Abstract: Disclosed is a processing apparatus, which makes it possible to make a cursor automatically move by employing a pointing device. The processing apparatus includes a control section and a processing section that implements processing under the controlling operations conducted by the control section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, image forming system and image forming method are shown. The image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding tray, an image forming unit, and a control unit. The sheet feeding tray stores and feeds a sheet. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet fed from the sheet feeding tray. The control unit controls the image forming unit to form an image including information regarding a sheet before changing when operation including changing of a sheet stored in the sheet feeding tray is performed or there is a necessity to change a sheet stored in the sheet feeding tray.

Abstract: A display method for displaying a schedule screen which indicates an execution reservation state of JOBS on a display section, the method including the step of displaying a part or the whole of information concerning two or more of the JOBs, by superimposing on the schedule screen, according to a display condition; and displaying, in cases where information which is required to be recognized by a user exists in the information displayed by superimposing, the information required to be recognized by the user on an uppermost layer to be visible.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet trays; an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet supplied by the sheet trays; and a display section which includes a display screen, upon which are displayed a first axis and a second axis, wherein sheet tray information identifying each of the plurality of sheet trays is displayed individually for each tray along the first axis, and information concerning the time period scheduled for use of each of the sheet trays is displayed along the second axis at a position along the first axis where the sheet tray information for the respective sheet tray is located.

Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image based on a job including image data and ticket information; a storage unit configured to store a stored job; an operation display unit configured to be operated and display; and a control unit configured to control at least the storage unit and the operation display unit, wherein, when the job is selected from the stored jobs stored in the storage unit, the control unit compares contents of current machine setting with the ticket information of the selected job and displays function display for changing the machine setting on the operation display unit together with warning when the ticket information includes setting which makes output with the contents of the current machine setting impossible.

Abstract: Disclosed is a processing apparatus, which makes it possible to make a cursor automatically move by employing a pointing device. The processing apparatus includes a control section and a processing section that implements processing under the controlling operations conducted by the control section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit which forms an image based on a JOB; a display operation unit which enables a display and an operation for the JOB; and a control unit which manages the JOB and controls the image forming unit and the display operation unit, wherein the control unit arranges a predetermined number of JOBs on one screen according to a reservation order to be output in the display operation unit, displays a list switched of a page or scrolled by an instructing operation of a user, updates the display of the displayed list, selects the JOB in the displayed list by the instructing operation of the user, executes the instructing operation for the selected JOB, and maintains at least the selected JOB displayed on the screen to be displayed on the screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of sheet trays; an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet supplied by the sheet trays; and a display section which includes a display screen, upon which are displayed a first axis and a second axis, wherein sheet tray information identifying each of the plurality of sheet trays is displayed individually for each tray along the first axis, and information concerning the time period scheduled for use of each of the sheet trays is displayed along the second axis at a position along the first axis where the sheet tray information for the respective sheet tray is located.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for executing a printing based on a job provided with job setting information, the apparatus includes: a display section which displays two or more job images on a screen, each of the job images representing each of two or more jobs; an operation section for changing a display scale of the two or more job images displayed on the display section; and a control section which controls to display the two or more job images having been displayed on the screen of the display section, as overlapped images in a same display area, based on an operation of changing the display scale in the screen, wherein the control section enables to select each of the overlapped job images displayed in the same display area on the screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit which forms an image based on a JOB; a display operation unit which enables a display and an operation for the JOB; and a control unit which manages the JOB and controls the image forming unit and the display operation unit, wherein the control unit arranges a predetermined number of JOBs on one screen according to a reservation order to be output in the display operation unit, displays a list switched of a page or scrolled by an instructing operation of a user, updates the display of the displayed list, selects the JOB in the displayed list by the instructing operation of the user, executes the instructing operation for the selected JOB, and maintains at least the selected JOB displayed on the screen to be displayed on the screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which executes jobs to form images, including: a job memory section which stores job information indicating setting contents of the jobs; a display section having a first region and a second region that never overlap; and a control section which controls contents to be displayed, wherein the control section controls to display a job list in the first region based on the job information, and also display a setting content of a job selected from the job list in the second region, while a function of an operation button is given to the setting content, wherein when the operation button is selected, by utilizing the setting content corresponding to the selected operation button as a search key, a job is extracted from the job list and displayed such that the extracted job and the other job can be distinguished.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section to perform image formation based on a plurality of jobs, including: a control section to allow a display section to display switching information showing that a paper feeding tray to be used in performing the job is to be switched, the switching information displayed before the plurality of jobs are performed by the image forming section.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus comprising a control section to display a job scheduling screen in a display section and a storage section to store tray-paper information relating to a paper of each of trays, and the control section specifies a tray or a paper to be used in each of the jobs and displays the reservation information for a length corresponding to the number of sheets of paper planed to be used in each of the jobs in the second axis at a position on the first axis corresponding to the tray or the paper which is specified and the control section determines whether a job having a stopping cause which stops at least a part of the image forming process is reserved or not, and the control section displays job information relating to the job having the stopping cause in the job scheduling screen when determining that the job having the stopping cause is reserved.

Abstract: A display method for displaying a schedule screen which indicates an execution reservation state of JOBS on a display section, the method including the step of displaying a part or the whole of information concerning two or more of the JOBs, by superimposing on the schedule screen, according to a display condition; and displaying, in cases where information which is required to be recognized by a user exists in the information displayed by superimposing, the information required to be recognized by the user on an uppermost layer to be visible.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for executing a printing based on a job provided with job setting information, the apparatus includes: a display section which displays two or more job images on a screen, each of the job images representing each of two or more jobs; an operation section for changing a display scale of the two or more job images displayed on the display section; and a control section which controls to display the two or more job images having been displayed on the screen of the display section, as overlapped images in a same display area, based on an operation of changing the display scale in the screen, wherein the control section enables to select each of the overlapped job images displayed in the same display area on the screen.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus comprising a control section to display a job scheduling screen in a display section and a storage section to store tray-paper information relating to a paper of each of trays, and the control section specifies a tray or a paper to be used in each of the jobs and displays the reservation information for a length corresponding to the number of sheets of paper planed to be used in each of the jobs in the second axis at a position on the first axis corresponding to the tray or the paper which is specified and the control section determines whether a job having a stopping cause which stops at least a part of the image forming process is reserved or not, and the control section displays job information relating to the job having the stopping cause in the job scheduling screen when determining that the job having the stopping cause is reserved.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including an image forming section to perform image formation based on a plurality of jobs, including: a control section to allow a display section to display switching information showing that a paper feeding tray to be used in performing the job is to be switched, the switching information displayed before the plurality of jobs are performed by the image forming section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display unit, a plurality of types of input units, an input unit recognizing unit that recognizes a type of input unit via which input is being performed, and a display control unit. If a function menu has been selected of the first screen via the input unit, the display control unit displays a second screen, on the display unit, for selecting an item in the function menu selected on the first screen. Herein, based on a type of input unit recognized by the input unit recognizing unit when the function menu was selected on the first screen, the display control unit displays the second screen that corresponds to the recognized input unit on the display unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a display section to display an operation screen having a plurality of buttons each of which shows each type of operation instruction, a first input section to input a selecting instruction of at least any one button among the buttons based on a pushed signal on the operation screen, a second input section to input the selecting instruction of the one button by a structure different from the first input section and a control section to make the display section display an operation supporting screen which supports to input the selecting instruction without finalizing an operation instruction indicated by the one button to which the selecting instruction is given when the selecting instruction is input by the first input section in the operation screen which is structured so as to assume that the selecting instruction of the one button is inputted by the second input section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for performing an image formation by synthesizing an additional image to image data, comprises: an image forming section that performs an image formation on a sheet; a display section that displays an additional image to be added to image data; and a control section that displays, on the display section, the additional image based on a position and a size of the additional image to be formed on the sheet to which the image formation is performed, and by a font same as a font of the image formation.