setting item entered for at least one of the processing and the outputting is changed by the setting change for the one application; identify a difference before and after the change in the content of the at least one of the input setting item and the output setting item of another application identified by the identifying the another application in response to a difference being present; and switch a display content of the feedback display area in accordance with the difference identified by the identifying of the difference, to display setting-change-influence information on effect of the setting change for the one application on the another application, by displaying a content of the difference in response to the difference being identified by the identifying of the difference, and displaying that no difference is identified in response to the difference not being identified by the identifying of the difference.