OPERATION DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSOR PROVIDED WITH OPERATION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD IN THE OPERATION DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an operation device capable of improving the operability of a user.SOLUTION: An operation unit 120 is provided in an image forming apparatus 100 for executing corresponding processing in one operation mode selected among a plurality of operation modes by a user, and is an operation device including a touch panel display 130 including a display panel 132 and a touch panel 134 arranged by being overlapped on the display panel 132. The display panel 132 includes a task trigger area in which a plurality of software keys to be a plurality of function triggers common in the plurality of operation modes is displayed, and a CPU 300 arranges the plurality of software keys in the task trigger area such that the software keys to be a trigger of the same function are located at the same position even in the case that any operation mode is selected.