Patent ID: 8006198

Claim:
A display control device comprising: a selection information acquisition unit that acquires selection information representing which process mode has been selected from a plurality of process modes in which different processes are performed; a control unit that displays first display objects corresponding to set items related to the process mode selected, in a first display region on a screen, and second display objects corresponding to any process mode not selected, in a second display region narrower than the first display region on the screen, on the basis of the selection information acquired by the selection information acquisition unit; in which the first display region is composed of first to n-th substantially ring-shaped regions (n is 2 or a greater integer) that are concentric to one another, and the (x−1)th substantially ring-shaped region (x is 2 or a greater integer) is located within the x-th substantially ring-shaped region, which further comprises an importance-information acquisition unit that acquires information items representing the importance degrees of the first display objects to be displayed in the first display region, and in which the control unit displays first display objects, which are more important than the first display objects displayed in the x-th substantially ring-shaped region, in the (x−1)th substantially ring-shaped region; and at least one first display object for inputting operation instructions to designate the processing object in selected process mode is displayed in the innermost region of the first ring-shaped region.