Patent ID: 8879078

Claim:
A display control apparatus for controlling a display content of a display section of a multifunction peripheral that is communicably connected to the display control apparatus, the display section being included by the multifunction peripheral or disposed in vicinity of the multifunction peripheral, the multifunction peripheral having (i) a standard function of controlling one or a plurality of apparatus functions of the multifunction peripheral with use of a standard application operating in the multifunction peripheral and (ii) an expanded function of controlling said one or a plurality of apparatus functions of the multifunction peripheral with use of an external application operating in another apparatus communicably connected to the multifunction peripheral, and the multifunction peripheral including an operation input section for accepting operation input from a user of the multifunction peripheral, the display control apparatus comprising a manual display control section that controls display, on the display section, of both of an operation manual of the standard application and an operation manual of the external application, the manual display control section causing the display section to display an operation manual of an application for which an operation is being inputted by the user via the operation input section out of the standard application and the external application.