Image forming apparatus and operation controlling method of the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8994965-B2
Application number	US-201113163459-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2011
Priority date	Jun 22, 2010
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to improve the maneuverability and usability of the apparatus concerned. The apparatus includes: a display section to display a screen thereon; a controlling section to form a synthesized image in which position detecting symbols are synthesized with an image onto which the screen displayed on the display section is to be arranged; a storage section to store a table in which the keys and corresponding positions of the keys, arranged on the paper sheet, are correlated with each other, respectively; and a printing section to print the synthesized image onto the paper sheet. When acquiring positional information, the controlling section refers to the table so as to specify a specific key correlated with the positional information, and establishes a status of the image forming apparatus, being same as that established by designating the specific key from the screen.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a display displaying a setting-screen, selected by a user, from a plurality of setting-screens, each setting-screen being configured to set functions of the image forming apparatus;
a controller; and
a storage,
wherein the controller:
causes generation of a first image of the setting-screen selected by the user from the plurality of setting screens for setting the functions of the image forming apparatus,
caus…

Assignees

• Motosugi Toshihisa
• Konica Minolta Inc

Inventors

• Motosugi Toshihisa

Classifications

• G06K15/005 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0321

  Physics · mapped topic

• G03G15/502

  Physics · mapped topic