Patent ID: 9116757
Filing Date: 2015-08-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A data processing apparatus, comprising: a memory storing computer executable sections; and a processor configured to execute the following computer executable sections stored in the memory: an indicator storing section which stores and manages, for each of a plurality of applications, plural types of instructive information which is acceptable during execution of an application and plural types of indicators representing the instructive information such that the plural types of instructive information and the plural types of indicators are associated with each other; a determination section which determines an indicator arbitrarily specified by a user operation from an output medium where the indicators corresponding to the plural types of instructive information acceptable by a currently executed application have been outputted in an array; a selection section which selects, based on the indicator determined by the determination section, instructive information corresponding to the indicator with reference to the indicator storing section; and a control section which controls the currently executed application to perform an operation in accordance with the instructive information selected by the selection section, wherein the determination section determines which indicator has been specified, by analyzing an image photographed by an imaging section which is showing a situation where an arbitrary indicator has been specified by a user operation from a paper medium on which the indicators are printed in an array or a display medium on which the indicators are displayed in an array.