摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user interface which facilitates navigation through various operating screens, particularly for temporal users who have less experience of the user interface. <P>SOLUTION: A user interface for a printer (10), comprising a display (16), an input system (12) and a control unit (14) adapted to present on the display (16) a plurality of operating screens (36-52) in accordance with navigation instructions input via the input system (12), wherein one complete operating screen is presented at one time and wherein the control unit (14) is adapted to assign to each operating screen a fixed location on a two dimensional manifold (54) and, upon a navigation instruction, to animate a movement of the manifold (54) relative to the display (16), so as to show the selected operating screen on the display. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT</p> |