IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION SCREEN OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes a touch panel unit, a standard menu screen control portion, a shortcut menu screen output portion and a shortcut processing portion. In the image forming apparatus, when a shortcut call operation is performed, a control portion causes the touch panel unit to display a shortcut menu screen over a standard menu screen. The control portion adds a shortcut icon to the shortcut menu screen and store, into a storage portion, information indicating correspondence between the added icon and the standard menu screen. When the shortcut icon is operated, the control portion causes the touch panel unit to display the standard menu screen that is associated with the operated shortcut icon.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a touch panel unit including a panel which serves as both an operation portion and a screen display portion; a standard menu screen control portion configured to, in response to a selection operation performed on the panel, cause the panel to display a standard menu screen among a plurality of standard menu screens for image processing; a shortcut menu screen output portion configured to, when a shortcut call operation is performed on the panel that is displaying the standard menu screen, display a shortcut menu screen over the standard menu screen; and a shortcut processing portion configured to execute a process in response to an operation performed on the shortcut menu screen, wherein the shortcut call operation is a predetermined gesture operation performed on the panel that is displaying the standard menu screen, and the shortcut processing portion includes:
a shortcut icon addition processing portion configured to, when a predetermined icon addition operation is performed on the shortcut menu screen, add a shortcut icon to the shortcut menu screen and store first shortcut information into a first storage portion, the first shortcut information indicating correspondence between the added shortcut icon and the standard menu screen being displayed on the panel; anda first shortcut output portion configured to, when the shortcut icon is operated, cause the panel to display the standard menu screen that is associated with the operated shortcut icon, based on the first shortcut information.