Electronic apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016320928-A1
Application number	US-201615134239-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Apr 20, 2016
Priority date	Apr 28, 2015
Publication date	Nov 3, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a display, a function setting circuit, a switching control circuit, and a simple menu creation control circuit. The simple menu creation control circuit creates, when it is determined by the switching control circuit that a number of times of selection is greater than or equal to a set number or an elapsed time is greater than or equal to a set time, a first simple menu for use in display on the display, the first simple menu being obtained by eliminating, from the plurality of operation menu items, an operation menu item corresponding to a function whose number of times of selection by a user is greater than or equal to a set number.

First claim

1 . An electronic apparatus comprising:
a display that selectably displays a plurality of operation menu items; a function setting circuit that is capable of receiving selection of a specific operation menu item from among the plurality of operation menu items on the display and setting a specific function among a plurality of functions; a switching control circuit that determines whether, without the specific function being set, a number of times of selection of the operation menu item is greater than or equal to a set number or an elapsed time since start of selection of the operation menu item is greater than or equal to a set time; and a simple menu creation control circuit that creates, when it is determined by the switching control circuit that the number of times of selection is greater than or equal to the set number or the elapsed time is greater than or equal to the set time, a first simple menu for use in display on the display, the first simple menu being obtained by eliminating, from the plurality of operation menu items, an operation menu item corresponding to a function whose number of times of selection by a user is greater than or equal to a set number.

2 . The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the display displays a plurality of operation menu items on each of menu screens of a plurality of hierarchical levels, the function setting circuit receives selection of the operation menu item for the specific function in a hierarchical order, and during creation of the first simple menu, the simple menu creation control circuit eliminates an operation menu item corresponding to a function whose number of times of selection by the user is greater than or equal to the set number from the plurality of operation menu items on the menu screen of a first hierarchical level of the hierarchical levels.

3 . The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the switching control circuit determines whether a number of uses of the electronic apparatus by the user is less than or equal to a set number or an elapsed time since the last use of the electronic apparatus is greater than or equal to a set time, and, if the number of uses of the electronic apparatus is less than or equal to the set number or the elapsed time since the last use thereof is greater than or equal to the set time, the switching control circuit causes the simple menu creation control circuit to create a second simple menu obtained by eliminating, from the plurality of operation menu items, an operation menu item corresponding to a function whose number of uses by all users is less than or equal to a set number.

4 . The electronic apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein
if the number of uses of the electronic apparatus is greater than the set number or the elapsed time since the last use thereof is less than the set time, the switching control circuit determines whether the number of times of selection of the operation menu item is greater than or equal to the set number or the elapsed time since start of selection of the operation menu item is greater than or equal to the set time.

5 . The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an age information acquisition circuit that acquires age information of the user; and a user determination circuit that causes, when an age of the user that corresponds to the acquired age information is less than or equal to a set lower limit age or greater than or equal to a set upper limit age, the simple menu creation control circuit to create a second simple menu obtained by eliminating, from the plurality of operation menu items, an operation menu item corresponding to a function whose number of uses by all users is less than or equal to a set number.

6 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an operation screen display program for causing a computer to perform:
selectably displaying a plurality of operation menu items; receiving selection of a specific operation menu item from among a plurality of operation menu items displayed by the displaying, and setting a specific function among a plurality of functions; determining whether, without the specific function being set, a number of times of selection of the operation menu item is greater than or equal to a set number or an elapsed time since start of selection of the operation menu item is greater than or equal to a set time; and, when it is determined that the number of times of selection is greater than or equal to the set number or the elapsed time is greater than or equal to the set time, creating a first simple menu for use in the displaying, the first simple menu being obtained by eliminating, from the plurality of operation menu items, an operation menu item corresponding to a function whose number of uses by a user is greater than or equal to a set number.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Sato Yasuhide
• Arai Yoshihiko
• Moritani Yuri

Classifications

• G06F3/0482 Primary

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title