DISPLAY OPERATION DEVICE ALLOCATING A PLURALITY OF FUNCTIONS TO A KEY, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF RECEIVING USER OPERATIONS

摘要

A display operation device has a display-integrated operation panel with a display screen, on which a monochrome copy start key and a color copy start key are displayed. When black-toner-out or color-toner-out occurs, on the monochrome copy start key and the color copy start key, another UI component such as black-toner-out key and color-toner-out key is displayed. Such a UI component is displayed at the display position of the monochrome copy start key and the color copy start key, being superposed on these keys.

主权项

1. A display operation device, comprising:
a display-integrated operation panel having a display screen; a first UI component display device displaying a first user interface (UI) component image on said display screen; a process activating device, responsive to a user operation of said first UI component displayed on said display screen by said first UI component display device, for activating a process associated with the first UI component; and a second UI component display device, responsive to occurrence of a predetermined condition related to the process activated in association with said first UI component by said process activating device, for displaying a second UI component on said display screen; wherein said second UI component is displayed at a position of display of said first UI component, to cover said first UI component.