DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME

• Main Author: ARAKAWA HIROKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 07.09.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve convenience for a user in returning to the details of a previously changed setting from the details of the current setting.SOLUTION: A display input device comprises: an operation display part that, when receiving a home return operation while displaying a setting screen, displays a home screen in place of the setting screen; a control part; and a storage part. When the home return operation is performed while the setting screen is displayed, the control part stores, in the storage part, change history information indicating an object item that is a setting item in which the details of the setting are changed and the details of the setting of the object item after the change and resets the details of the setting of the object item, and when a first operation is performed while the home screen is displayed, the control part changes the details of the setting of the object item to the details of the setting indicated in the change history information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8 【課題】現在の設定内容を前回変更した設定内容に戻すときのユーザーの利便性を向上させる。【解決手段】表示入力装置は、設定画面の表示中にホーム復帰操作を受け付けると、設定画面に代えてホーム画面を表示する操作表示部と、制御部と、記憶部と、を備え、設定画面の表示中にホーム復帰操作が行われたとき、制御部は、設定内容が変更された設定項目である対象項目および対象項目の変更後の設定内容を示す変更履歴情報を記憶部に記憶させてから、対象項目の設定内容をリセットし、ホーム画面の表示中に第１操作が行われたとき、制御部は、対象項目の設定内容を変更履歴情報で示される設定内容に変更する。【選択図】図８