Patent ID: 8325354

Claim:
An image data processing apparatus, in which a job receiving section communicates with an external device and receives image data and control data for carrying out a job processing with respect to the image data so as to receive a job and a job processing section executes the job received by the job receiving section, said image data processing apparatus comprising: a display input section for displaying information in a screen and for allowing the screen to be operated so as to input an instruction; a job management table for managing, for each job, function information indicative of at least a reception time of the job and a content of the job; and a job information display control section for causing, with reference to the management table, the screen of the display input section to display an icon indicative of the presence of the job having been received along with the content of the job and for causing the screen to additionally display an information window disclosing information concerning the job corresponding to the icon when the icon is operated with the icon displayed, wherein when the job receiving section receives the job, the job information display control section causes the icon indicative of presence of the job having been received to be displayed on the screen on which nothing other than the icon indicative of the presence of the job is displayed; the job receiving section includes a plurality of job data receiving routes, the function information corresponding to each of the job data receiving routes is stored in the job management table, the job information display control section displays an icon of the function information corresponding to each of the job data receiving routes, and in a case of displaying the information window, the display control section displays the information window and moves the startup icons, being displayed, to a periphery of the information window with a positional relation of the startup icons kept.