Patent ID: 7458036

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a display that displays an image indicating a function and allows a user to instruct the image forming apparatus to perform the function by selecting the image; and a display arrangement control device that judges functions added to the image forming apparatus, that determines where to position images to be displayed in the display, each of the images to be displayed indicating a function which is judged to be added to the image forming apparatus, and that displays the images on the display according to the determined positioning, wherein a plurality of images are displayed in a first case, less than all of the plurality of images displayed in the first case are displayed in a second case, and the display arrangement control device determines the positioning so that at least one image is displayed in a position which is different in the first case than in the second case, and the display of the image indicating the function added to the image forming apparatus is determined according to mounting conditions of additional devices added to the image forming apparatus.