Abstract: An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided. The settings for each of the items are indicated in each file, and the file is dividable into sets of separate data having a predetermined size or smaller. The apparatus includes a user interface configured to allow a user to choose target separate data from among the sets of separate data of each of the files; a selection portion configured to set, at selected data, the sets of separate data of a file having the target separate data among the files; and an application processing portion configured to perform application processing for applying the settings to the second processing device by using, among the sets of separate data of each of the files, the sets of separate data set at the selected data.

Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an information processing apparatus accepts an input through a keyboard selectively displayed on the touch panel of an operation terminal from among a plurality of keyboards configured with software key groups different from each other. The MFP displays a setting screen including a plurality of input areas on the touch panel. When the setting screen appears, the MFP acquires the type of the selectively displayed keyboard and decides an input accepting area that accepts an input through the selectively displayed keyboard, from among the plurality of input areas.

Abstract: The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a communication terminal. When it is detected that an operation is being performed onto an input unit of the image forming apparatus while the image forming apparatus is connected to the communication terminal, the image forming apparatus is configured to perform a first notification to notify the communication terminal that an operation is being performed onto the input unit. When the image forming apparatus performs the first notification, the communication terminal is configured to perform a second notification corresponding to the first notification in the communication terminal.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a communication terminal. The image forming apparatus communicates with the communication terminal and includes an operation panel that displays a first display screen and accepts an operation of inputting information, and a hardware processor. The communication terminal communicates with the image forming apparatus, displays a second display screen, and accepts input of information and includes a central processing unit (CPU) that notifies the input of the information to the image forming apparatus. The communication terminal transmits the information input in the input device to the image forming apparatus, and the hardware processor determines whether the status of the operation panel is a status that accepts the operation, and upon the status of the operation panel being the status that accepts the operation, switches the first display screen to a screen that accepts the operation.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit capable of displaying a setting screen having an input area for an input value and a keypad screen having soft keys on the same screen; a determiner configured to determine an acceptable input value range of the input area displayed on the display unit; and a display controller configured to display only soft keys on the keypad screen, wherein the keypad screen has a fixed area in which the soft key is fixedly displayed and a variable area in which the soft key is variably displayed, the soft keys are classified into a common key and an individual key other than the common key, and the display controller displays the common key in the fixed area of the keypad screen and the individual key in the variable area of the keypad screen out of the soft keys.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display and a touch panel, and is provided with a normal mode in which processing is performed every time operation is performed with the touch panel and a play back mode in which processing is performed on the basis of recording of the operation, and the image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a gesture represented by a series of touch events, store gesture log data and touch event log data to a storage unit, and determine display control processing. In the normal mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture or an object. In the play back mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture log data or the touch event log data. The determined display control processing is executed.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a communication terminal. The image forming apparatus communicates with the communication terminal and includes an operation panel that displays a first display screen and accepts an operation of inputting information, and a hardware processor. The communication terminal communicates with the image forming apparatus, displays a second display screen, and accepts input of information and includes a central processing unit (CPU) that notifies the input of the information to the image forming apparatus. The communication terminal transmits the information input in the input device to the image forming apparatus, and the hardware processor determines whether the status of the operation panel is a status that accepts the operation, and upon the status of the operation panel being the status that accepts the operation, switches the first display screen to a screen that accepts the operation.

Abstract: The image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a communication terminal. When it is detected that an operation is being performed onto an input unit of the image forming apparatus while the image forming apparatus is connected to the communication terminal, the image forming apparatus is configured to perform a first notification to notify the communication terminal that an operation is being performed onto the input unit. When the image forming apparatus performs the first notification, the communication terminal is configured to perform a second notification corresponding to the first notification in the communication terminal.

Abstract: An apparatus for selectively applying settings for each of items set in a first processing device to a second processing device is provided. The settings for each of the items are indicated in each file, and the file is dividable into sets of separate data having a predetermined size or smaller. The apparatus includes a user interface configured to allow a user to choose target separate data from among the sets of separate data of each of the files; a selection portion configured to set, at selected data, the sets of separate data of a file having the target separate data among the files; and an application processing portion configured to perform application processing for applying the settings to the second processing device by using, among the sets of separate data of each of the files, the sets of separate data set at the selected data.

Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus includes an access portion that enables access to an information processing apparatus; an image obtaining portion that obtains an image of a character input tool, a transmitter that transmits the image of the character input tool to the information processing apparatus; a receiver that receives touched key information from the information processing apparatus, and a character identification portion that identifies a character on the basis of the touched key information received by the receiver, wherein the image obtaining portion obtains a different image of the character input tool upon each change to a screen appearance of the character input tool or upon each receipt of the touched key information and the transmitter transmits the different image of the character input tool and character information to the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus includes an access portion that enables access to an information processing apparatus; an image obtaining portion that obtains an image of a character input tool, a transmitter that transmits the image of the character input tool to the information processing apparatus; a receiver that receives touched key information from the information processing apparatus, and a character identification portion that identifies a character on the basis of the touched key information received by the receiver, wherein the image obtaining portion obtains a different image of the character input tool upon each change to a screen appearance of the character input tool or upon each receipt of the touched key information and the transmitter transmits the different image of the character input tool and character information to the information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A contact information transfer system includes an image processing apparatus and a portable terminal apparatus; the portable terminal apparatus includes a cooperation portion that launches a second application for organizing contact information upon access to the image processing apparatus being enabled by a first application for accessing the image processing apparatus, the contact information including contact identification information and points of contact connected to the respective contact identification information, a contact information obtaining portion that obtains the contact information, and a transfer portion that transfers the contact information to the image processing apparatus; the image processing apparatus includes a receiving portion that receives the contact information, a display, and a display controller that displays the contact information on the display by converting it into a data format supported on the display.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a display and one or a plurality of processors that executes the following processes: determining one of a plurality of screen switch groups as a search target, the plurality of screen switch groups each being composed of a plurality of multi-level screens, the multi-level screens to be displayed on the display; obtaining strings by searching the determined screen switch group, the strings each having a keyword specified by the user, the strings representing setting options to be set on the multi-level screens, the multi-level screens composing the determined screen switch group; and displaying the setting options on the display in a manner allowing the user to select one of the setting options, the setting options being represented by the obtained strings, and then displaying a screen for setting one of the setting options upon the one setting option being selected by the user.

Abstract: A set value input device, comprising: a display in which a screen having at least one set value input area can be displayed; a touch detection portion; a first input portion which is displayed when the touch detection portion detects the set value input area is touched and which is to input a set value in the set value input area; a judging portion for judging, whether a second input portion is in an enabled state or in a disabled state, the second input portion being operable of the set value input screen, and inputting a set value when the set value input area is selected; and a control portion which disables the first input portion, makes one of the set value input areas selected if the second input portion is enabled, and which makes all the set value input areas non-selected if the second input portion is disabled.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit displaying a screen which accepts a touch operation on the information processing apparatus, a touch operation unit accepting the touch operation, a touch event issuance unit issuing one or more touch events respectively corresponding to one or more touch operations on the touch operation unit, and a gesture control unit capable of performing each of a mode for performing corresponding processing based on the one or more touch events issued by the touch event issuance unit, and a reproduction mode for reproducing the touch event stored beforehand. The gesture control unit is configured to add an operation image indicating the touch operation corresponding to the stored touch event, to a region associated with the touch event in the reproduction mode, and to cause the display unit to display the operation image.

Abstract: A first image forming apparatus includes a first display and a first touch panel, calculates a location-on-display-surface which indicates a position, on a first display surface of the first display, corresponding to a first touched position on the first touch panel based on first data which shows a positional relationship between the first display surface and the first touch panel, and generates log which indicates, for each time, the calculated location-on-display-surface. A second image forming apparatus includes a second display and a second touch panel, calculates a corresponding position, in the second touch panel, which corresponds to the location-on-display-surface indicated in the log based on second data which shows a positional relationship between a second display surface of the second display and the second touch panel, and displays, on the second display, a screen by using the corresponding position as a second touched position on the second touch panel.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit displaying a screen which accepts a touch operation on the information processing apparatus, a touch operation unit accepting the touch operation, a touch event issuance unit issuing one or more touch events respectively corresponding to one or more touch operations on the touch operation unit, and a gesture control unit capable of performing each of a mode for performing corresponding processing based on the one or more touch events issued by the touch event issuance unit, and a reproduction mode for reproducing the touch event stored beforehand. The gesture control unit is configured to add an operation image indicating the touch operation corresponding to the stored touch event, to a region associated with the touch event in the reproduction mode, and to cause the display unit to display the operation image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display and a touch panel, and is provided with a normal mode in which processing is performed every time operation is performed with the touch panel and a play back mode in which processing is performed on the basis of recording of the operation, and the image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to determine a gesture represented by a series of touch events, store gesture log data and touch event log data to a storage unit, and determine display control processing. In the normal mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture or an object. In the play back mode, the display control processing is determined on the basis of the gesture log data or the touch event log data. The determined display control processing is executed.

Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an information processing apparatus accepts an input through a keyboard selectively displayed on the touch panel of an operation terminal from among a plurality of keyboards configured with software key groups different from each other. The MFP displays a setting screen including a plurality of input areas on the touch panel. When the setting screen appears, the MFP acquires the type of the selectively displayed keyboard and decides an input accepting area that accepts an input through the selectively displayed keyboard, from among the plurality of input areas.

Abstract: A set value input device, comprising: a display in which a screen having at least one set value input area can be displayed; a touch detection portion; a first input portion which is displayed when the touch detection portion detects the set value input area is touched and which is to input a set value in the set value input area; a judging portion for judging, whether a second input portion is in an enabled state or in a disabled state, the second input portion being operable of the set value input screen, and inputting a set value when the set value input area is selected; and a control portion which disables the first input portion, makes one of the set value input areas selected if the second input portion is enabled, and which makes all the set value input areas non-selected if the second input portion is disabled.