Patent ID: 8767113

Claim:
A condition change unit for changing operating conditions of a device, comprising: a display section for displaying images; a touch panel provided on the display section; a detection section for detecting input operations to the touch panel; a change condition setting section for setting types of change conditions, based on a mode of the input operations detected by the detection section; an operation guide image display section for displaying guidance images, for setting specific parameters of the change conditions, on the display section, in accordance with the type of change condition that has been set; a parameter change section for changing parameters of the change condition based on an input operation to a screen on which the operation guidance operation images are displayed that has been detected by the detection section; a view-through type second display section for displaying images; and a control section for selecting whether to display on the display section, or to display on the second display section; wherein the operation image display section has a different display format for a case where the operation guide images are displayed on the display section, and a case where the operation guide images are displayed on the second display section.