Image forming apparatus and screen operation method

摘要

Provided is an image forming apparatus mainly including a recognition part, a first determination part, and a second determination part. The recognition part recognizes the plural characters when a user performs a first operation tracing a sequence of plural characters out of the character group included in the screen displayed on the display part by bringing an indicator into contact with the touch panel part. The first determination part determines whether or not the plural characters recognized by the recognition part match with any of predetermined plural terms. The second determination part determines whether or not a user performs a second operation that is gesture different from the first operation by bringing the indicator into contact with the touch panel after the first operation is performed.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a display part; a touch panel part that is arranged on the display part; a display control part that causes the display part to display a screen including a character group associated with an operation of the image forming apparatus; a recognition part that recognizes a sequence of plural characters when a user performs a first operation tracing the plural characters out of the character group included in the screen displayed on the display part by bringing an indicator into contact with the touch panel part; a first determination part that determines whether or not the plural characters recognized by the recognition part match with any of predetermined plural terms; and a second determination part that determines whether or not the user performs a second operation that is a gesture different from the first operation by bringing the indicator into contact with the touch panel after the first operation is performed, wherein the display control part causes the display part to display a predefined screen correlated with terms matched with the plural characters out of the plural terms when the first determination part determines that the plural characters match with any of the plural terms, and when the second determination part determines that the second operation is performed.